running up through the section. A significant
decision was to put the main living space on
the ground level, right off the forest floor. This
is counterintuitive given the wildlife and insects
that wander through jungles, but it seemed
important in order to enable occupants to really
experience their surroundings. The bedrooms
are assigned to the upper levels, where there
are also platforms and tertiary spaces that
seem to climb through the structure, like a
jungle-gym (pardon the pun). Because virtually
every perimeter surface is either glass or open,
the building seems to literally blend into the
greenery, reaching into the branches – or
letting them reach in. The central void ensures
that the unity of the house remains, however,
and the cross, upward and downward aspects
are all rather captivating.The grey-toned steelwork is a central player
in the formal drama of Jungle Frame House...
The ‘frame’ of its name is indeed important.
Contrasting with the occasional whitened walls
that beams or posts outline, and filled in other
segments with teak wood slats, louvres or
flooring, the steel looks awfully sharp. It allows
the building a slenderness of components that
alludes to the trunks and branches of the trees
all around. The main, lower living-level truly
mitigates between ground and building, feeling
as much like a flattened, tidied-up clearing of
the jungle as the man-made base of the house
climbing above it. Sitting on the living area sofahinge 275_30