Kristina Dryza recently chatted with Sarah Gormley, Director of Balmond Studio about masterpieces, poetic icons and her favourite public art installations.

KD: Tell us why Balmond Studio was created?

SG: Cecil Balmond’s designs transcend the architectural paradigm. They are scaleless. You look at these emergent and generative forms, products of his research, and you see buildings, monumental art sculptures, jewellery . . . We are using Balmond Studio as the vehicle for this design evolution.

The studio is the epicentre for a variety of ground-breaking projects including a new kind of modular housing, a $400m mixed use scheme in Asia, public art works and ‘Artefacts,’ a series of handcrafted pieces. We se

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Some houses catch our eye with their unique form, some offer smart ecological solutions and some are simply pretty. This small house, with its simple, rectangular shape, clings from a mountainside, offering breathtaking views of the Monserrat mountains near Barcelona, Spain. Its location and the way it is positioned make it interesting and appealing.

The house is supported by concrete struts, giving it the impression of floating above the mountain. Its quite compact with a total space of 1,380 sq. ft., and serves as a family home to a couple and their two young children.

Inside, the house is simply decorated a house made to live in.

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