Excerpt: The Falls House by Akitephile, inspired by the Pongour waterfall, proposes an artificial building that looks like natural scenery. The residence showcases an “emotional” building that not only considers aesthetics but also focuses on lighting and ventilation. This design aims to create a seamless connection between the indoor and outdoor environments, allowing residents to experience the beauty of nature from the comfort of their home.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] Normally the human mind works like a biological mechanism: when something is missing, we desire it. Desire to taste a dish that our mothers used to cook, desire for the fragrance of the old house that we haven’t visited for more than a decade, desire to hear the cricket’s sound that we had abandoned in the past. Desire to see the sunshine playing on the trees in front of the terrace, desire to touch some values that daily life can’t even dream of. In the evolution of Sapien, our history is stick to nature, stick to the green.
Now the city’s life separates us from those things. It makes us desire to travel to nature…. But, just traveling is still not enough. That’s why many people still like to plant trees, have their own garden to relax themselves with the smell of leaves covering the whole space, with endless surround sound in harmony with the chirping of birds.
“Well, any tree is fine, as long as it’s green. No matter what kind of house, as long as the breath of nature is free to enter every corner of the house.” After a hard working day, when you return home, that’s where emotions take over. Let’s stop talking about a sustainable building, we just talk about an emotional house, where there are a lot of trees, a creature associated with the early stages of human evolution.
Pongour, the waterfall that represents grandeur, green space, and nature, a creation that impresses anyone who sees it because of an ingenious combination of nature and a similar arrangement as an artificial thing. The cliffs cut by weathering with trees rooted deep into each rock crevice make everyone admire the scenery here. “If only we could live here and still continue our work like we do in the city” is not a personal matter, so why don’t we bring a little romance in the highlands to where we live? If Bongour represents a natural thing but looks like an artificial creature, we are going to propose an artificial building that looks like natural scenery.
Also, from CaCO₃, also from rock, sand, and gravel, the chemical composition is not much different from Pongour; just stylize the shape to become an architectural creature, and we can create art rock caves from concrete. Also, many people believe that the whole world was formed from the hand of a creator; maybe a certain weathering process will turn that brick, sand, gravel, and cement mixture into a part of nature.
Well, let’s temporarily put aside the rules and principles to make the work more human. Thinking simply, few people buy a few pots of plants to display on their desks but are concerned with their sustainable value or how much oxygen they produce in a day. Just the feeling of sitting and working in the middle of that luxuriant green tree makes us love life more or the moment of getting up to water the plants as if time forgot us in a corner of the room with the tree. We are watering. Whether it’s cliffs, green trees, whatever, creating a happy and emotional home for life is always considered an architect’s design mission. We call it Naturalism, when people’s nature-oriented instincts will be satisfied through architectural simulations.
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