This was a student project by Levi Worthington for Benjamin Wilke's ARCH 242 course, Winter 2009. Project Statement: Throughout America architectural history, the country house has been central to the way that the American people have imagined themselves and structured their physical environment. Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Henry David Thoreau's Walden Cabin, Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House, Diller & Scofidio's Slow House - each reimagines the American Landscape and our place in it. This project continues the Winter Quarter's abstract explorations of volume, this time without established boundaries. Equally important, however, is that we recognize that content inevitably fills form, and in this case, the content is laden with history and present potentials. A Columbus Client has approached us with the commission for a small house (no more than 1200 square feet), which the client envisions as a retreat for weekends and holidays. The site is less than an hour away from Columbus in the Hocking Hills. 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. Keywords: student work, KSA.
