REFUGE
An Architectural Dialogue Between House and Landscape
Refuge emerged from a three-phase process in which a personal architectural experience is translated into an autonomous design.
The project begins with the experience of a specific place: a modern, adapted dwelling. During a walk through its spaces, light, color, materiality, and form were observed and recorded through drawings and models.
This architectural experience was then translated into abstract forms that detached themselves from their original context. The formal language and colors of the dwelling were preserved and carried into a new environment: a walk through the forest.
These formal experiments resulted in three refuges positioned along the forest path. The familiar shapes and colors from the dwelling remain present, yet acquire a new meaning within the landscape.
The final design took the shape of an installation: a wooden structure that represents the abstracted journey and serves as a carrier for the three refuges — each an autonomous architectural object.
