자연을 CMYK로 나타낼 수 있을까? 건축가 MCKNHM Architects의 대답은 "예스"다. CMYK 하우스는 기존 수변가에 위치한 주거 증측프로젝트로 기존 박공지붕의 주거를 포함한 3개의 파빌리온으로 구성된다. 각기 다른 포지셔닝의 파빌리온은 주출입구에 위치한 워크샵 및 차고 파빌리온과 사우나, 게스트 하우스를 포함하는 두번째 파빌리온 그리고 수변의 아름다운 풍경을 감상 할 수 있는 오픈형 테라스를 포함한 박공지붕 파빌리온으로 구성된다.
특히 이번 프로젝트를 유니크하게 만드는 파사드 디자인은 주변 자연환경을 이미지화한 픽셀을 다시 여러개의 컬러도트로 표현하며 또다른 방향으로 자연을 이야기 한다. 이러한 패턴디자인은 파사드로 다가갈수록 수많은 도트들로 구성된 그래픽이 보이고 파사드로 멀어질 수록 자연 속으로 은폐하는 위장막 같은 이미지로 변신한다. 여기 반투명한 청록색, 분홍색, 노란색, 도트는 이러한 패턴을 구성하는 인자로 자연을 건축속으로 삽입하는 키가 된다.
reviewed by SJ
CMYK House
When the father of the client bought the plot of land besides an open gravel pit south of Moers, Germany in the late fifties, it was still unclear if the mine would be converted into a landfill of garbage or a lake. Luckily, the family ended up with a villa at an idyllic lake that is surrounded by a forest.
Because of the possible landfill at the time of construction, the house was orientated away from this now beautiful nature reserve: An existing garage was blocking the view towards the lake. The extensive paved driveway was situated between the house and the fantastic nature setting. Inside the house, none of the spaces provides a view of the lake.
Team: Mark Mueckenheim, Frank Zeising, Jasmin Bonn
Landscape Architecture: Sebastian Riesop
Context
The new addition is set to solve these problems. The approach towards the site places three pavilions onto the park-like property. They are positioned in a way to achieve new spatial qualities in-between the old building and new additions, helping to connect the lake with the existing house.
At the same time the old house with its white plaster façade and its black double pitched roof, that evoked a sense of melancholy and displays a certain stuffiness in its German fifties zeitgeist needed a more fresh addition. Therefore, the extension is also supposed to add a friendlier and playful atmosphere.
Three pavilions
The workshop and garage is moved and situated as an autonomous pavilion towards the entrance of the site. A second pavilion accommodates a sauna and guesthouse, which is assigned to the existing house and directly orientated to the lake through an open terrace. A third pavilion is situated on top of the roof of the old house, extending the existing attic into a workspace and lounge with a beautiful lake-view.
Façade
All new additions are clad with a special façade, made up from a building textile that features a colourful but also camouflaging print that was developed through a very close and intensive design process with the client. The print fulfils a number of tasks: It is an image that is very roughly pixilated by a halftone pattern, which is exaggerated in a way, that by close distance the façade only displays big dots in the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Kay colour realm.
These dots create a pattern, which is also a reminiscent to the petticoats of the fifties, adding a playful colour palette and graphic to the existing situation. The colour scheme of the pixilated image is intentionally reflected by the landscaping, consisting of wild flower meadows.
From a middle distance, the human eye interpolates the colours a shaded and textured surface of brown and green seems to appear, leading to a camouflage effect. The additions seem to blend within the colour palette of the site.
Only from far distance at the lake, the image will appear: A forest landscape with a deer, a classic and conservative German motive giving an ironic touch to the existing building and a reference to its history, as the father of the client was a hunter and the house was filled with stuffed animals at the time the son took it over.
Interiors
The interior spaces are highly flexible the pavilions feature a 'multi-wall' that is designed as a 'hollow' 1,20m thick wall or woodblock, which functions as a storage that is accessible from both inside and outside. The sauna-pavilion has a 'multi-cube' that houses the actual sauna and also a space for technical equipment, a wardrobe and bathroom fixtures on the outside. Through these interventions, the space becomes highly flexible and also open, the space is one continuum, there are no doors separating the bathroom from the Sauna.
Camouflage / Blending In
The concept of the building is creating a new experience on the site and adding something very playful and friendly. At the same time the building is blending into its natural environment. In this sense the addition mediates the genius loci of the existing building and the natural environment the architecture is not an alien anymore it becomes more natural.
Some measures were taken to not only blend the house visually into its context but also to provide a tactile sense of dematerialisation that is reflected in the actual construction. All building details aim to hide the physical thickness of the construction and create a very light to paper thin appearance quality. The parapet flashing is set behind the façade, visible doors and windows are encased in a metal siding which peaks to a millimetre thick tip that hides the real wall thickness, the textile façade is wrapped around the corners and has a very minimal aluminium frame.
from dezeen