The Centrifugal Villa is arranged around a hollow center, appearing as if the heart of the house had fallen outside its body. The string of subsequent spaces in its interior provides a comprehension of the whole by sacrificing their individual geometric cohesiveness to the fractured configuration of the entire composition.
The experience of the interior is characterized by constantly shifting vanishing points, at the place of their collision in each crease of the plan. Large openings cutting dormer scoops on the roof helps in centrifugally releasing the views out to the surrounding landscape.
Conceived as a horse-shoe plan around a courtyard, the house cannibalizes the local vernacular, distorting it through hexagonal introspection of the plan and the transposed proportion of the parts. Each room is designed to offer different view to both the courtyard and the gardens.
Set on a 5-acre property overlooking an agricultural reserve, the project includes a pool-house with a separate guesthouse and garage structure. Designed as wood post-and-beam structure, the exterior cladding is detailed with vertical board and batten seams to give continuity to the building exterior and encourage an uninterrupted rhythmic flow around the elevations.
