Dwelling the Flowing Slope

The proposal draws on the site’s vernacular architectural language and landscape setting, translating the local duality of linear street-edge housing and dispersed pitched-roof hillside settlements into a contemporary framework. Rather than replicating historical forms, the design establishes a dialogue between civic and intimate spaces, linear order and porous landscape, while reinforcing a clear sense of community structure.

The masterplan is organized through a clear development gradient, with the highest density and most public programs along the urban road, gradually decreasing toward the hilltop and forest interior. This strategy responds to sunlight, views, and privacy while defining a sequence from public to private space. Two housing typologies support this logic: bar-shaped blocks activate the street edge and provide terraced communal spaces, while smaller point-block clusters are embedded higher on the slope, creating more private communities closely tied to the landscape.

A consistent material and infrastructural strategy unifies the scheme. Masonry plinths anchor the buildings to the ground, timber superstructures lighten the volumes and age naturally, and steel is used selectively in circulation elements requiring slenderness and durability. Rainwater is treated as both a resource and a spatial generator through visible harvesting and drainage landscapes, while a continuous slow-mobility network of promenades, ramps, boardwalks, and paths connects the site, linking public commons, residential clusters, and private gardens into a coherent and resilient neighborhood framework.