Home-stay proposal No. 1

Information

Type professional Year 2019

Program home-stay

Location Taitung, Taiwan

Team Create + Think Design Studio

Role complete proposal ideation, 3d modeling, all images in this volume

Traversing through a disorienting tunnel, then clockwise around the building’s perimeter to the entrance

Experience: Home-stay No. 1

Experience: Home-stay No. 1

Experience: Home-stay No. 1

Experience: Home-stay No. 1

This was the initial proposal for “Labyrinth.” The plan was to erect a secluded home-stay on the small, awkwardly situated site, adjacent to the street. However, the biggest challenge was not in the site condition but the subjectivity of “secludedness.” The solution of “traversing from the noisy street to a quiet private garden via a disorienting tunnel” strives to create this sense by seeking recourse in the rationale, utilizing purely formal operations to achieve an experience that is tangible and comprehensible to all.

The guests arrive via the garage, and as the gates close, they are drawn in by faint lights shimmering ahead, revealing a flight of winding stairs. Heading up, the guests find themselves in a narrow tunnel and realized that the shimmering lights were lights filtered from the trees and penetrating through a small slit in the wall. Upon exiting the tunnel, the guests are surprised to be amid a forest and no longer by the street. Turning left, they are met with a two-stories tall gateway which they pass through quickly, leaving behind the forest and retreating to the safety of a private garden. Two more left turns later, they finally arrive at the entrance, disoriented and completely cleansed of the outside world. It is as if they had arrived at the heart of a place far removed from the world. A “serene” place.

Experience: Home-stay No. 1