This is a practical project, designed to solve more than adequately functional, physical and psychological requirements of the owner that travels in a wheelchair and his family , creating three different worlds, one on each floor , connected by a common shaft, a lift.
The architect proposed a house, or actually three houses, one over the other. In it the owner would have their own "space" , or rather "station": the lifting platform. The motion of the elevator continuously changes the architecture of the house. A machine is its heart.
Like the Kunsthal and home in Holten, Balmond collaboration with Koolhaas set allows structural elements based on their own metaphorical figures, so in this project are the challenges of a difficult synthesis between these figures, the program and structure, which are unified in a system that no longer have the degree of freedom allowed by the university, Tektonik or Cadavre Exquis.
The building is composed of three houses superimposed over each other: three floors of a completely different nature and clear visual contrast. the lower ground floor is dug into the rocky hillside and is available in several caves, the plant is in the midst of glass and transparent, and the top floor is divided into several rooms.