Inverted Home rethinks suburban residing on the hillside of Tbilisi, Georgia, the place TIMM confronts a neighborhood of fences by turning the dwelling inward. The only-family home in Okrokana replaces the standard boundary wall with inhabitable structure, shaping each day life round two gardens slightly than distant views. Inside this protecting perimeter, mild, proportion, and a calibrated use of wooden and white surfaces set the tone for calm, introverted domesticity.
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From the slender road, a darkish timber quantity pulls again simply sufficient to type a shallow forecourt. Gentle slips over the recessed facade, hinting at a world tucked behind its charred floor. Step previous the edge and the town’s noise falls away; the home redirects consideration inward, towards planted floor and pale partitions catching the sky.
This single-family home in Okrokana, on Tbilisi’s hillside edge, responds to a district the place fences dominate greater than views. TIMM treats these constraints not as background circumstances however as uncooked materials, reimagining enclosure as liveable perimeter. The mission concentrates on how a protecting outer shell, a softer courtyard ring, and a pale inside work collectively to recast home life round an inside horizon.
As a substitute of putting a compact quantity behind a separate wall, the constructing stretches alongside the property boundary and turns into the fence. Rooms and terraces observe the perimeters of the plot, enclosing an inside void that reads as open-air corridor slightly than yard. Alongside the road, the amount steps barely again, trimming the exhausting line between sidewalk and threshold and making a shallower zone that mediates on a regular basis arrivals.
Two gardens construction what occurs on both aspect of this inhabited perimeter. Towards the road, the outer backyard negotiates visibility and distance, permitting the low entrance quantity to sit down in inexperienced slightly than in uncooked asphalt. Inside, the courtyard turns into the true middle of the home, a planted flooring ringed by glass and white planes the place each day routines flip towards mild as an alternative of towards neighboring partitions.
Courtyard Frames Each day Life
Entrance corridor, lounge, and kitchen align alongside the inside edge so each essential room addresses the courtyard immediately. The courtyard reads virtually as one other room, solely roofless, pulling daylight deep into the plan and giving every degree a constant focus. A suspended swimming pool spans the void above a part of this planted middle, shading an out of doors space under whereas stitching higher flooring collectively in part.
Behind the plot, the perimeter wall grows right into a three-story quantity that holds extra personal rooms. Towards the road, the mass drops to a single degree, maintaining the city frontage low and compressed. This sectional shift permits a double-height residing space and a sequence of half-levels, so motion via the home seems like a gradual climb alongside the perimeter, with the courtyard at all times in orbit.
Shell, Backyard, Core
Materials transitions reinforce the mission’s inversion of inside and out of doors. Avenue-facing surfaces are clad in charred wooden, utilizing a conventional weatherproofing method to ascertain a dense, virtually armored shell. Across the courtyard, that darkish cladding provides approach to pure timber, the place grain, colour, and texture draw folks nearer and soften the enclosing ring.
Crossing from backyard ring to inside core, the palette turns fully white. Partitions, ceilings, and built-in components recede into this pale discipline, permitting mild, shadow, and proportion to outline every room’s character. The impact will not be ornamental; it sharpens consciousness of the courtyard greenery, the nice and cozy timber thresholds, and the deep-black exterior shell that holds every little thing collectively.
Working With Enclosure
Okrokana’s slender streets and tall fences typically compress on a regular basis expertise into skinny strips of yard and inside. Right here, that very same tradition of enclosure is turned on its head and folded into the mission’s construction. The perimeter stops being a line to cover behind and turns into a lived edge, thickened with rooms, terraces, and bridges.
By absorbing the fence into the constructing mass, the home transforms a plot with out outward views into a spot oriented round its personal inside world. On this setting, enclosure is now not a defensive reflex however a calibrated instrument: it gathers household life inward, controls publicity, and lets a rigorously layered palette construct depth from road to courtyard to room.
As day strikes over the hillside, the charred shell darkens in shadow whereas the inside timber and white volumes brighten. The mission sits firmly inside its walled neighborhood but proposes one other approach to inhabit such density. Privateness is maintained, however the inside gardens and calibrated supplies preserve the each day expertise open, luminous, and quietly expansive.
Pictures by Grigory Sokolinsky
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