Posters

The building attempts to redefine luxury, comfort and style in residential architecture. It has been a pro-active exploration of ideas amongst the people involved and today it stands as a building that can be dismantled, reconstructed and easily be recycled.

Texture. Material. IMPACT.

Can textures be intriguing? Can they get your attention? Can they be the showstopper?’’

Surrounded by a creative and humble environment, the Matra poster series was a result of learning and documentation of completed projects. A visual perspective on a project’s history, concept and line drawings inspired a self motivated, independent side project. An homage to an architect’s legacy, and thought process. The posters also take inspiration from Japan’s graphical elements.

WOOD HOUSE by Matra

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The design negotiates diverse forces of nature and existing trees on site, and of a complex client brief. The adventitious form of the building developed over time into an organic concept, a rhizome that adapted itself easily to further changes during the construction process. Four main branches stem from a central node, reaching out to respond to solar orientation and grand vantages into the landscape.

Two identical buildings without windows that create an immersive environment. Daylight pierces through various vertical & horizontal incisions in the blocks and exposes the ossified quality of bare concrete surfaces. The sublime atmosphere of the arresting internal spaces is cut by intriguing trajectories of concrete/steel staircases, which emerge to visually expand the entrance and compress themselves to finally disappear into suffused light.