The opportunity for seriality and iteration through multiplicity requires the production of a series of commonalities. Rooted in site [as both a physical and cultural context] and the fundamental relationships of light, view and space, these three villas emerge as a family.

The Cellular House is focused on the central subtractive core, the void creates a central courtyard. The interstitial elements are connected by the peripheral glass gallery that objectifies the inner privatized realm. The lake itself establishes the lowest level allowing a subdivided and owned moment within the collectively share whole. The external walls protect privacy by transposing direct views to the lateral vista of moments that break the surface plane. The program is aerosolized and then collectively aggregated around the open courtyard. The gapping between each of the individually articulated spaces allows for intense indoor outdoor operability and spatial layering that creates complexity of both internal and external views and funneled light.

The Light Funnel House illuminates strategically the interior spaces through orchestrated placement of a series of bundled top lit light funnels. These figures synchronously function as volumetric organizers, spatially subdividing the house and generating experiential spaces, governed by natural light and activated by their tracking of the sun’s movement during a course of a day and through the changing seasons. The skin reveals the spatial bundles as they are clipped by the perimeter envelope.

The Umbrella House envelopes the house with a canopy, a super-structural folding move that shields the interior from exterior elements [resolving climatic concerns and providing privacy on the dense lots] while simultaneously changing the morphology and detailing possible on the suspended pavilions below. Sectionally laminating interior and exterior spaces, they are collectively protected by the primary move of the roof. Views and light are mediated by surgical removals within the folding perimeter.