Stephanie Tabb
ARCH + TECH
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
The largest move of the house is one of detachment; the two main programmatic pieces pull apart and shift away from one another. The void functions as a transitional space between the varying levels of programmatic privacy. These disparate pieces are joined with a woven roof top garden whose access stairs touch down between them. In this way, the structures are both separate and connected, much like the immigrants who are forced from their homelands, but never truly from their identities.
BUILDING SYSTEMS
The flexible and foldable systems housed in the community room lend themselves to a variety of programmatic configurations and possibilities. The space can be transformed from a living room to a school house to a bedroom. The concept of the ritual manifests itself in the woven circulation procession found between the structures and also within the bath house. The user of this structure moves from the sink to the shower to the communal outdoor bathtub in a ceremonial fashion and through the process becomes embedded within the surrounding landscape.
ground level
roof level
