Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies.

Under The Sails / SCEG Architects

Architects: SCEG Architects
Location: Nosy Be, Madagascar
Project Team: SCEG
Interior Décor: SCEG
Project Year: 2014
Photographer: SCEG Architects

Area: 850sqm

- 09 April 2016
- Datum Editorial
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From the Architects
With the House of Sails, four primary volumes on two levels house the interior of the residence.

Under The Sails / SCEG Architects
It utilizes a primary organization with independent spaces connected by wooden pathways and the central patio, mediating element between the inside and the outside, connects the front to the rear, the sea and the forest.

Under The Sails / SCEG Architects

The roof, like a straw tent, covering the volumes to the beach and protects the house from the water, light and wind. The house has a large slanted straw roof that is reminiscent of a sailing yacht, a reference to the Nosy Be area where the private residence is located.

Under The Sails / SCEG Architects

The house mediates between a residential privacy gradient and a outdoor gathering space with the spaces and organizations of the building offering both practical and private spaces that somewhat also open up into an environment outdoors.

Under The Sails / SCEG Architects
It is a bridge between the forest behind and the beach in front, an edifice that carefully utilizes local materials in straw and wood to create a carefully considered ecological addition to the Nosy Be region

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