Text description provided by the architects. For this renovation of a family home in Kabulonga (Lusaka), the architects opted to allow the maximum amount of light and views to penetrate the house – with only a few interventions.
Multiple layers of walls with differing materials and hierarchy has been structured as layers of skin that wraps a pre-existing core. By going through the act of peeling the skin, one layer at a time, a gradient of light and brightness is constructed. A gradient that plays both with the movement of light and the movement of body.
Each layer of skin embodies a different kind of materiality that expresses both a different kind of texture and a different kind of personality. The outer most layer expresses a flatness that retains depth through the layers inside that have a sense /of raw and unfinished core.
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