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Oregon House
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WASHINGTON HOUSE:OR HOW TO COMPLETELY OPEN A DWELLING TO THE EXTERIOR WHILE STILL MAINTAINING PRIVACYThe lot stands on a sharply sloped hill facing a spectacular southern view of the Atlantic Ocean on the Oregon coast. The site is bordered on the north and south by two streets which run through its lowest and highest points. Neighboring buildings lie erratically west and east of the lateral boundaries.The structure is designed to fulfill the following conditions:It settles closely against the sharp slope by means of cubic volumes placed exactly along the lot boundaries. While entirely open to the southern views, the east, west and northern façades are hermetically closed to the outside except for small openings instilling individual character and specific emphasis. In contrast, the front or southern façade features a transparent enclosure accommodating the most important areas of the house.The ground floor, located off Chinook Avenue, contains most of the ground-related functions: a two-car garage, a machinery room, a wine cellar, a guest house and the main walking entranceway. The stairs to the interior rise easily to the waiting hall where natural light flooding in from the receding upper floors contrasts with a mysterious obscurity embellished by glass wine bottles. The natural light points out the way to the upper floors.The first floor contains the living areas. The kitchen, a toilet and cleaning room are located on the north side. The living and dining areas face south, in search of the views, and surround a large terrace or front yard. This space is the main reference in the relationship between interior and exterior: dwellers should feel as if they are outside while simultaneously enjoying the privacy coming from maintaining the interior away from the road. The design of the terrace creates a complementary space to the already large interior floor. The house embraces the terrace which, in turn, protects it from winds and external view. An extended wooden arm reaches out toward the ocean creating an open porch with the best views. A spiral stairway connects the terrace and porch with the wine cellar. This design is reminiscent of the wine cellars dug into steep hills in Spain. You enter the cellar as if you were going into the hill itself but, in this case, the hill has been reinvented.The second floor contains three bedrooms and a workshop along with a garage at the north entrance off Maxwell Mountain Road. There is an enclosed backyard with well-manicured high vegetation providing light to interior areas, ventilation to the main hallway and stairway and a prolonged interior-exterior sensation. The hallway leads to the bedrooms first and then the workshop and bathroom.The third floor consists of another master bedroom. It is in itself a small country house placed on top of the reinvented slope.The building materials are simple as follows:The external walls along the property lines are buried but visible at the lower levels. They are made of concrete. On top of the concrete walls the wood structures the rest of the building. These light weight façades are made of wood panels that are variously organized depending on what level they are located at; the second floor façades are built of panels separated irregularly to give a feeling of strength similar to the concrete they are touching, whereas the upper floor wood panels are assembled together to form a soft and pure volume crowning the building.
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