Nassau House
This house is designed to be introverted, there are no external openings, all the rooms are facing the interior courtyards of different dimensions. The reason for this is that despite being built on a beautiful island, the lot is on a built suburban area with no natural scenery and the neighbors houses are very near and of no special aesthetic qualities.
Each room is designed to have opposite openings so as to create natural ventilation, sometimes through doors or windows and sometimes through skylights.
Because of the Bahamas latitude, the interiors that are not facing north are all protected by the shadow of the exterior wall that with different heights shape also the skyline of the building. The game of diagonal moving walls is also resumed on the ground with diagonal volumes of grassland climbing on the white exterior walls and hiding the linear lightning for the facades.
The main courtyard features a small swimming pool with a side bordering, with a glass split up, a water pond with aquatic plants and carps; so that from the underwater of the pool you can admire the adjacent aquarium view.
Nassau House
Location: Nassau, Bahamas
Client: Private
Cost: 230.000$