Malaspina Design

Contemporary living cannot evolve as quickly as people’s desired lifestyles. In the US Pacific Northwest, Malaspina delivers a limited series of residences with innovative design, stunning interiors, and sustainable solutions. M1 House is the first of them.

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The house around a tree

M1 House is, basically, a floating roof over a series of stepped platforms following the natural topography of the selected lot. This very simple conceptual stance provides rich spatial situations, combining views, nature and a certain continuity between the exterior and the interior that allow a very intense experience of the context. The house is organized in one single floor. Life flows quietly in one-floor houses and the attachment to the ground, to the views and to nature are especially strong. At the same time, multiple exterior accesses provide a big independence for users. The presence of a magnificent Ponderosa Pinetree quite in the middle of the lot arranges the different rooms around in a remarkably simple manner. Circulations are therefore circular and continuous; spaces are linked within a rich sequence. Further vegetation completes this inside-outside diagram enhances both worlds: the exterior natural area and the patio domestic garden.

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