Fort Lola / visiondivision

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Our friends from visiondivision sent us this interesting project. A Swedish family wanted a dream house in the south of that at the same time could be turned into an invisible fort when the client is not there. Passing the house on the nearby road one will only see a garage. If you would accidentally walk pass the hidden garden you will see a façade with a flower patterned mesh.

The client will experience a totally different house. Inside the garage there is a spiral staircase inside a steel cylinder leading down to a big living room, and as the mesh is flipped into sun protecting panes, the panoramic view towards the surrounding mountains will appear from all the social rooms and the bedrooms. The bathrooms are located towards the hill and will have a cave-like appearance.

More images after the break.

 
 
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helmet says:

nice collage

 
# April 21, 2009 at 21:32
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Lucas León Fernanadez says:

Hi, well is a very insteresing project, pretty original, and the pictures are very nice…
well congratulation for the sucsses of your website…I read about u guys today morning in “el mercurio” when i was in the bus of the school…and i felt very atraccted to the read cause i wanna be an architec just like u and see stuffs like this one is pretty cool for me cause it helps me to know more about my future and all that..so thank u
bye!!

 
# April 21, 2009 at 21:47
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INawe says:

Great idea and provacative collages. I will only say that an owner of a house like this probably wouldn’t own a porsche gt3 and 3 crotch rockets. I’m not even going to say how I feel about the four rifles. ;)

And although spiral staircases look pretty they are really unpractical and really annoying to use. And in the section why wouldn’t you undulate or at least step the roof??? that much soil is an engineering nightmare let alone a good hard storm will cause a monsterous landslide of a mess right into the pool below. :P hahaha.

 
# April 21, 2009 at 22:14
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Riquelme says:

Great house! Looks like something a superhero would appreciate. The images are much more vivid than the plain renderings you see everyday too. So many cool projects coming out from this office right now!

 
# April 22, 2009 at 04:09
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canaan says:

really mystic

 
# April 22, 2009 at 05:49
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speedfreak says:

woho nice garage :)
i like the green roof as well

 
# April 22, 2009 at 06:32
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George says:

This is a project of had in my head for a while! Wish I was working on it for you!

Really nicely done – the rendering technique is really interesting!

 
# April 22, 2009 at 08:38
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Claudia says:

w o w ! !
would be a cool movie in this house

 
# April 22, 2009 at 13:00
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david says:

A quite dark one comparing to the Rapid Palace but i like it a lot!

 
# April 22, 2009 at 13:37
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alejandro says:

It´s a nice idea but it doesn’t quite work yet, the section is not well thought of, it´s too much weight in top of such a fragile structure, looks bad, besides what do you actually gain with that? The main render with the dude floating around also sucks…

 
# April 22, 2009 at 16:31
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Rafael says:

They totally stole my childhood vision of my dreamhouse. Only mine was bigger and quarried in a steep cliff facing west. Ha!

 
# April 23, 2009 at 07:15
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jupiter says:

I want to live in this house.

 
# April 25, 2009 at 02:31
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jeremiah says:

Classy building, hands down!

 
# May 9, 2009 at 16:36
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2:47 PM Apr 26th

Gras op het dak – Fort Lola / visiondivision – http://www.archdaily.com/20253/fort-lola-visiondivision/

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