Takeshi Masuyama, Chris Eskew, Gabriel Huerta, Alina Grobe
This house is primarily organized by cellular tectonics and structural performance rather than program or function in the modern sense. Walls become obsolete in their function of both dividing space and resolving loads in favor of a vivid, multidirectional system of forces and behaviors.
Floor plates, structural frame, and building envelope are not understood as independent systems, but rather as emergent behaviors resulting from variation and adaptation in a three dimensional cellular pattern. This pattern grows, spreads out, evolving toward local performance based on local conditions without breaking its genetic logic.
The glass shell is characterized by micro-cells which exhibit in-plane membrane behavior while compression members branch and thicken toward the interior of the house, resolving lateral loads in floor plate diaphragms. The hybrid of cellular geometry and branching geometry allows for maximum flexibility in adapting to load cases.
The sensibility of the space is based on the interplay of structural articulation and attenuation, where structural pathways are sometimes obfuscated. It is at these moments that dogmatic understandings of efficiency and excess are questioned.
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