Wrapping House

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Wrapping House

Firm

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2006

Situated in the northeastern sector of Heyri Art Valley, this small house
defines the corner of the street. Diagonally placed within the site, there is a
scale shift from the entrance door to the main window, which is built using perspectival
lines in order to enlarge the perception of the space.

The house is wrapped with iroko wooden bars which emerge from the ground,
follow the corner of the street and end at the roof. The vertical wooden bars
act as both interior and exterior walls, and begin diagonally from the street. The
wooden ‘wrapper’ rotates around the structure and becomes part of the façade,
morphing from an extrusion of the landscape into vertical line as it approaches
the large picture-frame window on the second floor. This continuous wrapping
skin boundary shapes the form of the house blurring inside and outside,
architectural artifact and landscape topography.