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Living The Noom Housing by sanzpont [arquitectura]

Living The Noom Housing

Platinum A' Design Award Winner 2021

sanzpont [arquitectura]'s Living The Noom Housing represents a profound meditation on the relationship between human habitation and natural environment, emerging from contemporary discourse surrounding biophilic design principles and sustainable architectural practice. The project suggests an ambitious reimagining of residential typology wherein buildings cease to function as barriers against nature and instead become permeable vessels that invite, nurture, and celebrate botanical life as integral to dwelling experience. The curvilinear formal language appears to reference organic growth patterns found in plant structures, shells, and geological formations, departing decisively from orthogonal conventions to propose architecture that breathes, flows, and responds to its tropical context. Technical accomplishment manifests in the sophisticated integration of passive environmental strategies with active solar technologies, the timber louver systems suggesting traditional ventilation wisdom updated through contemporary parametric design capabilities. The vertical green walls cascading down building facades represent not mere decoration but functional ecosystems that moderate temperature, filter air, and provide habitat, transforming architecture into living infrastructure. One observes careful attention to the choreography of human experience through rooftop terraces that offer intimate garden rooms elevated within the forest canopy, creating opportunities for contemplation and social gathering amid abundant vegetation. The central pool functions as both recreational amenity and compositional anchor, its organic form echoing the buildings while its reflective surface amplifies natural light throughout the complex. This work invites consideration of how architecture might evolve to address environmental imperatives while enriching daily experience, suggesting that sustainable design need not compromise sensory delight but might indeed enhance it through deeper connection to natural systems and seasonal rhythms.

The project is based on 3 main axes; Wellness Living, Sustainability and Flexible Living. It aims to propose a new housing concept for the real estate market. A housing concept that offers wellness and sustainable features that benefit health and the environment, with a low density and low land occupancy percentage while maintaining a competitive and affordable price. It also offers Flexible Living because it is designed as an open-plan building that can be configured in multiple options and satisfy different needs.