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“‘I wanted to create a space that embraces the body. The idea was to insert a protective layer – like a cocoon or set of clothes – within the existing building’s hard shell. I wanted you to feel like you could occupy the whole place while being in just one space at a time.’

The project’s capacity to connect with older values and the particularities of place, while dressed in sleek modern clothes, may help explain its popularity with Biennial visitors – many of whom are wrestling with similar issues of identity and change in their own lives. According to visitor response cards, Saee’s scheme was the most popular.”

 

Pearson, Clifford A. “Projects: Template House.” Architectural Record Sept. 2005: 144-51. Print.