This house by AZL Architects, is located in Nanjing, China and looks like it’s been through quite a bit. The house it looks like someone took a shotgun and started shooting the sides of it. But the seeming scatter spray of shotgun pellets gives the surface a texture that breaks up the overwhelming whiteness. Then there’s the paneling that wraps the buildings surface, which reminds an old paper, curling and distorting, or of a wall that’s begun to disintegrate. Some this might sound like a negative critique, but the way that AZL has executed this concept is stunning. It feels like a mindful deconstruction of a space, taking apart the very idea of what a traditional wall is. We doubt that a building like this would be the right fit for most homeowners, but this is what innovation looks like.
