Make The Building Float
Castle High is a client-led self-build in a remote part of west Wales. It began with a simple ambition and a difficult one: to make a heavy material feel light. To make it float.
At this scale, architecture lives or dies within its tectonics and careful detailing. Not the concept alone, and not the image, but the way structure becomes the manifestation of the idea.
These studies shared here explore how we made the home appear to float on a sensitive site within a costal national park. The poetry is always in the details…
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