Mountain Shore
Categories
Architecture
Collaborators
Solo Project
Material
Digital
Keywords
Ideal Dwelling Mountain Site Distributed Living Topography
Year
2018
The project began with a simple question: what might an ideal dwelling be when living is understood not only as shelter, but as a relationship with terrain, distance, and time? Rather than defining the house through efficiency or compactness alone, I imagined dwelling as something slower and more spatially extended, where movement between parts of the house becomes part of everyday life.
The project began with a simple question: what might an ideal dwelling be when living is understood not only as shelter, but as a relationship with terrain, distance, and time? Rather than defining the house through efficiency or compactness alone, I imagined dwelling as something slower and more spatially extended, where movement between parts of the house becomes part of everyday life.
The mountainous site became the primary driver of the design. Instead of flattening the terrain or forcing a single building onto it, the project works with the contours by placing a series of volumes at different elevations. These elements are connected through paths, terraces, and transitions that allow the dwelling to unfold gradually across the landscape. This distributed organisation creates multiple relationships between interior, exterior, horizon, and ground.
The mountainous site became the primary driver of the design. Instead of flattening the terrain or forcing a single building onto it, the project works with the contours by placing a series of volumes at different elevations. These elements are connected through paths, terraces, and transitions that allow the dwelling to unfold gradually across the landscape. This distributed organisation creates multiple relationships between interior, exterior, horizon, and ground.
The project imagines the house as a place of retreat and heightened perception. The architecture is quiet, heavy, and restrained, allowing light, shadow, material presence, and the surrounding landscape to shape the atmosphere. Rather than presenting the ideal home as a complete or luxurious object, Mountain Edge proposes it as a way of living with separation, pause, and a more attentive relationship to the environment.
The project imagines the house as a place of retreat and heightened perception. The architecture is quiet, heavy, and restrained, allowing light, shadow, material presence, and the surrounding landscape to shape the atmosphere. Rather than presenting the ideal home as a complete or luxurious object, Mountain Edge proposes it as a way of living with separation, pause, and a more attentive relationship to the environment.
