Project Details
- Project Name
- Outside In House
- Location
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MI ,United States
- Architect
- PLY+
- Client/Owner
- Kathy Bernreuter and Michael Downing
- Project Types
- Custom
- Size
- 1,318 sq. feet
- Shared by
- Xululabs
- Consultants
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Craig Borum, AIA,Julie Simpson,Wiltrud Simbuerger,Sara Dean,Ross Hoekstra,Alex Timmer,Lizzie Yarina,Natasha Mauskapf,Jessica Mattson,Chris Bennett,Jason Prasad
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
Site An active Midwestern farm in Three Oaks, Mich.
Program A single-family weekend house for a family of four.
Solution The third iteration of an investigative wood-frame house designed by Ann Arbor, Mich.–based Ply Architecture, the 1,318-square-foot Outside In House incorporates undulating walls of vacuum-sealed “storm glass” tubes—an 18th-century weather-prediction device whose transparency varies depending on climactic conditions—to separate the interior rooms from a central courtyard. “It’s a pretty profound piece of research that made its way into space,” said juror Mary-Ann Ray. “It’s a modern glass curtainwall that actually infiltrates the space.” The house opens to the outside through operable 3-foot-wide wood panels around the perimeter. “It’s an interesting new plan within an existing rectangle,” juror Joseph Rosa said, “and I think that’s quite beautiful.”
