Twinkle Villa

A private retreat which was originally planned for a retired owner and somehow it  became a sanctuary that is used for vacations, recreation, arts performing, and an  art gallery. From the street, the house is hidden. One could only see nature’s  pathway and trees while approaching to the house. The house is a studied  composition of lines and edges – a striated, gravity-defying C-shaped box of volume

perched lightly on top of natural slope. On one side, a raw concrete wall rises above  building height – it is the façade of house that also visually separates the natures  and interior.  

The main spaces are visually extended to the outdoors via borrowed views. The  generous natural wilderness is co-opted into the living platform – an open platform  without any vertical planes. The dining room tucked next to the open kitchen, is a  glass box within the large C-shaped volume. An art gallery, an open space for  gathering, demarcated only by full-height sliding glass doors, is turning out as bright  as a lantern at night from its entire spatial composition.