This was a student project by Ashley Middelberg for Kay Bea Jones's ARCH 642 course, Winter 2006. To address the idea of existenzminimum and the call for a primal domestic enclosure using a minimal area, the Box House is designed as a portable dwelling composed of a core of essential rooms for living. Once the house has been deposited onto an appropriate foundation created on site, an exterior floor and ceiling can be unfolded from the box to create additional open living space. Once the exterior floor and ceiling are unfolded, glass and/or solid walls can be pulled out to enclose the space for interior living area. The house is also accompanied with foldable furniture to be stored in the core during delivery and then able to be unfolded and pulled out into the additional space formed by the unfolded walls. The Box House accommodates space for eating, sleeping, bathing, relaxing, and storage within the core, with the intent that these spaces can then be extended into the additional enclosed space if desired. ---- Ashley Middelberg 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. This effort was sponsored in part by the Graham Foundation.
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Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives Collection
