Building Project Studio

Critic Peter de Brettville

Spring 2013 

 

The House, conceived of as a volume like a bowl of water, utilizes the extents of its small cubage with multi functional floors, walls, stairs, shelfs, seats, & cabinets.  The proposal reimagines these defined entities as ‘cabinet-floor’, ‘seat-shelf’, or ‘stair-nook’ creating dynamic Loosian volumetric adjacencies which do more with less space.  The inhabitant can live with a volumetric freedom akin to a fish in a coral reef, floating throughout the volume.  An adaptable shingle skin wraps the volume with variable apertures & bulges to mediate the interior programmatic spaces with exterior program & environment.

 

The house is for a single family with 3 bedrooms. 1500sqft