Background
What if we didn’t create another building, but a new layer of the landscape were ground, ceiling, and nature work as a set?
After all, the existing Portuguese landscape does not need an otherness that will diverge or ignore the current conditions and natural beauty. Instead, we aim to transform the area in a way that will not disrupt a primary reading of the existing and valued landscape but to achieve a balance between the current and the imposed landscape.
the project is preoccupied with the landscape in a conceptual way to enrich/stimulate yoga practice and in a morphological way where the architectural artifact doesn’t compete with the rural environment, but it becomes the landscape itself.
the idea of a duplicated ground that doesn’t only merge with the existing landscape but also establishes relationships in multiple levels and directions for the user by working as a ‘bridge’ between the fragmented parts of the landscape.
By folding the roof, the solar radiation on the western facade has been decreased by 85% compared to a conventional solution.