Selected Project
HS-house
2017
Project
Architecture in context
- Location
- Year
- 2017
- Type
- Unbuilt
A Courtyard House Defined by the Control of Views and Space
The site is located within a privileged residential setting adjacent to a public park. While the surrounding greenery and openness offer the potential to enrich everyday domestic life, the proximity of a public space frequented by an unspecified number of people requires a carefully calibrated relationship between the dwelling and its exterior environment.
The project was developed around the proposition that the quality of architecture may be determined by the manner in which visual relationships and spatial conditions are controlled.
The house is organized around an internal courtyard, which screens views from the surrounding context while introducing light, air, sky, and the presence of vegetation into the interior. The courtyard is not conceived merely as an enclosed outdoor space. Rather, it functions as a mediating zone through which the environment of the park is selected, moderated, and transformed into a condition appropriate to domestic life.
Walls and openings are therefore treated not simply as elements of enclosure, but as architectural devices that determine what is revealed, what is concealed, and to what extent adjacent spaces are allowed to remain continuous. Through the precise calibration of sightlines, aperture dimensions, distances between interior and exterior, and the relationships among individual spaces, the project seeks to construct a residential environment in which enclosure and openness, as well as publicness and privacy, coexist.
The house neither opens itself unconditionally toward the park nor withdraws completely from its surroundings. Instead, it selectively edits its relationship with the external environment. By regulating the density of visual and spatial connections, the courtyard house preserves the richness of the site while establishing a quiet and autonomous interior world.