GARDEN HOUSE

A floating cuboid pavilion, a glass box filled with opalescent steam, and above it, multiple vaults of oriented blur floating pavilion, a glass box filled with opalescent steam, and above it, two barrel vaults of glass bricks: this private greenhouse for tropical plants, Chile, unites the alpha and omega of glass architecture.

The vaults hark back to the maximum sun rays direction, while the cubic glass reflects the environment and protects plants from everything. But here the inhabitant is foliage once again, and the greenhouse, displaying its living contents as if in a vitrine, is fitted with automated systems for the maintenance of the kind of warm and humid climate that it requires. The illusion is of control over nature  something you cannot control.