Mira, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy – June 2019

Home for family of four with each space open to the heart of the home – its central courtyards where the family would be bound by its activities around it. This H-shaped home consists of three distinguished spaces connected by courtyards and entrance gallery. As you enter from the east, south is dedicated for public space such as living and dining and north to private spaces such as bedrooms and study. Bedroom spaces are two stories to accommodate privacy for the master bedroom at upper level. There is addition roof top garden at the upper level.

This home is design with in the limitations of internal square are of 270 Sq.m, as well as regulations of roof heights, roof angles, boundary distances, and use of external material. Summer and winter solstices are considered and accounted when creating the building shape, courtyards and overhangs. Thus providing sun during the winter and shade during the summer. Additionally all the bedrooms has a ‘staggered’ effect in order to provide framed uninterrupted views to the west.