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Zachary House
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Zachary House
This small house in Zachary, Louisiana was designed for a recently retired couple who wanted a modest weekend house that would make them feel connected to their local forty-four acres of land, but also to the tradition of rural architecture. The house design was also to necessarily allow construction by the owners and therefore consist of simple materials and construction techniques. Programmatically, the house was to contain a full kitchen, living/dining area, bedroom, and basic bath facilities. The solution is a 550 square foot house based on the traditional dogtrot layout. In the dogtrot two enclosed rooms are simultaneously divided and joined by an exterior breezeway that allows the cooling of these rooms. In this reinterpretation of the historic type, the public living/dining areas are separated from the more private bedroom/bath areas. Four sets of glazed doors allow the complete opening of the house for views and cross-ventilation during inclement weather. On the exterior corrugated metal is used both for the walls and roof recalling local agricultural outbuildings. The use of shutters allows the complete sealing off of the house giving it an abstract quality. Translucent fiberglass and plexiglas windows allow light into the darker areas of the house while preserving the monolithic nature of the exterior. A freestanding masonry chimney serves as the threshold into the house and provides an asymmetrical counterpoint to the otherwise bi-laterally symmetrical arrangement. Furthermore, the symbolic detaching of the hearth from the house reinforces the heat-dispersion character of the house and recalls the practical traditional of separating kitchens from the body of the house.
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