Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020
This aerial photograph presents a contemporary architectural structure serving as a design studio, captured from an elevated vantage point approximately forty-five degrees above horizontal, revealing both the rooftop configuration and the primary facade. Beginning with orientation, the building occupies the central and lower portion of the frame, its brilliant white surfaces creating the brightest element within the composition, like fresh snow against darker surroundings. The structure features an irregular angular footprint, with walls meeting at acute and obtuse angles rather than conventional right angles, creating a sense of dynamic movement. Most dramatically, the rooftop contains a large triangular void—an open courtyard carved into the building mass—within which sits a smaller pyramidal skylight structure clad in warm wood tones with deep violet-blue glazed surfaces, suggesting the depth of evening sky reflected in still water. Warm golden light, like honey or amber, glows from within the building through a ground-level band of windows spanning approximately three-quarters of the visible facade length, and through a distinctive pentagonal window positioned on the white wall above. Small warm-toned light fixtures punctuate the rooftop terrace, creating intimate pools of illumination like small campfires against the cool white surfaces. The surrounding context includes various neighboring structures with dark gray pitched roofs, earth-toned walls in salmon and beige, bare deciduous trees with reaching branches, patches of dormant brown grass, and an empty lot with scattered stones and debris. A roadway with painted markings runs along the bottom edge. The overall atmosphere suggests early evening during late autumn or winter, with interior warmth contrasting against the cooling exterior air, creating a sense of creative sanctuary and productive activity within.
The building was based on a "triangle" with the strongest visual image of the original geometric form. If you look down from a high place, you can see a total of five different triangles The combination of triangles of different sizes means that "human" and "nature" play a role as a place where they meet.