This project explores various spatial and organizational strategies through the use of horizontal banding in order to address issues of scale, adaptability, programmatic distribution, and privacy. The two units are visually separated by an entrance court but are unified under a vernacularly sensitive gable roof. Longitudinally, this gable roof compresses the user’s experience toward the southeast side of the site and slowly rises to the southwest as the user walks toward the entrance, demarcating an outdoor circulation path that is different from the public street at the front of the house.

Our team’s design won the 2017 Jim Vlock competition, and was built in the summer of 2017 by YSOA class of 2019.

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