The resurgence of typology in architecture has often been limited by a restrained, minimalist, and sober adaptation of given types. This conceptual project aimed to discover possibilities for playfulness, audacity, and excess within the structural and formal logic of an ordinary hipped-roof house typology.
Location: Cambridge, MA
Project type: speculative / conceptual
The simple but extreme extrusion of a hipped roof creates a monumental plane, the geometry of which is inflected back into the form and wood-frame structure of the house along lines perpendicular to the extruded line of the roof.
The formal manipulation of the house’s extruded roof creates a hybrid between the typologies of a modernist box and a traditional pitched roof.
The continuous open space that results from this collision is inflected over a steep incline that creates novel spatial patterns of domestic privacy by controlling a visitor’s line of sight.
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