The villa is a five-room family house with a building area of about 650 ㎡. Located in a private alley, the surrounding environment is very safe and calm. The owner's design brief refers to the Japanese-style dry landscape courtyard of Ryōan-ji Temple. The homeowner wants to have a similar drained landscape courtyard in the house. The noise of some mosques around the area, as well as the foul smell emitted by landfills when it rains, also caused problems at the site.

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Generally, in tropical climates, we try to avoid closed courtyards as much as possible due to intense sun and heat. This house is an exception, we took a different design approach and made it from the outside. Then we created a closed, drained courtyard with the same large skylight as the courtyard, because we wanted to let the sun in and create shade on the pebbles, just like in a temple. Also by elevating skylights to create a chimney effect, skylights can be manually operated through roof hatches and narrow aisles to open and close windows to control odors and noise. These also allow hot air to escape and enhance the natural ventilation below.

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Architects try to install as many doors and windows as possible in a south-north direction to form cross-ventilation to prevent heat build-up in the house. When the doors and windows of the house are open, you will feel the natural breeze passing through the house, so there is no need for space air conditioning. There is also a secret window behind the aluminum sheet, which can be safely opened all day. The architect also simulated the shadow direction of the skylight and minimized the frame to create clean shadow lines on these walls in the direction the architect wanted. Shadows move from one side to the other throughout the day. The walls on the upper level around the yard are separated from the ceiling, leaving a small gap to let the heat out of the corridor and bring natural light into the corridor, so there is no need to turn on artificial lights during the day. This gap also creates a Japanese paper lantern-like effect floating in space. The corridor wall with small straight cuts is to give privacy to the bedroom and highlight the courtyard below.

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