Challenge: The Mushroom – A wooden home within the forest
Architects: ZJJZ
Location: Jiangxi, China
Space: 538 sf
Pictures by: Courtesy of ZJJZ
The Mushroom by ZJJZ
The Mushroom is situated in a pine forest. Thus dealing with the connection between nature and the structure turned the important strategy of our design.
The architectural type of the Mushroom consists of two easy volumes in response to the capabilities:
The principle a part of the mushroom is the visitor room area, with a panoramic window arrange close to the viewing top. When sitting on chairs or leaning on the mattress, the visitors are immersed within the surrounding nature. The loft serves as a baby space, linked by the small-scale stairs. The pure white cone-shaped roof is rounded on prime, creating a way of unbounded extension to the area.
The lavatory and cupboard space are organized in a easy rectangular quantity, which is inserted into the primary physique of the Mushroom. A horizontal window is designed subsequent to the bath, avoiding the view from pedestrian path to make sure privateness, whereas bringing nature into the area. In the meantime, the round skylight on the prime introduces totally different expressions of sunshine and shadows with the change of time and climate. This poetic area additionally serves as the doorway foyer of the home, the place the visitors usually go to and linger.
The Mushroom home adopts a lifted metal construction to reduce the influence of development on the positioning. As time goes by, inexperienced crops on the bottom will progressively unfold to embrace the constructing. The cone-shape roof is cladded with pine woods, whereas the remainder of the home is coated with granolithic concrete. The fabric adjustments in colour with humidity and time, permitting the constructing to harmonize with the encompassing pure surroundings.
-Challenge description and pictures supplied by ZJJZ
