La Casa del Anillo & Atelier, diseñada por Marwan Zgheib.
Diseñada para un joyero de Riad, en el Reino de Arabia Saudita, proporciona un espacio tranquilo de estilo zen para inspirar la creatividad. Aunque la pared exterior es un círculo, el espacio habitable interior es un rectángulo.
Un lugar perfecto para concentrarse sin interrupciones.
The Ring House is located on the southern coast of Crete. The house and its garden are designed to form a temperate microclimate, an oasis within an intensely beautiful but physically demanding environment.
Two concrete beams follow the topography of the hill to define the outline of the house and an interior garden of citrus plants and aromatic shrubs. All the interiors lie between the two beams underneath a flat roof. The roof provides a surface for solar collection panels. On both ends of the ring, the roof is pierced to create well shaded exteriors. The form of the ring allows for views that pan the entire horizon and good natural ventilation for all inhabited spaces.
At a broader scale, the house is a landscape preservation effort. In the past, the land had been severely scarred in an effort to carve roads. We covered the scars and erased the roads with the excavation material extracted during the house’s construction.
Once the earth was restored, the plants needed grow again. During the spring, prior to construction, seeds were collected on site and cultivated in a green house to grow more seeds. These were then sowed over the traces of the old roads and three months later the local plants gradually reappeared, hiding any trace of the old roads.
Completed in 2021 in India. Images by Manan Surti Photography, Inclined Studio. The Ring House is located in Jaspur, the northern suburb of
"We identified a zone with no fruit trees and tried to knead the compactly built form, hence creating a smaller footprint. The site has varied contour levels, and the program evolved with landscape design integration with existing contours. The zone where the house was to come has been elevated by 3 meters and conceived as a table with grown lawn areas. This elevated even table partially hosts the built form, while the rest of the built areas are cantilevered. Proposing the house on an elevated level provided numerous opportunities for the forecourt and house to be surrounded by the thick foliage of the grown fruit trees, with birds roaming around frequently at arm’s length"