Vernacular

“THE EVOCATIVE TRACES TO THE OLD TOWN TAKUA PA” The pride in her status as ‘Baba-Nyonya’ 峇峇娘惹 (The descendants from the interethnic marriage of the Chinese settlers and native inhabitants of Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Archipelago) is an impression that we, Studio Locomotive, have collected from meeting with ‘Mother’ (the member of the project’s owner family) during the making of ‘Hotel Gahn’ through her dressing in a floral laced blouse, batik sarong, beaded slippers, and fine antique gold jewelry, her home-cooking recipe, and her reminiscences of the ways of living in her hometown.   The mother’s ancestry traced to her grandfather during a prosperous time of tin mining... More

This luxury hotel resort was designed to become a hidden sanctuary in one of China’s most emblematic regions. Sitting on the slope of a mountain the resort is constructed in such way that it naturally integrates itself into the local culture via architecture, planning, and detailing. The blending of tradition with the expectations of the cotemporary Chinese traveler sets its view into a new era of china’s tourism. As one of the fastest-growing tourist destinations in the Chinese province of Yunnan, this resort makes a great leap forward with the development of the Chinese luxury style resort. It is in this wonderful enclave that OAD, Office for Architecture + Design, designed for the Dalian Wanda Group this luxurious resort hotel that... More

14th and 15th edition of the International Garden Festival, Grand-Métis, Québec. « The installation offers and leads the visitor into a poetic fiction of the «sacred» side of garden and culinary heritage. » Sacré potager is an installation exhibited at the 14th and 15th and 16th edition of the International Garden Festival, held in Grand-Métis, Québec in 2013, 2014 and 2016. In 2015, the installation was exposed at Musée des beaux-arts de Québec. Sacré Potager was chosen by the jury for this international competition from among the 290 proposals submitted by more than 700 designers from 31 countries. Sacré Potager (literally, the sacred vegetable garden) evokes the sacred nature of plants and their special place in our world. For m... More

This house is designed with prime focus with landscape. This is a first climate oriented house plan. It has a summer garden and a winter garden. Here the plan forms "Z". Thus it creates two garden spaces on south side and north side, the south side garden is designed like a "forest " to help tree plantations to create shadows on the building. This used of garden gets sun in morning till late evening, thus ideal to use in winter. Where north side garden has more lawn area, which has shadow of building in afternoon and evening. It gets good morning sun and than later part of a day is shaded. Thus it becomes summer garden to use in hot days. Each space has a view to garden. And we planned different philosophy to experience the garden fr... More

This house stands out unique and very first of its kind in HPA’s folio. The house is in Indian tropical climate just few minutes away from Ocean. Since both, client and we adore the tropical landscape we wanted to achieve the quality, which completes the surroundings, and vice versa. The very texture of client’s sustainable lifestyle has woven into design and execution as well. A narrow paved passage beautifully covered by native plants leads to vestibule & open verandah. Open verandah faces green lawn and plantation on three sides. Vestibule connects family room and living room, while verandah is also an extension of formal living room. The central structure of house consists of formal living room and dining room, which opens to back ve... More