The “infinite” quality of the house lies in the use of persistent fluid details and how materials bend and fold in endless iterations that make the Infinity House feel almost like a flowing, breathing organism. | via nolisoliph
The bustling urban city of Metro Manila is the last place where you would expect a well-designed and expansive home. Architectural history tells us that the best residential structures are hidden off in some tree-lined forest, a far-flung province—picture Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater house in rural Pennsylvania.
My dad likes the corner sofa setting because the African Talisay trees become canopies and he tends to take naps there,” the 38-year old architect says. Given these, one might ask, “how would someone who effectively designs other people’s dream houses, take on his own?” We asked architect Carlo Calma this and more on the eve of the announcement of a new recognition: being nominated for the World Architecture Festival—the Oscars of architecture—in its Future Projects – House category for his Infinity House.Congratulations on the nomination.
I feel honored and it’s nice to see that our architectural designs here in the Philippines are recognized in the global stage. It is selected by around 175 judges around the world and I see some of my teachers in the UK are judges and it is kind of nice after a decade of architectural practice in the Philippines our mentors before have become our peers now.It’s actually my parents’ home.
You’ve done a lot of residential and commercial work that are of many different forms and shapes. Would you say this house is wholly representative of your design philosophy and aesthetic?
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