The Origami Home in Northern Ireland
The woodland approach is choreographed to reveal the dam framed through the carport pavilion. Crossing the footbridge under the embrace of an arching elder, you might be surrounded by the sound on the mountain waterfall.
Conceived as a sequence of 7m square offset pavilions, the house is a thin transition space in between this intimate, watery arrival and also the grandeur with the west going through terrace embracing the fields past.
Upon getting into the residence, one expansive vaulted ceiling – a folded roof of a lot of planes – a lovely piece of origami -with a cacophony of light from your linear rooflight and walls of glass that embrace the ter beyond.
The seven pavilions from the house, like a cluster of single storey cottages, are meticulously woven towards the woodland with the dam and beech trees. Only a single tree was eliminated to assemble the household.