Atrium House

The Atrium House project emerged in response to a borderline condition between a semi-garden natural landscape and a dense surrounding fabric where living simultaneously demands privacy, connection, and engagement with light and view.

Our design strategy was grounded in creating an inward-looking, serene space shaped by natural light and airflow, a space that chooses silence over expression, and internal quality over outward display.

In designing this project, our focus was on human-centered and experiential architecture. Every spatial decision was based on the perceived quality for the resident: the scale of spaces, the sequence of circulation, the intensity and angle of light, and the physical relationship between people and spatial boundaries.

The project centers around an atrium an empty yet meaningful void that defines the spatial and movement structure of the house. The atrium is not merely a light source, but a transitional space for pause, breath, and observation.

In designing it, we focused on the quality of stillness within mass where light and silence coexist, and space transforms into a temporal experience.

The spatial organization of the project is based on multilayered thinking layers that converse through depth, height, and function. Unlike conventional linear structures, this project has a circular and networked spatiality.

Views are purposefully and selectively framed, vertical connections are interwoven with horizontal planes, and the spatial experience guides the inhabitant from surface to depth, from openness to enclosure.

The section in this project was not merely a final product, but a design tool. From the outset, we understood the architecture in sectional cut revealing the interplay of light, geometry, solids and voids, and level differences.

The project’s volumetric form was shaped based on this vertical, space-oriented perspective: carving the mass to bring in light, hollowing to create privacy, and extending depth to lower levels to preserve spatial continuity.

Natural light is the central element of the spatial structure. Its path was calibrated to ensure that lighting quality across different spaces would be varied and intentional.

The interplay of light and shadow from skylights, the refraction of light through deep walls, and the reflection of water from the pool’s surface all imbue the space with a vibrant, temporal quality placing the architecture in dialogue with the rhythm of day and season.

In the project’s formal language, we remained committed to structural minimalism: flat surfaces, linear openings, and pure forms created a calm space free of visual noise.

This apparent simplicity serves as a foundation for spatial and emotional complexity to emerge within.
The façade maintains privacy not through exaggeration, but through quietude, inviting the observer to discover what lies within.

For us, Atrium House was not merely the design of a building, but an exercise in redefining dwelling one that transforms into a lived and human experience through light, section, silence, and layering.