Robert Harvey Oshatz is not just an architect. She is - as the website of his studio states - also an artist, a dream maker, an explorer of already existing spaces. For this reason, when in 1997, a client asked him to build a house among the trees that could become part of the natural landscape and able to "face" the flow of music, the multifaceted American architect immediately set to work.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
I am one of those millions of people who dreamed of a suggestive and exciting as a child tree house. Place where I wanted to live my adventures, my games, my dreams. Unfortunately, however, either because I have always lived in cities where concrete and buildings have been the masters or you want my whims not to have been so effective in the emotion of my parents, I have never had the tree house . Having learned of a singular news, I began to believe it again. Even if I am no longer a child and I no longer need to play, it seems that living in a tree is possible even as a “grown-up”.
Robert Harvey Oshatz he is not just an architect. It is - as the website of his study states - also a 'artist, a dream maker, an explorer of existing spaces. For this reason, when in 1997, a client asked him to build a house among the trees that could become part of the natural landscape and able to "face" the flow of music, the multifaceted American architect immediately set to work.
The customer, in fact, was too often the victim of calls from other condominiums precisely because of his unbridled passion for music. So from this protest arises Wilkinson Residence: the residence to be able to live in solitude, among the trees and without depriving yourself of the pleasure of music.
The project was completed in 2004 a Portland, Oregon. A privileged realization with nature that does not undermine the needs of practicality and comfort at all. A large living room, a dining room, a room for meditation, all surrounded by large terraces. The choice of wood and the prevalence of organic forms are obvious, but no less beautiful. The roof also floats between lamellar beams passing through a glass wall that surrounds the main hall.You should really walk around the house to grasp the complexity of the structure and fully understand its connection to the outside. For now we can't, let's be content with seeing the photos of this fantastic as well as archetypal example of architecture integrated into the landscape. Alessandro Ribaldi
