American designer Marc Thorpe has unveiled a concept for a concrete house with vaulted archways and tree-filled gardens for a riverbank in Georgia.
Named House of Four Gardens, the work is a set of 3D renderings created in collaboration with architectural visualisation studio Truetopia.
House of Four Gardens is a virtual concept
Thorpe imagines the project suiting the waterways on the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia.
"Currently, the project remains as a concept, or more as an expression of values and beliefs,"  Thorpe told Dezeen. "I was most interested in the philosophical relationship between man and nature."
The renderings imagine the property on a grassy riverbank
Thorpe explored this theme by conceptualising a grid of thirty 144-square-foot (14-square-metre) concrete groin-vaults arranged around an inner courtyard. Four small grassy gardens would be placed at intervals on the grid, surrounded by river water, oaks and perennial ferns native to the region.
Four gardens define the concept house
The house's namesake, its four gardens, would act as bridges between outside and inside spaces. Each garden would have its own tree casting shadows against the curved concrete.

Inside, House of Four Gardens would have areas for living, dining and sleeping. The bungalow's interior spaces are defined by the geometry of their corridors.
A bathroom looks towards nature
Only transparent glazing would separate these rooms from their jungle-like surroundings, enha...