Moving Rooms: Elevators as the Core of a Residence

Design a hillside house in the manner of Rem Koolhaas's Maison à Bordeaux — three stacked levels where a three-by-three-metre hydraulic platform carrying the study moves up and down through the whole house, becoming a different room at each floor, because the client uses a wheelchair. Compose a heavy dark concrete box floating above a fully glazed middle level, the upper volume punched with circular porthole windows of varying size, a visible steel beam and counterweight above the roof, the moving platform stopped mid-height, a valley and city below, cool overcast light, low three-quarter view, 24mm lens, architectural photography, ultra photorealistic, 8K