Nest of the Forest
Focus
Modular housing system
Location
No specific site
Year
2025
A modular timber home that blurs living and landscape. Two cabin-style volumes; one communal, one private, interlock with curving terraces that follow the forest contours. Skylights, porosity, and layered spaces create a sanctuary where architecture feels grown from the terrain rather than built upon it.
This studio investigate architectural assemblages and aggregations as a framework for future methods of living, focusing on adaptive systems and advanced construction techniques. A key focus is the exploration of aggregative tectonics, where discrete, combinable elements form complex spatial and structural systems. This study how these modular systems can adapt to changing environmental, social and material conditions, emphasizing flexibility, scalabiliry and resilience. These provide an opportunity to wrestle with basic questions of how we live, what kind of spaces we need and want and how this affects the dynamics between architecture and social inhabitants in our future urban environments.
How the house nestled into the landscape rather than overtaking it.
The design uses interlocking modules with varied porosity torespond to privacy needs. Structural elements double as spatialdividers, creating gradient zones between open communal terracesand enclosed resting pods like room.
Utilizing skylight allowing lights to go in.
Roof texture emphasizes directionality.
Some walls are more porous while others are denser due to subdivision.
Communal spaces layering.
Layerings to divide the spaces.
Subdivision used on the wall to create different textural gradients within the space.
Skylight to allow lights to penetrates through the communal spaces.
Subdivision on the walls for textural gradients.
Isolation from other spaces allowing for a more intimate and serene experience with nature.
The view outlooking from the retreats space creates a sensory experience surrounding the space unlike any other part of the house .
Nest of the Forest is a vision of future living, it explores how a timber modular system interacts with its environment and how we can design the space to respond to the site in an adaptable nature. Merging into the landscape and responding to its surroundings to allow for possible opportunities, the internal timber modular system invites air and light to create a ever evolving space.