{"id":5397,"date":"2016-12-30T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/olson-kundig-shadowboxx\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T07:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T11:48:41","slug":"olson-kundig-shadowboxx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/inspiration\/industry\/olson-kundig-shadowboxx\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Escape: Olson Kundig’s Transforming Beachfront House Is Truly Spectacular"},"content":{"rendered":"

What if you could lift up your roof as easily as you can open a door? Olson Kundig Architects<\/a> principal Tom Kundig took the idea of indoor-outdoor living to its logical (and mechanical) extreme with Shadowboxx<\/a>, a private home in the San Juan Islands, off the coast of Washington. With shifting shutters, walls and doors, Kundig’s design effectively turns the entire house into a sleeping porch. The bathhouse has a roof that opens like a hatbox.<\/p>\n

Olson Kundig later released a time-lapse video demonstrating it all \u2014 a first for the firm and for the project, which was completed in 2010. The short documents a day in the life of the house and illustrates its many possible configurations against a backdrop of moving mist and gloriously varied light conditions.<\/p>\n