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Unit 12a is an ongoing research-based architectural “unit”, dedicated to exploring spatial experience, materiality, and representation. The practice engages in projects across multiple scales and disciplines, driven by a process of curation and investigation.

This platform builds upon the act of tracing and reinterpreting architecture, presenting a carefully selected collection of images that offer insight into the origins of our work and the future directions of the practice. We honor the weight of a brick, the story in a tile, and the grain of wood—materials that are invested with memory, craft, and time, shaping places with quiet insistence and enduring presence.
House 905 House 905 by Harquitectes offers a sophisticated residential design which presents complex relationships between public and private areas as well as indoors and outdoors. The house is comprised of several concentric layers, consisting of a central living core which expands into an exposed veranda that opens into the surrounding enclosed garden, separating the site from the streetscape. As these masses expand in scale, they become less private in program. This organisation of public and private areas pulls the programs to the centre of the building, proving to be an antithesis of typical residential architecture. The circulation routes of the house are rather flexible, with the veranda living space also functioning as a walkway. The South corridor, in particular, being the narrowest, seems to act as a major connecting channel which would likely receive the most foot traffic.
The architects have posed a rather fluid interior and exterior relationship for House 905. There are sliding panels which act as a device to distinguish the inside and outside of the building, with fixed corners that define the house and allow for more private interior moments. A clear inside is the enclosed central living space, however the surrounding veranda, being so interchangeable, is almost an ambiguous intermediate space between this and the outside.