Stone House
2024 KSA
Stone House is conceived not as a single villa but as an accumulation of rooms, walls and towers gathered within the landscape. Thick stone volumes rise at different heights, creating a small inhabited topography of courtyards, terraces, gardens and protected interior spaces.
The apparent solidity of the architecture is continually broken by deep openings, water and vegetation. Rooms retreat into the mass of the stone while gardens occupy the spaces between them; narrow passages suddenly open toward the horizon, and pools and cascades bring light and movement deep into the house. The distinction between building and landscape gradually becomes uncertain.
From a distance the house appears almost archaeological — something discovered rather than placed on the site — while within, it becomes a sequence of shaded rooms and hidden gardens.
The apparent solidity of the architecture is continually broken by deep openings, water and vegetation. Rooms retreat into the mass of the stone while gardens occupy the spaces between them; narrow passages suddenly open toward the horizon, and pools and cascades bring light and movement deep into the house. The distinction between building and landscape gradually becomes uncertain.
From a distance the house appears almost archaeological — something discovered rather than placed on the site — while within, it becomes a sequence of shaded rooms and hidden gardens.
With
Sir Peter Cook, Ronghua Lei
