For Villa RM the experience of arrival is very significant. Because moving for a season to the countryside in Denmark offers peace and quiet. There is little to no one around which emphasizes the idea of being secluded from the world itself. The entrance will appear as a portal into a new world, where you can be away from everything. The concrete arcade symbolises something very old. A passage into an old world.
A very key aspect of the project is the structure. There is an arcade that becomes the enclosed buildings. Doing this ensures that the buildings are connected. The buildings ranges from 3-6 meters high with a fireplace that is the highest object on the ground which stand at 9 meters tall.
A key concept of this project is the number 3. 3 buildings 3, 6, 9, meters heights. The division of spaces, kitchen, dining, living – bedroom, bathroom, bedroom – Studio, storage, delivery. The structure is always 30 cm wide. The structure of the atelier has 3 columns on the short side, 9 on the long, and 6m height. The width of all 3 buildings are 3 columns.
The use of the material concrete liberates the buildings. As a material it is formless until given its form. It neither takes nor gives attention to anything, what it does is give space. By allowing the project to be concrete, glass, and fabric. The fabric though the least part of the project gains the most attention. The contrast between the lightness of fabric and the heavy concrete allows the fabric to become hope, freedom. The decision to use thin fabric enhances this feeling. In the guest house this is very evident. Because the guest house is more treated as a roof with shelter walls, the fabrics primary job is to offer the privacy. To design this space, I took inspiration from Arabic tents, where the fabric behaves as a living organism, never still, always in motion, by wind and human interaction. The fabric in the guest house, though the same material, stands in contrast to the fabric used in the atelier, where its primary job is to filter light.
The landscaping is very important, because it becomes the fourth wall of this world. Which is the seclusion.
