THE GLASS HOUSE

AN INIMITABLE EXPERIENCE OF PLACE – KOONYA PAVILION BY ROOM11

Inspire The local Project

Type: Exterior and Interior visualization | Location: Tasman Peninsula, Australia

Architecture: Room 11 Architects
Interior design: Room11 Architects

Visualization: Alexandr Tyan

No architecture can make a landscape as soul-stirringly beautiful as the coastline of the Tasman Peninsula more powerful, but the right building can distil and heighten the experience of inhabiting such a place. Setting out to capture the elemental qualities of this experience, Room11 took a reductive approach to the design until all that remained of the building were four glass walls and two parallel planes of equal area that offer shelter overhead and support underfoot. The resulting glass pavilion sits as an object in the landscape, its exposed nature intensifying awareness of the site’s nuances.

“Seen from afar, the pavilion reads as two parallel lines set against the gently undulating landscape. It is a defined architectural object that makes no pretensions to naturalness – but its every design gesture is imminently decipherable and logical, grounded in and given meaning by the experience it seeks to create. It does not take on the form of a glass pavilion simply to play with creating one of architecture’s most daring typologies, nor adopt minimalism as a purely aesthetic sensibility. The Glass House lays itself bare to the landscape because it is the most straightforward route to achieving an authentic, inimitable experience of place.”

The pavilion is intended as a place separate from the main house, which was also designed by Room11, dedicated to creative practice, where the client can retreat to find inspiration and solace in nature.

Collage and Whitebox view

3ds Max and Corona rendering engine were used. Many materials were scanned and all materials were created from scratch. Custom 3d objects modelled in 3ds Max, vegetation growth in MaxTree and cloths simulations in Marvelous Designer. Using custom color mapping.