It seems well thought-through with the views through the windows and the clean geometry, but I am a bit torn because of the sterility and disconnectedness.
You can always see the outside but you are never a part of it because the windows can’t open (like sliding patio doors), so I imagine being a fish in a tank, somewhat akin to a glass prison.
It’s big and spacious and tall, so you can have many guests at a dinner party, and the pool lighting and what not will add to it. But that is just like a hotel / banquet hall arrangement.
I wonder what would happen if we changed it a bit – like making “green walls” of moss, cork, textured white paper on the inside, changing to more colourful natural finishings instead of gray slate (perhaps a bright primary red bathtub?), more indoor plants, more patio door sliders, more fine carpets.
Could that work? A sort of “organic modern” – still rectilinear, kind of modeled on the formal gardens of European palaces, maybe something akin to classic Japanese minimalism? Or will it inherently look like a total mutt because we are fighting that cool (cold), rational, modern form no matter how hard we try?
I am taking the purpose of the place as being me trying to live there most of the time. As opposed to being a dinner / pool party place to impress society guests. Or as a place to stash my money.
