
Ar. Tin Tsin Fong Kee Shui, Mauritius
Winners of Commendation Award - Foreign Countries' Architecture Awards (FCAA)
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Project Name:
Villa and Chalet At La Plantation Margvery
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Year of Commencement:
2012
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Year of Completions:
2013
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Name of Firm:
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Location:
Mauritius
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Size:
567 SqM
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Project type:
Public Building
Project Description
Project contains a main house with 2-level basement, a separate chalet, and a separate garage within a landscaped sloping site with expansive views of mountain and the ocean.
The house borrows its cues from local vernacular vocabulary but has contemporary living attributes. The experience of the house is through a stroll starting from the garage at lower end, through the house verandahs up to chalet, intermingling built form and nature.
Materials of Construction Details:
Concrete
Block walls
Cut-stone
Recycled plastic decking
Recycled synthetic trash
Zinc-alum roof covering
Special Features:
On a very slopy site, we have shaped and merged the house in its surrounding. The end result is a natural flow between built form and scaping.
Between zones have been created as follows: A beautiful cut-stone retaining wall has been created to hold the sloping site, putting no pressure on the house, and letting the house breathe and allowing natural light to enter the side of the basement. Proper skylight brings additional natural light into a planten, allowed air flows; and glazing have allowed expansive views within the house.