The Flowing Garden House is sitting within the heart of nature as an example of architecture harmoniously responding to the outdoors and reflecting spaces that are not only functional and beautiful. This innovative and challenging traditional architectural convention was designed by the More Than Arch Studio with fluid and organic designs resembling the natural landscape and generating interaction with nature.
Concept and Inspiration
The Fluidity House of Flowing Garden derives from the fluidity concept itself, but its exterior form and interaction with the surrounding landscape contain it. It extends the fluidity of integrating interior and exterior spaces and opens up the home to the sun, wind, and air by using plants. This approach, in the transparency and openness, gives a feeling as if the part of the house is a garden and not the house in the garden.
Design Philosophy
The philosophy that really matters in the Flowing Garden House revolves around blurring boundaries between built environment and the natural environment. With glass walls and other natural materials, as well as the open-plan layout, the resulting architecture is an entire openness with a continuum within the building design. As one moves around there is the feeling of transitioning from one part to another-not rigid separations or obstructions. This fluidity is also reflected in the selection of materials like timber and stone, which are locally sourced for minimal environmental impact and to maintain that deep connection with its surroundings that a house must have. The design also represents elements of biophilic architecture-an approach to design that attempts to bring the outdoors inside through the use of natural light, greenery, and natural ventilation. The floor-to-ceiling windows open up to afford a view into the garden with no obstructions, and within the house, plants are available for optimal interaction with nature. Thus, the result is a house that feels alive, dynamic, and constantly evolving with the seasons.
Layout and Spatial Experience
Flowing Garden House is characterized by open flexible spatiality where users of the space allow the house’s adaptation for different uses of a user as wished.
A big expansive living space that fluidly connects the kitchen, dining, and lounge room. From such a building design, it included a central courtyard within the house. The point of significance is where the house brings in lighting, air, and greenery into the middle of the building structure. This courtyard then becomes a hidden outdoor sanctuary in which to gain a peaceful atmosphere. Bedrooms are kept at the perimeter of the house for some kind of seclusion yet not completely closed off and allow a glimpse of the surrounding garden. Every room is arranged to have natural lighting and provide connection with the surroundings. The Flowing Garden House is designed as an environmental house with all components of water harvesting, use of solar energy, and more other efficient mechanisms which decrease the house’s footprint in the ecosystem.
Interact with Nature
Perhaps one of the great things about this house is that it completely integrates into the landscape.
Consideration of site natural topography goes into the design, using subtle slopes and curvations to guide form development. And the house really seems to be flowing within the land in a way that it has grown there from nature. Surrounding the house with some real garden, not just as a decorative feature, but rather an extension of the house within which plant life as well as a few deciduous trees are included in the design to create an immersive and lush environment.
This is how More Than Arch Studio described the Flowing Garden House, a masterly fusion of form, function, and nature.
Indeed, from the fluid and from the biophilic principles, designers have produced in this way a real home which actually fosters not only a personal connection with a natural world, but also produces a comfortable place to live. This amazing project is, in its own right, a testament, however, really to the power and potential of architects in shaping built environments to impact our experience of nature itself.
