➤ Photo by Rafael Gamo
720 度住宅
House 720 Degrees
關於建築價值的真諦，不僅僅是歷代建築師深究和追尋的核心命題，亦是生活其中的人們應在日常審視後，賦予空間的共同定義。從建築師 Fernanda Canales 在設計、城市規劃與研究領域的長期實踐來看，她持續關注的是：建築不應被視為孤立物件，它應建立於超越與其共存空間關係的基礎，這種嶄新思維在當代背景尤為重要。
The true value of architecture has never been a question for architects alone. However deeply generations of designers have pursued it, a space is equally defined by the people who inhabit it and, through the attentiveness of daily life, give it shared meaning. Across her long practice in design, urban planning, and research, Fernanda Canales has returned to one abiding concern: architecture should not be understood as an isolated object. It should be grounded in the spatial relationships that make coexistence possible, an outlook that feels especially urgent today.
➤ Photo by Rafael Gamo
➤ Photo by Camila Cossio
既然建築立於地球上，是否該傾聽各方聲音，不論有聲的存在或無聲的盼望，都嘗試用包容心態將萬物納為空間的一部分？位距墨西哥城三小時車程的僻靜山谷中，「720 度住宅」的存在便提出回應，憑藉其圓環外型，不單勾起人們的好奇心，更將中央庭院化作流動的樞紐，讓居住生活與戶外景致和諧交融，實踐了 Fernanda Canales 本著關懷與共存的倫理。
If architecture stands on the earth, should it not listen to the many presences around it, voiced and silent alike, and make room for them within space itself? Set in a secluded valley three hours from Mexico City, House 720 Degrees offers one answer. Its ring-shaped form does more than stir curiosity. It turns the central patio into a fluid hinge, allowing domestic life and the surrounding landscape to flow into one another, and giving form to Fernanda Canales’s ethic of care and coexistence.
➤ Photo by Rafael Gamo
放眼全球，環形建築並不少見。不過，這座供兩個家庭居住的住宅，卻對生命體、建築和環境的共生關係提出了獨到見解，設計思考並非僅僅出於造型，而是由外而內全面細微配置， Fernanda 觀察到當地起伏地勢和周圍自然景觀，以及內外世界如何彼此作用的方式展開，選擇在保留現有植被的前提下，使量體呈圓形圍塑出開敞的中央庭院，並以低矮姿態謙遜地融入地景。如此一來，建築化作一座如日晷般記錄時間流轉龐大的幾何與光學裝置，隨太陽運行的軌跡捕捉光影，亦將 360 度的視野延伸擴展開來。
Circular buildings are hardly rare. Yet this house, designed for two families, offers a distinctive reading of the symbiotic relationship between life, architecture, and environment. The project is not driven by form alone. It is shaped from the outside in, through a careful response to the site’s undulating topography, the surrounding landscape, and the ways in which inner and outer worlds might interact. Preserving the existing vegetation, Canales shaped the main volume into a circle around an open central patio and kept it deliberately low so that it settles modestly into the land. The result is a large-scale geometric and optical device, almost like a sundial, recording the passage of time through shifting light and shadow while extending the familiar 360-degree field of vision.
➤ Photo by Rafael Gamo
➤ Photo by Rafael Gamo
➤ Photo by Rafael Gamo
➤ Photo by Rafael Gamo
在這裡，居者無時無刻都能察覺到建築與環境的密切互動，彷彿了有生命般：白天，它能向外敞開，框住山峰和火山景致；夜晚的生活重心則回到內向圓形庭院，營造私密而溫暖的氛圍。顧及隱私和開放性的平衡，主宅的圓形布局內以矩形體塊於地面層配置臥室、衛浴、衣帽間和廚房等機能，並以大型摺疊窗、框景和隱私屏風貫穿整體，讓居者可依當下心情調度空間的虛實，靈活切換室內與戶外的連結。透過弧形牆的引導，室外的灌木叢林成了私人花園 ，內側則延伸為露台，甚至有道階梯通往上層的屋頂露台，盡覽環繞美景。
Here, residents remain constantly aware of the close exchange between building and environment, almost as if the house itself were alive. By day, it opens outward to frame views of a mountain and a volcano. By night, the center of domestic life returns to the inward-looking circular courtyard, where the atmosphere becomes intimate and warm. To balance privacy and openness, rectangular volumes are inserted within the circular plan of the main house, accommodating the bedrooms, bathrooms, closets, and kitchen on the ground floor. Large fold-away windows, framed views, and privacy screens are woven through the scheme, allowing residents to adjust degrees of enclosure and openness according to the moment and to move fluidly between interior and exterior. Guided by curved walls, the surrounding shrubland becomes a private garden, while the inner edge extends into terraces. A stair leads to the roof terrace above, where the wider landscape comes fully into view.
➤ Photo by Camila Cossio
➤ Photo by Camila Cossio
➤ Photo by Rafael Gamo
➤ Photo by Rafael Gamo
這座住宅與大地繫起的緊密連結，不單體現於建築的型態和動線上，連建材的選擇也貫徹了量體與自然景觀融合的核心思考。Fernanda Canales 特別選用在地土壤及混凝土調和打造嵌入地面的主宅，使室內外皆散發自然的原始紋理，隨季節更迭展現細微變化，既使面對當地極端氣候，也可作為抵禦豔陽和風雨的屏障，更兼顧其維護便利性和經濟效益。在居所內，所有元素都在與在地環境和諧交流，各空間朝兩至三個方向開口形成流動的自然風、整合了太陽能與雨水回收系統的循環資源，甚至連各個區域內擺放的家具和燈具也源自這片土地的工藝。建築，從來不是單獨的存在，而是與不同元素之間相互依存的關係，形成一個會呼吸的生命體。
The house’s close bond with the ground is expressed not only in its form and circulation, but also in its material choices, which carry through the ambition of merging the built volume with the natural landscape. For the main house, set into the terrain, Canales chose local soil mixed with concrete, giving both interior and exterior surfaces a raw, natural texture that shifts subtly with the seasons. Even in the face of the region’s extreme climate, the material provides protection from harsh sun, wind, and rain while remaining practical to maintain and economical over time. Throughout the residence, every element remains in dialogue with the site: openings on two or three sides create natural cross-ventilation; solar power and rainwater harvesting establish a cyclical resource system; and even the furniture and lighting placed throughout the house are rooted in local craft traditions. Architecture here is never a standalone object, but a living structure shaped through interdependence with the many elements around it.
➤ Photo by Rafael Gamo
➤ Photo by Rafael Gamo
