Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021
gad's architectural composition for J.Lalli Valley Villa encodes rich symbolic content through its material vocabulary and spatial organization, inviting interpretation through lenses of dwelling phenomenology and human relationship to landscape. The pronounced horizontality of cantilevered terraces may be understood as gestures of embrace toward the surrounding terrain, extensions of interior sanctuary reaching outward to claim visual and experiential territory while remaining anchored to vertical circulation cores. The chromatic dialogue between warm amber interiors and cool twilight atmosphere activates archetypal associations with hearth and shelter, that fundamental human longing for illuminated refuge against encroaching darkness that resonates across cultural traditions from primordial firelight to contemporary domestic sanctuary. Transparency achieved through extensive glazing suggests values of openness, connection, and dissolution of rigid boundaries between self and world, while glass balustrades function as almost invisible thresholds permitting visual passage while ensuring physical safety. The material trinity of stone, wood, and glass invokes elemental categories of mineral permanence, organic warmth, and crystalline clarity, each contributing distinct symbolic weight to the ensemble. Vertical stacking of levels may evoke aspirational ascent while horizontal extension speaks to grounded connection with earth plane. The presence of mature conifers at the composition's edge introduces evergreen symbolism of continuity and endurance, their vertical forms providing counterpoint to architectural horizontality. Numbers emerge meaningfully: the visible three primary levels suggest dynamic balance and forward movement, while the pairing of material warmth and atmospheric coolness establishes productive duality. The threshold moment of twilight itself carries symbolic freight as liminal time between day and night, activity and rest, outer engagement and inner reflection, positioning this dwelling image as meditation on architecture's capacity to create meaningful containers for human life's perpetual transitions.
This is a mountainous residential project located in J.Lalli. The construction area is 23000 sqm and there are 130 households totally. In order to take into account the profits of developers and the living experience of customers at the same time, the section of the buildings shows that every household located adapting to the mountain terrain and get more sunshine and good view. Moreover, under environment and construction technology thinking, the designer adopted stilt buildings to protect mountain. The application of the fabricated steel structure is a good example for local building.