Annually, students collaborate with a local housing agency to design and construct a single-family home through the Vlock Building Project. In addition to taking part in a full range of construction tasks at 118 Greenwood Street, my work focused on technical detailing of the building envelope, as well as design and fabrication of exterior elements and site. A visually porous envelope was a key part of making the compact, 1500 SF house feel gracious and spatially continuous with its exterior spaces, particularly those defined by decks. These decks were designed and detailed as floating continuations of the interior, spilling down to meet the ground as waterfall steps, and delineated by cable railings that carry through the shadow lines of the house’s shiplap siding.
Critic Adam Hopfner | Spring, Summer 2013
Collaboration with Raven Hardison, John Keeley
Photo credits: Neil Alexander
