03/08/2020
Thank you very much to BluPrint for this new house feature. This 300-square meter home for a young couple and their son sits on a funnel-shaped site and follows its natural terrain. The structure is set back 10 meters from the narrow street frontage to allow width and privacy, and generous openings in its sculpted form allow views of the existing mature trees that flank the property in the front and rear. "It is quite simply responsible, reactive architecture. In this day and age of uncertainty, what with a pandemic ravaging the globe and an all but certain recession on the horizon, cavernous luxury homes with acres of unused spaces and rooms, built more as showpieces than for actual use, should be a thing of the past."
Micaela Benedicto’s taut geometries, honest materiality, and no-nonsense programming bring surprising lightness and versatility to a young family’s first home
