画家湖屋丨拉脱维亚

This house is designed as a temporary home for two painter brothers who can spend several months of the year with their family on a lake in the middle of a quiet, green and beautiful area in Latvia.

The current wooden cottage on the site will be replaced by a new modern house that will provide living space for two families as well as a painting studio. The new house should not only reflect the artistic spirit of the owners, but also be fully connected with the surrounding nature and designed as a sustainable building.

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What distinguishes a

“Painter’s House”

from

“Other Houses”?

DESIGN CONCEPTDialogue of Dualities

An artist’s life tends to be a constant back and forth between two very distinct worlds;

The family zone (Home) and the creativity space (Studio).

The confrontation of these two worlds can be a challenge as they can neither be fully unified nor completely separated. Ideally the artist should be able to move between these two spaces harmoniously and without friction.

Facilitating this simultaneous "DUALITY” is the essence of this design. A challenge of how to form a space using two different aspects without conflicts. An attempt to "respect the differences" and let the "being different" coexist…

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