BEAUTY OF GLASS

The arrangement links the floors every room, visually and physically, with the garden thus reinforcing the feeling of being constantly at ground level. The huge front porch, which also serves as a parking garage, is carved into the hill, like a cave, leaving the top volume, as if “floating”in the green landscape. The gap created between the main volumes, is hosting the stairs that connect levels shifted to different heights and to give the impression of walking on the natural slope as if nature is part of the built environment.

The house was sited high enough to maximize the view from the house but low enough so that the view of the brow of the hill and the silhouette of trees was not disturbed. Contour lines were followed in the siting of the house, and views of granite platforms and outcrops maintained. The landscape has a directional or linear quality at various scales. The master planning objective was to utilize this quality to connect the residence with the vast scale of the setting rather than designing a domestic garden.

The plan of the Osler house is structured by a ground floor volume a suspended volume and a deck with an outdoor pool. The house is a poetic commentary on modern architecture above all on Brazilian modernism starting from a contemporary re-reading of the building materials and techniques. The box of concrete and wood on ground, houses the main suite, a bedroom, bathroom, the utilities area and the garage.

C. F. Møller Architects have developed two office-projects, Advice House and Lysholt Tower, for the client Lysholt Erhverv A/S. Both projects employ a simple, yet visually strong cladding with an unusual, colour-changing appearance. This week, KPMG were the first tenants to move into the new building. Advice House is the first completed building in the Lysholt Park, a new business-park north of Vejle, and is with its proximity to the motorway designated to act as landmark and eye-catcher for the entire development.