This was a student project by Brooklyn Short for Aurel von Richthofen's ARCH 242 course, Winter 2009. The client of the house was an artist. The main focus of the project was to provide the artist with infinite amounts of landscape views for artistic inspiration. The façade is split into windows that vary in sizes. The etching design on the windows creates different types of shadows and lighting effects on the interior, and also breaks up the view to the exterior landscape. The windows pivot at their center so that they may be opened to let complete natural light in or closed to let obscured light in. When the windows are opened at different orientations, the facade appears as a wave and the etching on the windows becomes a variation to the exterior walls and landscape. The programs of the house includes a garage and storage area on the very bottom floor, a kitchen and living area on the first floor, a bedroom, bath, and studio/library on the second floor, and a roof garden on the third floor. The house sits into the landscape and gaze over the Hocking Hills Lake. - Brooklyn Short
