Three Slabs House by Gaiss
Located in Marupe, Latvia, the Three Slabs House is a modern house designed in 2020 by Gaiss.
Description
Riga based architecture studio GAISS has designed a house with a laconic volume defined by three horizontal slabs. Beginning with a sketch on 2012 a slow project process has lead to a fully designed house with elaborated interior details and bespoke furniture pieces in 2020.
House is located in a suburb of Riga – a dense, recently built residential neighbourhood, where privacy and intimacy become important aspects for indoor space.
The house is characterized by its horizontality. The two-storey volume sits on a horizontal terrace slab on the ground. The middle slab forms a balcony towards the garden and a narrow roof towards the street front. The final line in the spatial composition of the house is the third slab – the roof. All three slabs have the same contour repeating vertically. Light grey plaster planes are combined with natural heat-treated wood planks marking the entrance area and horizontal surfaces. Initially rich in colour the planks are going to fade and achieve natural greyness thus revealing the rhythm of time. Connections between the materials are exact and precise, without transitions. Horizontal slabs and vertical volumes relate sharply as they would be cutting through each other. Facade detailing is reduced to the minimum consisting of cool grey aluminium window frames and steel railing with almost invisible, su...
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