Author: GarthSweetman

If we translate the name into the local language, The Kinii literally means “the falcon’s nest”. the project signed by the Obicua studio overlooks the top of Powder Mountain, in Utah, offering a panoramic view that stretches over three American states.

And it is precisely from the desire to offer a magnificent glimpse of the naturalistic beauties of the place that the architects of Obicua have conceived and built an open building, with a carefully studied exterior view that allows you to admire the landscape of the region while respecting the surrounding environment. In fact, the project is based on the application of the LEED protocol,

the US system for classifying the energy efficiency and ecological This is why The Kinii reinterprets the concept of a mountain hut in a contemporary and eco-friendly key by applying tonatural context non-invasive logic . The volume, in fact, is compact in order not to lose heat, while the footprint on the ground has been reduced as much as possible to degrade the ground with the construction site as little as possible.

Not only that: the architects decided to create a green roof to increase the insulation, thus creating panoramic terraces protected from freezing winds and excessive irradiation of UV rays. The goal of the Italian architecture studio was to maximize the aesthetic result while respecting the environment .

wrote Aristotle. And the architecture? According to the highly expressive effect of Litibù, the villa designed by the Palma architecture studio , we could say that mirroring convinces even in the art of construction. Especially if, as in this case, the building perfectly designed on the idea of ​​the double restores rigor to an obviously disordered space: the natural landscape.

Among the tropical plants that grow luxuriantly on the Mexican coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the symmetrical geometry of the bungalow built in Litibù , a natural treasure of the Riviera Nayarit, seems to cancel the (tremendously suggestive) landscape chaos to suggest and instill that sense of peace typical of terrestrial paradises that extend across borders. The 50 square meters of the residential area is in fact divided into two macro housing complexes, separated by a small windowed area. On one side there is the living room, on the other the bedroom.

The niche recreated in the center thus acts as an architectural pivot and a characteristic element: the large circular opening that opens onto the floor is like an eye wide open to the outside that immerses the building in the surrounding landscape. The blue of the azure looks at the materiality of the earth and vice versa.