Wabi Sabi Houses. In conceiving this house and while walking the site the work began to coalesce around an idea of textures materials and expressed joinery and connections. Play with your senses.
The philosophy of Wabi Sabi includes serenity and calm and a great love and respect for nature. Wabi-sabi espouses simplicity and honesty in expression those modest things in our world that express beauty as they weather and age. Chan who was architecturally trained in Australia cultivated a love for the outdoors there.
But here it is a whole new level of it.
The shell was built with the help of professional builders at harmonwickedwoodworking. Set in a traditional residential neighborhood of Houston close to Rice University and near the cultural center of the city the 3-bedroom 3- baths 3750 square-foot wooden house combines the beauty of natural materials and simple modern forms. A home based on wabi-sabi should be a place where you feel absolutely free and unrestrained to relax to meditate but also to create and develop your creativity. Nicknamed House 44 the home fuses the familiarities of a simple Australian verandah house that is in dialogue with Malaysias tropical climate while borrowing from the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi.