Description
The project weaves past and present, fostering a sustainable, communal way of living. By embracing the site's memory and natural rhythms, we create dwellings that are both rooted and evolving. The project treats the site - its ruins, stones, slopes, and history. The project treats the site - its ruins, stones, slopes, and history - as an extension of the self. The existing ruin walls are not obstacles but parts of the self's memory, foundations on which new life grows. Just as a person builds on their past experience, the architecture builds on the old structures, respecting and thickening them with new, simple human-scale additions. The central courtyar becomes the heart - the inner self- where private and communal life circulates naturally. The stepping, modular forms echo the natural terrain and the use of local materials and climate-conscious design shows a self that is deeply in tune with the rhythms of its surroundings, living lightly and sustainably within its world. Ultimately a seemless extension where personal, communal, and environmental layers are inseparable.