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Pavilion Ponderosa

Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi

PAVILION PONDEROSA

Paolo Cucchi Architects

ARCHITECTS
Paolo Cucchi Architects

LOCATION
Johor Bahru, Malaysia

CATEGORY
Extension

PHOTOGRAPHS
Virginia Cucchi

ENGINEER
Perunding TLK

YEAR
2016

AREA
320.0 m2

LEAD ARCHITECT
Paolo Cucchi

GREEN CONSULTANT
Neapoli

CONTRACTOR
Telford Signature

MANUFACTURERS
Poliform, Boffi, Davide Groppi, Gessi, Henge, Minotti, Neutra, Novacolor, Viabizzuno

Text description provided by architect.

The project develops on about 0,86 acres and is located in the North-East of Johor Bahru, Malaysia, inside a high-end gated area, just next to a prominent golf course, surrounded by abundant greenery.

Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi
Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi

The client, the owner of two adjacent plots of land, approached us asking to organise the parcel facing his existing bungalow with swimming pool, tennis court and pavilion.

He expected an extroverted building able to release expansiveness as well as to guarantee privacy, an escape that could help to feel well after a day of work and at the same time a place to share with friends. 

Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi
Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi
Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi

Architecture and landscape, closely blended together, offer a harmonic ensemble where water, greenery, and light play the primary role of regeneration.

Essential modern idiom, material and visual contaminations  between outside and inside maximize the sensorial experience to live closely connected with the beauty of nature, and its calming and soothing power.

Compact and porous, the pavilion, nestled on a strip of current water, opens up at the center, offering the feeling to sit immersed in the tropical context.

Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi
Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi
Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi

Glass voids break the travertine envelope and glimpses of the garden invade the internal space. 

The rhythm of running water, from the sprightly jets along the granite wall fence, performs a miracle of freshness, provoking and renewing emotions.

Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi
Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi

Attentive combination of light, natural and artificial, rhythmically enhances the belt of fluidity that embraces and nurtures as vital lymph the composition.


Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi
Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi
Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi
Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi
Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi
Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi
Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi
Pavilion Ponderosa
© Virginia Cucchi


Pavilion Ponderosa
Concept drawing
Pavilion Ponderosa
Drawing


Pavilion Ponderosa
Elevations
Pavilion Ponderosa
Sections


Pavilion Ponderosa
Floor plan details
Pavilion Ponderosa
Ground floor plan


Pavilion Ponderosa
Concept sketches

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