The house also adopts a passive design strategy through its elongated placement of the massing of the second floor on the west side of the house so it gives shade to the rest of the house in the afternoon. The west side has a quite solid facade, only allowing light and air into the house through the wooden screen positioned in the west courtyard and the stairs. On the east side, the facade is completely covered with a wooden screen acting as a double skin that gently filters the morning sun, which creates an array of sunrays and shadows into the corridor. The operable wooden screens open up to rows of circular roof gardens and halos, arranged alternatingly between greeneries and voids.
