Project Description

How does architecture both construct domesticity and negotiate the zone between our interior home lives and those of the outside world? This project focuses on the notion of what is private and public space; within the dual relationship of having a domestic environment within which also rests as a work space. It is important to recognize that the dwelling of a home environment consists of certain rituals that mediates the relationships to the outside world and ways in which architecture can start to invite our work environment into daily habits of people. Specifically what would the house of an art gallerist in Ithaca, NY start to represent? As an architectural concept it defines a commitment to a precise way of making and thinking that eschews the arbitrary, the prejudiced, the stereotypical, the redundant, the wasteful, the extraneous, the quick. In other words it asks of us to think carefully what kind of trace we as architects leave in the world, to question our assumptions of what is necessary, and it argues for an architecture of accessibility, of sited-ness, and of care.