Project Details
- Project Name
- The Matchbox House
- Location
-
MI ,United States
- Architect
- Bureau for Architecture & Urbanism
- Client/Owner
- Hormoz and Azar Alizadeh
- Project Types
-
Custom ,Single Family
- Size
- 1,900 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2012
- Shared by
- BAU
- Consultants
-
General Contractor: Brian Halprin,Structural Engineer: Cory Johnston
- Certifications & Designations
- LEED Platinum
- Project Status
- Built
- Cost
- $400,000
- Style
- Modern
Project Description
The Matchbox House is a small 4 bedroom home tucked into the woods near Ann Arbor, Michigan. The house, in elevation, is meant to recall an iconic, 4 sided house, with the fifth side (the bottom) articulated because the house is raised on a concrete plinth. In plan, the house resembles a "matchbox", where an exterior sleeve and an interior sleeve (in this case, 4 quadrant interior sleeves) function and read separately from each other.
