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Samuel Macalister
300 m2
2014
Revit
Autodesk
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In the suburbs of Autodesk, we finally meet the end of a deep and calm village by climbing a long mountain path, which filters complicated and distracting things in our minds. It’s the place where we forget the tempo of busy and tiring city life. We built ‘Sample Project’ here, the lyrical place where people who really glorify art and nature are able to recover a slow and peaceful stream of time.
The original design (that was adjusted for simplicity for the Revit 2014 release) which is pictured above, was proposed to be two forms — one for living, one for sleeping with indoor/outdoor kitchen/dining area. The kitchen and dining area were to be enclosed by sliding doors (but were changed to a curtain wall) that would slide into and away from the building. This inspiration came from my time working as a Residential Architect at JASMAX in New Zealand. I've also been fascinated with heavy materials and how to float them, so the lighter timber cladding was used for the ground floor living area and concrete was chosen for the upper floor.
Other architects that inspired this design were Herzog and De Meuron's House in Leymen and numerous works from Fearon Hay architects who design some stunning houses in New Zealand and the US.
The Sample House has now been used for numerous workflows around the world with a number of Autodesk software products such as 3ds Max.