Within The Box, A Facade Design

The first design I would like to show you is a façade design submitted to a design competition. In this design, I want to highlight how stairs no longer have to be hidden behind walls. Instead, it can be a focal point that attracts people to gather and spend their time in an open space provided on the second floor of this house. The movement of people also becomes a lively display that is attractive, especially when many of the owner’s friends coming to the house and attending a party, right?

The box-like form of this facade meant to display simplicity in the design. Instead making people focus on the house’s form, drawing people’s attention to what is happening inside the space, the void located on the second floor, is the initial idea.

Stairs as focal point in the design.

Within the Box.

For that competition, I submitted two entries, and the second one was simply about playing with forms. What I thought at that time was how to change the simple box design, as I made in the first design, into something less simple, more attractive and more chaotic. The answer I found was to hit the box with a hammer (Wham! Bam!), and, voila, that is the second design. Sometimes being playful is necessary to relieve the stress building up when you’re designing something.

The second design, Wham!, Bam!