Near the temple complex at Angkor Wat on the Siem Reap River, this proposed house and public space acknowledges the “natural” state of the river by straddling its edge and allowing it to flow over the plinth of the house. The river meets/floods over a perimeter landscape wall during the rainy season, while providing a series of holding ponds that stabilize the soil. The towers invert the hive-shaped forms of Angkor Wat, allowing the public into these spaces where the blocks are treated more as cladding, corbelling outward to the sky.
