Wild House / Soar Design Studio

This spatial experience stimulates a more unimagined living style. For instance, the vertical void in the public area on the first and second floors is generated from a double-height ceiling, which creates a vertical gathering space that extends upward like a big tree. Combining with the tabletops, the quarter spiral staircase, platform corridors, and treehouses, this spatial integration can develop an interesting life experience with the vertical development of the space. This allows each family member the option of solitary and communal spaces, thereby developing a more diverse mode of joint living, and being able to appreciate the changes in mountain scenery from different heights and angles, deepening the connection with nature.

Embracing the enclosing mountain view, the design emphasizes the connection of in and out, using different vertical and converging spaces to break the horizontal lifestyle, inserting a more comprehensive sense of nature. The design focuses on the connection of two levels, linking the interior, residents, and the outdoor to better merge the view into daily life while creating a more fluid and diverse space to facilitate human connections.

There are three key points of design:
1. The vertical axis, like extending trees, develops the space, allowing organic growth of life and space.
2. Holes and gaps create a microclimate for the interior, deepening the coexistence with the view.
3. High and low levels and multi-directional space add more angles to the view. Nature is amplified.

We start from outside of the base to create a space resembling trees, that each space extends like a branch, growing upward, outward and yet staying interconnected. The vertical axis breaks the flat spatial design, while split-level platforms, shared, middle and corner break the stratified style of the duplex building.

With a variety of holes, gaps, and intermediary spaces, different forms of communication are created, which in turn leads to various behaviors. In both horizontal and vertical spaces, the sense of stability and privacy is enabled. A huge area of penetrating materials blends the in and out for a wider view, while various frames create the experience of as-if outside. To strengthen the connection with nature, each floor boasts a 4m-deep terrace, moving the residents closer to nature.