The Butterfly Boutique hotel is a project in Siem Reap inspired by the stacking of stones in traditional Khmer religious architecture. It also it takes clues from the modern container architecture, where individual pieces are stacked in different ordering systems to create the space.
In this case, we’ve taken the basic module of one room and creatively arranged them to evoke the romantic stacked stones  slightly shifting over time at the temples of Angkor.
The corridors and the passageways are created by the negative space left over by these boxes. Moving among the shifting rocks, there is a different relationship to  views. proximity to open space and proximities to buildings. One is led to meander through the project as if  meandering through a series of found archeological site in the middle of Angkor.
The effect is not  about the efficiency of moving from place to place, but about the journey. By taking a metaphor  from the great local attraction, the temples of Angkor, we have sited the project and made it contextual. And yet it looks nothing like temple architecture. We’re not copying space; we’re metaphorically transforming space.