House Elvesgarden Privat Residence by Stephan Maria Lang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
SilverArchitecture· 2021
House Elvesgarden Privat Residence
Client: Stephan Maria Lang Architects
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About House Elvesgarden Privat Residence
The project was an attempt to create something powerful without being loud. A sensitive place that gives tranquility and offers various perspectives to the surrounding nature. It is all about light and the countless approaches to its counterpart: the shadow. The house was build for a young widow as a retreat for her soul. The atmosphere is influenced by the Japanese culture of semi dark shadowed rooms where the colors seem damped and the glow comes from within. A world where darkness is full of warmth and profound colorfulness.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
House Elvesgarden Privat Residence is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. House Elvesgarden Privat Residence is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. House Elvesgarden Privat Residence is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Your innovative approach to creating House Elvesgarden Privat Residence as a spiritual retreat for a young widow speaks volumes about architecture's healing potential - could you elaborate on how you translated emotional needs into architectural elements?
The project is an attempt to create something powerful without being loud. A sensitive place that renders tranquillity and offers various perspectives to the surrounding nature at all seasons.The key issue is an architecture deeply connected with nature, developed and set in context to the native forest like landscape. Any architecture needs to be deeply bound to nature and the change of light.
The interplay of light and shadow in House Elvesgarden Privat Residence seems deeply influenced by Japanese design philosophy - what specific aspects of Japanese culture inspired your approach to creating these semi-dark, warmly shadowed spaces?
It is all about light and the countless approaches to its counterpart: the shadow. Large glass openings to the west and east terraces connect to the garden, vertical openings to the south let direct sunlight in the depth of the room. Green light filtered by large trees is reflected by the shiny bronze plastered fireplace und the glossy painted ceilings. The play of shadows is absorbed at the inner grass wallpaper covered walls and the dark toned oak floor.
The entrance courtyard of House Elvesgarden Privat Residence appears to serve as a powerful threshold between the outside world and this sanctuary - how did you conceptualize this transitional space to create such a profound shift in experience?
Entering the gravelled entrance courtyard from the street in the west corner of the property, you leave the outside world behind. One Catalpa tree placed to frame the house cast it’s shadow on two huge subtle positioned stonewalls that guide to the entrance of the house and hide the main garden space from the street. Winding stepping stones carefully set lead to the canyon like entrance of the main house. Directly opposite t you see a small” elves gate” that invites visitor for a stroll in the garden if you accept the invitation and follow the stepping stones.
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Entering the gravelled entrance courtyard from the street,you leave the outside world behind.
A house tree gives protection and makes beautiful shade paintings on the 2 huge subtle positioned stonewalls that mark the entrance to the house and directly opposite the elvesgate entrance to the main garden.
The Ground floor is a generous open space but intimate.
A centred bronze fireplace is the heart of the living area, surrounded by different gardens views.
The upper Floor contains her private rooms. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 1600 m2
- Tags
- House, garden, natural materials, light, pool
- Production Technology
- Concrete, steel, wood, stone, glass
- Research
- So, it is no wonder that the architecture is deeply connected with nature. The garden with its forest like atmosphere was really the starting point of the project. A major dream from the owner was namely to have her first garden she dreamt of since her childhood.
- Inspiration
- It was more than an aesthetic exercise.
It was a spiritual retreat, a place to cleanse body and soul.
The house was build for a young widow as a retreat for her soul.
The atmosphere is influenced by the Japanese culture of semi dark shadowed rooms where the colours seem damped and the glow comes from within. A world where darkness is full of warmth and profound colourfulness. - Project Duration
- The project started in 2017 in Munich and finished in 2019
- Operation Flow
- The project was an attempt to create something powerful without being loud. A sensitive place that gives tranquility and offers various perspectives to the surrounding nature.
It is all about light and the countless approaches to its counterpart: the shadow. - Patents
- Stephan Maria Lang
- Team Members
- Steffi Senula
Annamaria Papp-Ionescu - Image Credits
- Sebastian Kolm
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