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Briefcase House
Briefcase House
1932, South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL, United States
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Briefcase House
1932, South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL, United States
Located inside a warehouse loft of 1400 sf with
no partition, this project is a house within a house. The design
engages two architectural issues: inside/outside and S/XL. It compacts
the material possessions of the subject into one oversized briefcase -
so large that the subject sleeps inside of it. The residual gap outside
of the Briefcase House to the limits of the warehouse loft can be
considered a super wall-cavity and rendered as blackened thick wall in
an architectural plan. Converseley, when the subject occupies the
wall-cavity for other activities, the house can be considered a solid
obstruction. This project delineates the qualification of conceptual
poche by the swerve of the figure and ground and the of blackening the
thick-wall or the private volume. Furthermore, it blurs the boundary
between the definition of XL furniture and S building.
The project pays homage to Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House and
the paintings of Lucio Fontana and Robert Motherwell. The core of the
Farnsworth House is key in producing the four architectural programs
without erecting one single wall. Like the core of the Farnsworth
House, the presence of the Briefcase House inside this warehouse carves
out distinct dimensions for appropriate activities. Sitting on
castors, the house can be rolled around to distort program proportions.
The paintings of Fontana and Motherwell heighten the awareness of
negative spaces. As an obstruction, the Briefcase House is a permanent
cut on the canvas that gives birth to a new healthy body. .
no partition, this project is a house within a house. The design
engages two architectural issues: inside/outside and S/XL. It compacts
the material possessions of the subject into one oversized briefcase -
so large that the subject sleeps inside of it. The residual gap outside
of the Briefcase House to the limits of the warehouse loft can be
considered a super wall-cavity and rendered as blackened thick wall in
an architectural plan. Converseley, when the subject occupies the
wall-cavity for other activities, the house can be considered a solid
obstruction. This project delineates the qualification of conceptual
poche by the swerve of the figure and ground and the of blackening the
thick-wall or the private volume. Furthermore, it blurs the boundary
between the definition of XL furniture and S building.
The project pays homage to Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House and
the paintings of Lucio Fontana and Robert Motherwell. The core of the
Farnsworth House is key in producing the four architectural programs
without erecting one single wall. Like the core of the Farnsworth
House, the presence of the Briefcase House inside this warehouse carves
out distinct dimensions for appropriate activities. Sitting on
castors, the house can be rolled around to distort program proportions.
The paintings of Fontana and Motherwell heighten the awareness of
negative spaces. As an obstruction, the Briefcase House is a permanent
cut on the canvas that gives birth to a new healthy body. .
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