Simplicity imbued with a traditionalistic virtue defines this interesting design concept of a housing project proposed for Port au Prince, Haiti. St Val Architect studio have supposedly been inspired by the prevalent traditional art of making cocoon-shaped baskets, composed from weaving natural plant fibers available from the local habitat.
The residential units are designed along a vertical alignment, so that they wouldn’t have any adverse effect on the overall structural density of the area. Moreover, the locally available natural elements are used as building materials, alluding to the strictly sustainable nature of the conception, which rather can prove to be advantageous to the rebuilding effort going on in Haiti.
Also there is a tacitly spiritual attribute that can be associated with the design, as the architects explain:
It’s an architecture that segments space and which translates well the transient character of these habitats.
Image Courtesy: St Val Architect studio
Source: World Architecture News
