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facing the pacific ocean and totally surrounded by nature, the house offers a retreat among the jungles of oaxaca.
treading lightly on the landscape, the building cantilevers out 27 meters to a point 18 meters above the terrain below.
franck bohbot traveled to richard neutra's VDL research house II and documented it, capturing two generations of architectural experimentation.
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the micro-hotel room is enclosed by a tiny topography of stepping terraces.
M DiBenedetto … I guess u writing from US hehe where not even the rainwater can b collected. All over the world at least in the south hemisphere rivers are free and belong to nature including us. But great project thou.
I just realized that I totally missed the mention of the River nearby. Certainly that’s a great source of water if the property owner has rights to take water from the river.
Ron Smith makes a great point. I’m trying to imagine other options for rain water collection. I can only think of laying down a surface over earth on the back side of the cabin increasing the surface area. Is there a well on the property? It doesn’t look like municipal water would run out there.
What’s the year ’round humidity like in Victoria? Another idea would be incorporating an Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) as part of the structure. A friend of mine in San Francisco Bay Area is CEO of Ecoloblue.com. They manufacture (in China) AWGs from home/office size to industrial size (up to 5000 liters a day). An AWG might provide another option to making this structure self-sustaining.
I love the simplicity and opens of the design and can easily see having one ourselves once we move back to Australia.
Tiny roof area.for rain collection in a landscape as dry as Victoria. “becomes part of the landscape’ is literally true but it certainly doesn’t blend into it..
A heck of a lot of shots of the countryside.
Makes sense for “for a client who spends a lot of time overseas” …he comes home to a hotel suite in the bush. I would bet that most visiting designboom would require a studio or workshop 2X the space this provides.
There appears enough living room for one. It would have been nice to see the floor plan.. I get suspicious when some major detail is left off and replaced by a pretty picture.
Jim