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1999--The T-House unbuilt

The concept for this structure grows from a large open site on a corner lot with a large south right-of-way and views to a large lawn to the east with Live oaks along the southern edge.

A plan oriented to the east with private spaces perched at a second level overlooking the SW corner under the live oak canopies.

The concept develops as an outer volume sheltering a smaller linear volume that slips beyond its borderrs creating spaces above and between the volumes. The entry develops at the NW corner leaving the live-oak lined southern edge clean. The covered motor court grows from the ground as a series of piers that inform the shell/structure of the main living spaces. The "shell" system again defines a sort of diagrammatic spatial reference and a glazing system fills in between the shell and defined the line between conditioned and non-conditioned space.

The outdoor spaces orient to the SE where the Florida sunshine and summer breezes can be brought into the living spaces.

Right: plan development overlays (pencil on trace)

Note the relationship that develops between the massing of the solids in the plan sketches and the realization of the massing in the perspective sketch. The mass/void defined in plan are defining and being realized as 3 dimensional, sculptural volumes, not just a linear wall extruded to 8' or whatever the "exterior" wall height is, and then punch some holes in it for "doors" and "windows". This is a 3 dimensional sculptural composition being developed.

Right: Roof plan development sketch (pencil on trace)

Below: detail development of the interaction of inside and outside spaces and elevation changes of the exterior spaces.

Right: plan development overlays (pencil on trace)

Below: Detail development sketch of a living space and its relation to the exterior spaces.

Right: bedroom/bath/storage development overlay studies (pencil on trace)

Note the relationship that develops between the massing of the solids in the plan sketches and the realization of the massing in the elevation sketch. Again, the sketches are defining a compositional arrangement of volumes hopefully in a sculptural way so as to create a space with an essence that can be felt by its occupants.