Location
Timeframe
Client
Program
Status

Coloma, Michigan
2019-Current
Private
Single Family Residential
Hold

This proposal for a live/work residence in an unincorporated and isolated parcel of land asks the question: can a house for a single occupant with dogmatically prescribed rituals and routines, be conceived of as a linear sequence of spaces that frame views to the landscape and minimally connect to eachother through a single cooridor? In an attempt to work through that question through the typology of a single family(/individual) residence, the design was driven through a series of experiments in cutting/editing/recomposing animation sequences. The metrics of each space are tightly linked to a heavily modulated sequence of solid walls bracing between one heavy, continuous wet-wall on one side, and one uninterrupted, operable curtain-wall on the other. Tectonically, the house will be built on stilts that suspend the concrete slabs just above the terrain to allow for existing topogrophies, drainage patterns, and vegetation to exist undisturbed. Relying less on a final design language, and more of thinking through a DNA that could be expanded, contracted, or otherwise deployed in any number of organizations and orientations, the preliminary feasibility study currently exists as an experiment until a final program is established. At its best, each space of the house is granted unobstructed views to a landscape it minimally wants to impact.