Incredible and Sustainable House – S.A Residence – Shatotto

The world population is growing fast. Cities are inflating and sites became expensive and small creating problems such as privacy. Design a house in a small site became a challenge and more often we see new houses design looking like a castle. The house now closes itself and the external walls now act like a fence wall. The project bellow is an example (in a big proportion) of what is possible to do to keep the privacy when is  design a house. The same example can be used for sites located on busy roads as it is possible to close the house to the noise side and open it internally. The shatoko house has used the swimming pool and the ponds to decorate and entertain the ambient but also with an area to cool the air and help to keep the house cooled. Amazing design and very well built.

 

Architects: Shatotto
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 20,667 sq ft
Photographs: Daniele Domenicali

 

In the current trend of real estate development, this residence has been a challenge particularly placing a water court as swimming pool in the middle of the house, a surely difficult task to ensure privacy. As a result, an introverted design has been adopted.
 
The south and the southeast have been designed to bring in cool breeze during the hot humid summer and the warmth of the sun during winter. The center “water court” acts as a natural exhaust, which flows out the hot air and makes the middle court a solace. http://www.shatotto.com/shatotto-details.html?id=19
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This House is a Real Achitecture – Working with the Local building regulations

Maison L / Christian Pottgiesser Architectures possible

The architect paper on the design of a house is to combine clients desires with budget, local council requirements and building codes. Sometimes, a lot of nice ideas can not be used in a project because doesn’t comply in one of those instances.  This house is a real architecture in practice. The architect thought creatively about the building planning restrictions and has designed an amazing house with 5 private areas for each one of the family members.

Little tower emerging from earth

Architects: Christian Pottgiesser Architectures possible 

Location: Yvelines, France 

Project Team: Christian Pottgiesser, Pascale Thomas Pottgiesser Completion: 2011 Area: 870 sqm house; 4,850 sqm garden 

 Photographs: George Dupin

Clean design

Maison L « A house as a small town » Less than half an hour’s drive west from Paris city center, designed as an extension of a private residence to an 18th-century structure, sought to provide every family member with a private realm. The roughly 5000 m2 plot of old trees called for a project that would leave the spacious ground predominantly untouched.

Light form the roof

The design foresaw an amorphous plinth storey with curved stone walls heaped up with earth and used as a general living area. Local building regulations only allow one single building with a gabled or hipped roof. However, in exceptional cases, flat roofs, as long as they do not exceed 25m2 each (e.g. : garages), can be provided. Thus, projecting above the acessible planted roof five towers like volumes have been argued and actually implemented. Positioned to frame a specific perspective of the site, each “tower”  houses a dressing room and storage space (ground floor), bathroom (1 st floor) and a bedroom (2nd floor). 

Skylight

                  

Framed windows to the amazing view

Carved on the landscape

House and landscape are intimately interwoven, boundaries between indoors and outdoors are blurred: The south-eastern facade emerges out of a complex topography between the house and its landscape. Carved towards every entrance in the glazing the river-bed-shaped, undulating terrain distorts, blending the construction into nature.

Roof sculpture

Abstracted entry

Ground floor is two meter below surface

Family common area

Skylights are all over the place

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