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| The house is built on a sloping site, and in order to minimize the excavation
work the rear half of the house is dug into the ground, the excavated earth
being used as fill for the front half, creating a level floor. The floor
surface at the embedded rear part of the house curls up to meet the roof,
naturally absorbing the imposed load of the earth. The roof is flat and
is fixed rigidly to the upturned slab freeing the 3 columns at the front
from any horizontal loads. As a result of bearing only vertical loads these
columns could be reduced to a minimum 55 mm in diameter. In order to express
the structural concept as purely as possible all the walls and mullions
have been purged leaving only sliding panels. Spatially, the house consists
of a euniversal floorf on which the kitchen, bathroom and toilet are
all placed without enclosure, but which can be flexibly partitioned by
the sliding doors. |
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