For the outside walls, pigments from the red Mallorcan soil were mixed with the plaster to create a glowing pink. Inside, white dominates, from the fittings and furniture to the walls unencumbered with decoration.Illumination and design details come principally from the ingenious use of windows, wall slits and perspective stretching straight lines. Built around a central courtyard, each space in the four-bedroom holiday home is lit via dramatic spaces in the ceilings and walls, be it the kitchen with its floor to sky glass sliver or the master bedroom and its ladder of skylights.
A covered dining area opens onto a long, narrow swimming pool, while at the opposite end of the house a smaller pool is fed by a gargoyle. A roof terrace dotted with sunbeds is good for the idle, while an onsite tennis court offers activity.
The task was to erect a pavilion as an extension to a single family-house in Berlin-Pankow. The client wished to have not only a larger living area but also sufficient space for his collection of Asian sculptures. Within a square ground plan eight concrete pillars bear a projecting flat roof. It serves as a sun protection for the glazed cube. Because of the lack of walls, the consequent minimalisation of materials – exposed concrete, white terrazzo, glass and dark gray aluminum frames - the pavilion becomes a sphere between interior space and garden.
With its deep black overhang, this house in Stockholm recalls the dramatic roof of Mies’ Neue Nationalgalerie, built in Berlin’s Kulturforum. But unlike the intense urbanity of the glass and steel museum, this residential project faces panoramic views of a nearby bay and includes a smartly situated infinity pool — it takes the best of the surrounding natural materials and translates it into inhabited space.