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| Found as a leftover lot, reassembled by a builder and to be developed as a pre-sale single-family house, we intervened to insert architecture. Designed for $98 a square foot including land, the house was an essay in the predetermined attitudes of the building industry exploited for design. Two doors down from a Harwell Hamilton Harris designed church; the lot was undeveloped due to a stream and surrounding riparian buffer. When recombined with adjoining fragments, the lot became one of four eligible for construction. Set deep off the road, the entry occurs from the south, bridging an existing creek and running through a one hundred foot buffer pine grove of trees to arrive at the residence. Designed to serve as both house and studio, the residence is two pieces: an elevated tube for working and a wrapping tube for living. The length of the site established long views to the front and back of the property, with limited lateral expanses. Heavily wood from being undeveloped, the house sits as gently into the landscape as possible, neither disturbing the local topography nor the plantings. The yard is regulated to a small formal lawn along the studio and an ornamental courtyard formed by the wrapping living tube.
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