I designed this project as part of the Career Discovery Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The brief for this project asked for a shared dwelling for two friends: an artist, and an art collector. The house had to contain a gallery for the collector, a studio for the artist, and - on a narrow lot - a fouteen foot driveway to the parking lot behind the building. I settled on the theme of entanglement: I wanted the dwelling spaces to be inextricably intertwined so that the house would reinforce and strengthen the friendship of the inhabitants. At the same time, I needed to separate the living spaces of the friends so that each had a sense of privacy. I resolved this conflict with a house that is truly a shared dwelling. The house is a single continuous space; no doors separate the dwellings of the artist and the art collector. Nevertheless, subtle spatial and architectural cues define distinct living spaces for each inhabitant.
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The project began with an abstract composition of multi-colored boxes. I assembled this composition on the principle that each color should be visible from each side of the composition.
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We constructed a structural matrix model based on the original box composition. I started thinking about how the inhabitants would move through the house here and began developing the spatial logic of my box composition into the idea of spatial entanglement.
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Axonometric analysis of circulation paths.
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Plans of the building. Both residences form a single fluid space.
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I struggled to resolve the tension between privacy and separation and the spatial overlapping inherent in the idea of entanglement.
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The artist and art collector enter the house through separate doors, but into the same space. Once inside, they are each subtly guided into their own private space.
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On the second floor, the art collector has a partial, fragmentary view into the living space of the artist. At the same time, the artist's stairs conceal the doorway connecting the dwellings.
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Exploded axonometric drawing exploring the overlaps between the two dwelling spaces.
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I wanted the facade to express the entanglement of the living spaces inside the building.
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Site model, side view from the street.
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