SCG EXCELLA

Two teardrop-shaped volumes face each other, their walls built from hundreds of tiles rotating gradually in angle — one sequence opening, the other closing. The effect is a kind of breathing. Despite the weight of the material, the space feels surprisingly light, permeable, almost meditative. We thought of it as a spiritual capsule as much as a structural one — a place to pause, to be held by shadow and reflection, to let the outside world dissolve into pattern and light.

Inside, the contrast is deliberate. Polished copper-toned metal lines the interior, its warmth and reflectivity set against the cool, stone-like texture of the Excella tile. Each surface makes the other more itself. The heaviness of the material becomes the very thing that creates a sense of stillness — a reminder that shelter, at its best, is not just protection from the world, but a different way of being in it.