Ashuda Guest House

The roof is the connection between the building and the sky.

The roof is the connection between the building and the sky, The roof is an important shelter for the space, and a central element of the building. It is shaped by two natural elements: gravity and rain. Gravity is a constant law of everything, and rain is a natural thing that changes from moment to moment. The resistance with gravity and the detachment with rainwater determine the formal evolution of the roof.

Ashuda Guest House is located in the middle of a hill away from the city, surrounded by bamboo forests and farmland. Several separated village houses are covered by a large roof. The roofs are held up by columns, allowing rainwater to be directed to the ground in a variety of ways and paths, creating a kind of counterpoint between the invisible and the tangible.

The sloping roof will channel the rainwater into the gutters, and the gutters in multiple directions will then channel the rainwater into different openings so that the rainwater falls into the collectors on the ground. Or, stainless-steel chains that hung at the gutters can channel rainwater into the rain garden. In through the rainwater deposition belt quickly into the ground, not causing waterlogging.

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