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raleigh, nc winner dalsouple 100% rubber competition |
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Surface,
through its formal and material investigation, defines the premise
of the rubber-banded house. Set
in a suburban single-family house neighborhood inside the beltline
of Raleigh, North Carolina, the rubber-banded house depends upon
a mutable wall surface to simultaneously define the form and function
of the residence’s public space. The
character of the architecture and the formal response of its spaces
are governed and inspired by the flexible scrim. The surface creates
enclosure and place. The
form of a house defines two modes of the domestic realm: public
and private. The activities within each realm orchestrate and
activate the formal enclosure. The private occurs in the opaque
vertical loop that allows the penetration of light and view while
revealing the intimate actions of interior to exterior. The public
is a transparent glass layer enclosing a public horizontal loop.
Three woven rubber-band walls operate, flexing space, transparency
and light within this living corridor. Their activity governs
space by orchestrating event and composing form. The
diagram of the house in founded on three interior walls fabricated
out of a movable matrix of delicate steel cable supports fixed
in movable glides and then woven together with an elastic membrane
of common rubber bands. These mutable figures establish an elastic
surface that provides privacy, filters light, establishes scale,
defines space and adjusts emotion by riding through the house
in response to the actions of the inhabitant. The membrane, as
a continuous system, adopts the interaction of single point of
interface across the entirety of its surface. The residual spaces
are governed by the flexible surface of enclosure. The
flexibility of the material surface creates a flexibility of the
plan to allow a transparency of occupancy. The suburban home is
transformed through the interaction of occupant and material. |
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