Solo House II

This project was a partner study to begin to analyze precedent and study it in both 2D and 3D. Solo House II sits in the wilderness of Matarraria. It is circular in plan, forty-five meters in diameter, and completely transparent with the use of glass, and moving screens to emphasize the natural landscape. The architects, Kersten Geers and David Van Severen, known for their idiosyncratic styles, based the geometry of the building on a square within a circle creating four rooms around an internal courtyard with a pool that overlooks the edge of the plateau.

Even though the organization of the space is separated to have minimal living needs, Geers and Severen encourages clients to inhabit the house however they see fit; autonomy is said to be the concept of the architecture. Likewise, being so far away from civilization, Solo House II is fully equipped with water tanks, a filter, a boiler, solar panels, and batteries that are celebrated, made to be abstract sculptures to adorn the roof of the house. Commissioned by French developer Christian Bourdais, Geers and Severen's work is one of fifteen other holiday homes on the site, but it is a challenging piece that is as much about the theory as it is about the form.