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LL House

Location
Yellow Springs, Ohio

Date 2006

Description
This is the design for a new 3,500sf house in the town of Yellow Springs, Ohio. A small house currently sits on the site with a footprint of about 700sf.  This building will be emptied of all interior structure and program to become an outdoor open area spatially engaged and serviceable to the new building.  A large square aperture will be created in the roof of the existing domicile to absorb and structure the movement of light within the perceived “interior” of the new home.

The house is organized around three programmatic zones: 1. a central multi-purpose area, 2. an elevated sleeping, bathing and dressing zone, and 3. a lower-level pair of guest rooms and bath. The form of the house is intended to frame and challenge the long-standing model of the typical single-family home through visual transparency and alternative rearrangements of conventional material and territorial codes.  The house questions how materiality may play into the structuring of views through the re-coding of ordinary commercial and industrial materials in a domestic context, and how the seeing of one perceptual realm through and across another may serve to confound the conventional means by which domesticity is produced by architecture.