Optimizing space with polyhedron house

Polyhedron Habitable by Manuel Villa started out as a project meant for a family house back yard in the suburbs. The aim was to designing a small park or opened area where the young parents and their newborn child would enjoy a independent space from day to day house activities. Villa looked for usages of the space in the long term, and proposed the project incorporated a small building to complement and support outside activities.

The Polyhedron-project wants to recover the natural space and rebuild its original vocation, the native woods. The building faces the natural landscape and at the same time constitutes a complementary space that supplies protection, refuge and a dwelling area. The light structure at the same time allows for several activities inside. Villa was inspired by the shape’s perception processes the children develop in their first years of life, and th outcome is a regular polyhedron or truncated cubic-octahedron, transformed into a inhabitable space; a self-standing volume with one of his faces opened to the surroundings, and little windows on the sides and at the top that supply day light and optimal air circulation conditions. Inside, the space is arranged with a drawing area with a desk and ledge, and a resting place.

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