| borden partnership |
|
|
|
|
|
rubber banded house |
|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
|||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Surface, through its formal and material investigation, defines the premise of the rubber-banded house. Set in a suburban single-family house neighborhood inside the beltline of Raleigh, North Carolina, the rubber-banded house depends upon a mutable wall surface to simultaneously define the form and function of the residence’s public space. The character of the architecture and the formal response of its spaces are governed and inspired by the flexible scrim. The surface creates enclosure and place. The form of a house defines two modes of the domestic realm: public and private. The activities within each realm orchestrate and activate the formal enclosure. The private occurs in the opaque vertical loop that allows the penetration of light and view while revealing the intimate actions of interior to exterior. The public is a transparent glass layer enclosing a public horizontal loop. Three woven rubber-band walls operate, flexing space, transparency and light within this living corridor. Their activity governs space by orchestrating event and composing form. The diagram of the house in founded on three interior walls fabricated out of a movable matrix of delicate steel cable supports fixed in movable glides and then woven together with an elastic membrane of common rubber bands.
|