This is a student project by Drew Grandjean for ARCH 242 in Winter 2011. A home for two clients (a librarian and an enthusiastic metallurgist), Wrapping House includes a library and a study (or lab). It sits on the roof of an existing urban apartment building. The design illustrates how space can be enclosed by a single folding surface. Beginning with a template, cuts and folds are made which become walls, floors and ceilings. There are few walls that are not a part of the shape of the original template. Using three folded templates to make a combination, the house takes advantage of the gaps and overlaps among these surfaces (and the openings they create) to make combined spaces and shared conditions. Where the templates meet, circulation is focused. Each 'block condition' (the folded surface template) is a rotated iteration of the original. The resulting conditions are rooms that may be recognized across different areas in the house, though oriented differently in space. This work is a part of the online collections of the Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives, The Ohio State University. It is part of an effort to make accessible student work ranging from the first student that graduated from the program in 1903 to the present.
