Monterey Residence / Forward Design Office
California-based Forward Design Office shared with us their design for a Monterey Residence in California. More images and architect’s description after the break.
The Monterey Residence reinterprets traditional hacienda architecture to create a contemporary design focused around an inner courtyard. The client’s concern for privacy, desire for an ocean view and performance requirements drive the aesthetic and organization of the residence.
Three bands inform the organization of the house, reflected in the fluid exterior surfaces. The roof and the relationship of the building to the ground plane represent the upper and lowers bands respectively. The exterior perforated skin meets to create a pronounced edge that visually represents the middle band, delineating program separation and occupant circulation. The private program is encompassed between the upper and middle bands, while the public program occupies the space between middle and lower, essentially transitioning the house from public and private. A perforated landscape and building skin connects to all the void spaces while hardscape extends from the inside out surrounding a courtyard swimming pool, blurring the boundaries between public and private program.
The house’s streamlined geometry aesthetically indicates the house’s optimal performance-based design, accentuating its integrated passive, mechanical, and sustainable strategies. A green roof, photovoltaic system, and gradient perforated skin assist the house’s passive cooling and heating system and natural ventilation while maintaining a fluid form and eased relationship with the site.
I don’t understand ‘the architects description’ except for a few things
1. the client requires
a. Privacy
b. Ocean View
c. Performance
I don’t thinks clients should be punished for asking the to mix performance with two simple things Privacy and Ocean view.
Is this inner courtyard the Private Space?
I understand i am very weak in English.
So, Perforated wall + Fluid form = (Performance) Passive cooling.
I am unable to relate all the other with building.
WOOOOOOOO!!!!
“The house’s streamlined geometry aesthetically indicates the house’s optimal performance-based design, accentuating its integrated passive, mechanical, and sustainable strategies”….please throw some light on this statement…
Meh…really getting tired of these smooth and clean renders people keep submitting. Its still in such a conceptual stage, just look at the non-existent roof supports.
what supports?! this house will be built with unobtainium..
Hahahahah… Comment of the day and what a great sense of humour!
just look at the non-existent roof supports.
only have to scale-up the mullions.
True in most cases, but it seems to be a green roof which will be seriously heavy. Unless they use some sort of “greengrid” system where you can remove and shift the greens around. And when the soil gets saturated? Does the water just simply run down the beautiful windows?
And I also doubt that the house would really maintain its floating roof business the way it is now if they decided to double the size of the mullions – it would completely lose its impact and impair the view.
All Im saying is that this submission is premature and still in an idea-stage. It has an interesting form and spaces but its difficult for me to say something overly positive about something so clearly unresolved.
It seems like so many themes clashed together; perforation, performance through shape (i.e. Mobius House), etc.
Also, I don’t see the need for the expenditure of curved glass everywhere. Mobius House was done much better.
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Well, enough already with the Mayan architecture and by ‘Mayan’ I don’t mean the respectable ancient American heritage, but the software-enhanced, self-centered, means-becomes-ends production, churned out by gehry-hadid wonnabees.
The more powerful the 3D tool, it seems, the more Architecture turns into CGI – computer generated impotence.
You want to be innovative? Then try not to take topological (or any other) concepts literally and repeat the same formalistic exercise, which looks and feels like a new version of “Designing for the Sims”
Unfortunately the structural mullions solution mentioned above would most certainly not meet California’s seismic code..
The project actually has some really cool spacial ideas that are able to exist because of the inner pond/courtyard, the whole spiraling formal gesture is letting some interesting visual connections happen…The diagrams are confusing though, they are relentless at keeping a consistent graphic style that result in those diagrams becoming convoluted, what is the deal with the pink hidden lines in the axon drawing?…they’re hidden, that’s it, they aren’t showing else, the pink makes it seem like those lines are more important than the black visible lines…they muddy the drawing up. Also, the diagram showing the datum with the public/private happening is confusing…the game room is technically under that datum, and therefor private. I wouldn’t consider a game room private. (unless that diagram only applies to program behind the opaque band…either way it’s unclear). And then finally, what is the insightful statement about seperating public and private using a datum?
why is this project even published?
jkjk
these skills are elementary, the building is heinous, and i hope its not built. the design is speaking several languages which dont speak to each other. truly a disgrace to the gestalt theory
1:10 PM Nov 12th
Monterey Residence / Forward Design Office Modern Homes Modern Doors http://t.co/IAVMnNbV via @archdaily