We all love to go for camps; the beauty of nature and the divine feeling of the green neighborhood is hard to replicate. What if someone told you that you can stay in a tent like structure throughout your life…? Sounds interesting… doesn’t it?
Frohn and Rojas’ Wall House does the same. The house is displayed in Santiago de Chile and is a feat of both aesthetics and engineering. The house has been built by totally ignoring the traditional approaches to house building.
The Wall House has used four delaminated structural layers instead of walls. These layers include a cave-like concrete core, an outer ring of shelving, a soft skin of polycarbonate panels and finally a fabric membrane.
The house slips in between these layers, these layers blend into one another blurring the boundary between the interior and the exterior and creating quantitatively distinct environments.
The best feature in the building is an energy screen typically used in greenhouse construction, constitutes the outermost layer, creating not only a diffused lighting and comfortably climatized zone inside but also, through its folding and sometimes reflective/ sometimes translucent surface, contributes to the diamond-cut appearance of the structure.
Via: Inhabitat
