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Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Bach with 2 Roofs in New Zealand by irving smith architectsNovember 23rd, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: irving smith architects New Zealand was the last landmass to be inhabited, and then deforested with unrivalled speed. Its new cleared landscapes are still so young they shift, when they fail new native trees grow. It might take a hundred years or more, but buildings that participate in this shift could one day inhabit near-original forest. This is something new, for New Zealand architecture was established and has remained in clearings. To inhabit its original forest landscape, architecture must understand existing context rather than generate new landscapes, it must be soft, patient and ready to change; as we exhibited at the 2015 Prague International Architecture Festival entitled Soft-Context:Soft-Architecture.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds
 Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds Bach-with-Two-Roofs found itself in a shifting landscape. We designed four buildings between 2007 and 2112 to provide holiday accommodation in an exotic forest. Sheltering low beneath imported eucalypts, the buildings have sacrificial roofing and recessive interiors, and share the space between trees. Holidays were private and hidden.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds In 2014 a cyclone cleared the forest. The two roofs limit damage, but the buildings require more than repair, they need re-finishing. Without the trees the site is exposed, the wind stronger, the sun hotter, even the building’s colour and proportions feel misplaced. Holidays here aren’t supposed to be about hiding and finding shade.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds The post-cyclone additions re-finish the buildings to the new clearing, but do so by understanding a landscape that continues to shift, and a native forest that in time will again conceal and shelter. A shade building is added, filtering light and sitting low for the main buildings to recede behind. Frames tack lightly to existing structures, widening cover and shadow to provide privacy and retreat. But these new elements are adaptable and expect to be repositioned and changed as the forest grows. Holidays resume, but being finished is finished, this landscape is shifting… Bach with Two Roofs is a live project in ongoing doctoral research and a Masters teaching program at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © irving smith architects
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