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Villalucy, A Majestic Prefab Home on a Cliff’s Edge Overlooking the Pacific Ocean by wpa Studio

March 02, 2011 Filed Under: Homes Design

Villalucy is a beautiful contemporary residence, a prefabricated home which was designed in Port Townsend, Washington. The architecture, wpa Studio, design this modern prefab house on 1,400 square foot and this house takes the advantage of the gorgeous Pacific Ocean which can be seen just right from the windows. This prefab home that wpa Studio designed is the perfect antidote for the toxic city living. You can escape the toxic city life and enjoy the perched house that floats above the soft fragile ground.

Here’s more of what’s going on inside this modern prefab house designed by the architect;

“You enter the house through a bar – an attenuated service zone dense with the practicalities of bathrooms, kitchen, storage and utility supply. Beyond the bar, the real living rooms are entirely open to the view and interpretation. This space is purposely abstract – stripped of air registers or built-in furniture, any tagging suggesting how it might or should be used. The house is a lookout, a delicately detailed observation platform from which to view what’s beyond rather than a set piece in a highly articulated domestic drama. Here you are exposed, even susceptible, to the moods and rhythms of the land you see and the light you see it in. And because the house is not tied to any set script, you are free to respond. The identical steel moment frames that make up the structure of the building were fabricated offsite. This prefabrication minimized the staging area needed to build the house. Since the erection of the frames could be choreographed precisely, the balance of the construction could take place in the air – on a platform supported by these frames hovering en pointe above the existing topography. Over the course of the construction, phases of the work were scheduled with the help of a wildlife biologist to protect an eagle’s nest with newborn chicks 60 feet off the house.”

Villalucy (1)