Pené House is a personal habitat for an occupant who wants to live off-grid. It facilitates the basic requirements for off-grid living including heating/cooling. Water management, etc. Since Pené House is embedded in nature, its design is inspired by biomimicry.
Project Type: Academic: OCAD University | Course: ENVR - 2003 ED: Personal Space | Professor: Bruce Hinds | Fall 2019 | Individual
Conceptual Sketch | Understanding Relationship to Site
Preliminary Conceptual Sketches | Exploring Forms
Pené House is nestled at the northeastern edge of the Scarborough Bluffer’s Park neighboring Lake Ontario. Its design was inspired by the natural behaviour of foam water, known as ‘pené’ in the Sinhalese language. Like the foam that wraps around a rock, the design imitates the fluidity imitates the fluidity of the fractal patterns in foam water as it folds over natural rock formations.
Exterior Rendering: Southwest Edge | Software: Rhino 6, Twinmotion, Photoshop
These abstract models explore Pené House’s distinctive architectural form. It demonstrates several key ideas that informed the final design: the angular protrusion which cantilevers outward; the quality of being anchored at its base; the puncturing of the façade to enable strong wings to pass through the design.
