The Ruskin House:  Index

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The Ruskin House  Design Pages:

The Ruskin House now available in paperback & hardcover at www.blurb.com, this 120 page, full color book documents the process and the finished Ruskin House:                  

Project Info:

Client:  Stanley Woodruff

Site:  Mouth of the Little Manatee River, Ruskin, FL

 

Design:  2000

Guest House Construction:  2001

Main House Construction:  2002—2007

Conditioned Space:  2050sf

Usable Space under roof/screen:  ~10,000sf

Structure:  reinforced concrete block, aerated concrete block and precast, structural steel glued-laminated cypress beams

Right:  a slideshow by renowned Tampa photographer James Reed done in 2007 for TBO.com

Mr. Reed set the images to musings about the space prompted by his questions.

Construction process:  reverse chronology