Amalia House / GRID Architects
Architects: GRID Architekten GmbH Luxemburg-Wien - Gerhard Klocker, Ric Thill, Isabella Straus
Location: Styria, Austria
Function: Holiday Cabin
Construction year: May 2007 - August 2007
Site Area: 480 sqm
Constructed Area: 68.12 sqm
Construction: Prefabricated Wood / Artificial Grass
Photographs: Lukas Schaller
Amalia -named after the grandmother of her owners -is a holiday cabin to host family members spread all over austria.
Located on top of a hill in Styria, overlooking the valley of Kirchbach Amalia offers space for up to six people, without having to spare any comfort.
Organised in 2 levels, one of them split, she lets the landscape float in and gives view to her surrounding from everywhere within.
To give tribute to the nature around her and maximize the interchange between inside and outside, the house is completely covered with artificial grass -with only the windows left out.
Amalia is the first artificial grass camouflage building in Austria.
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12 Comments to “Amalia House / GRID Architects” »
i agree with you on this one because i featured it on my blog too. love the materials - the minimalist design - the odd lines - and it is just cool!
it’s sure the building’s form is interesting!
But one question:
when you say :”maximize the interchange between inside and outside” can you be a bit more explicit?
this material is isolation or has the capacitiy to keep the warm or the cold of the buildiing?
Artificial grass - a tribute to the nature around the house? More a tribute to Astroturf based sports days!
this GRASS HOUSE was featured in high times! i just can’t get into astro-turf. i’m not sure this building pulls off the artificial grass and it would have “maximized the interchange between inside and outside” better if there was an artificial lawn as well … but then there’d be MORE astro-turf
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The choice in artificial grass was an interesting one for sure.
Sirs,
I am a journalist working for internews, a UK news agency. We provide topical stories and pictures to the media over here.
Your unique holiday cabin with astroturf cladding would make
an interesting story for us. May we please have a some hi-res images - and more information about its construction.
Later, we will send you copies of anything published.
Many thanks
Len Adams/Writer
I would be concerned about the potential problems withHTML lead in the artificial turf . I hope they looked into that when selecting the turf cladding.
Interesting form to it though. Great design.
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