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Kunkel house
Santorini, Greece
1991-1992
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The house is located on the top of a gentle hill. Its exterior presence is loosely inspired by the imposing way on which the Greek temples sit on the landscape. This source of inspiration brought about a number of conflicting issues among them and perhaps most importantly the problem of how to reconcile the physical and psychical scale of a one family home with the scale of a temple built for the gods. The house in this sense has the character and the psiquis of a sanctuary, a heavily enclosed sanctuary. The perimeter walls have been developed by carefully placing and selecting openings to allow natural light and views and to plastically help to compose the facades. The rather formalistic facades. The generator of the interior spatial organization is the patio. All the spaces revolve around it.
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