The project designed by Steven Holl Architects is located in a rural forest landscape, as a non-profit extension of the locally based "T"Space art gallery, the 918 square-foot artists' residence aims to preserve 28 acres of landscape and wild-animal habitats that were originally intended to be subdivided into five suburban house plots. The house is a physical manifestation of the Steven Holl architects' ongoing research project "Explorations of 'IN'". Established in June 2014, the research project explores and challenges the clichés of architectural language and commercial practice, including drawings and studies entitled with colorful names like Triple Venn Diagram Mutilation and Hybrid Combinations: Tesseract within a Cubic Sphere.
The Ex of In House is described by the design team — Steven Holl, Dimitra Tsachrelia, Marcus Carter, Ruoyu Wei, and Yuliya Savelyeva — as an "exploration of a language of space, [an] aim at inner spatial energy, [and] shaping public space and social openness". The house is a single, compressed form that is intersected by three spherical voids. Its interior is designed as one large room on three levels, equipped with a centrally located kitchen. The solar-powered house uses fossil fuel for heating and will be cooled geothermally.
CREDITS. DATA SHEET.
Architect.- Steven Holl.
Collaborators.- Dimitra Tsachrelia, Marcus Carter.
Project Team.- Ruoyu Wei, Yuliya Savelyeva.
Structural Engineer.- Robert Silman Associates.
Geothermal Engineer.- Matthias Schuler.
Area.- 918.0 ft².
Completion year.- 2016.