The name coined from a famous animated film, the Hakuna Matata is a place of no worries.

 

The form is envisioned as concrete with details of wood, glass and indigenous material.

With careful execution not to go beyond to the realm of ultra-modernism, the goal being modern yet maintaining the essence of being local, Filipino.

Design being outside of common thinking, details are thought through as the elements are a reality to be reckoned with.

Basic but more practical design converts the local home into a modern version of its ancestors.

The inspiration: Fale, the Ifugao house. Standing on stilts and top-heavy, it is converted into a concrete fortress.

 

The form takes on the shape of the oversized roof. The base is the grand room, the stilts made wider to anchor the structure on two sides. 

Wide front and rear doors extend the ground floor to the lawn, a through-and-through courtyard of sand and stone. A koi pond on the entrance flows from a waterfall on the mural, welcoming with sandy steps over water. 

The indoor half of the pond is the focal point in the main space, with a tempered glass floor under a hammock chair that suspends from the ceiling.

The second level has a beachy feel, with the closet mimicking waves and a surfboard for a vanity. A jute rug feels like sand in toes, the space continuing to an open porch, lined only by randomly-placed round sculptures, energy flowing without boundaries.

Exterior stairs to the meditation deck are pierced through the wall, continuing indoors to the second floor. 

Outside the steps wrap around the house to the third level, where at a landing is an oasis, an escape to reconnect with nature.