The most secret place in a urban environment.
The ousideIN rowhouse is a space for all the activites of living.
Its open space facilitates a flexibility of daily rhythm and ritual.
Rather then circumscribing specific activates into rooms,
three vertically overlapping zones serve different modes of living: spaces for prospect, refuge, and reflection.
A high probability of interaction between living beings characterizes zones of prospect.
While zones of refuge are characterized by safety, comfort, and rest.
The zones of reflection connect the house to the sky, where learning and thinking are fully engaged.
These three private activities are fortified from the city within one solid shell.
The secret space is a bright open indoor landscape that is removed and insulated from the city.
What we typically consider outside, the lawn, garden, pool, deck, and driveway come inside.
The the ousideIN house is a climatized outdoors, garden living year round.
All that remains of the standard outdoors is an urban gesture, one tree and a vertical garden that
function as both facade and front lawn.
The concentration of life inside the house is greater then in the urban territory surrounding it.
An ecosystem is established where architecture, humans, animals, plants, and machines coexist
and support each other.
the ground floor of the house is like a hanger. open and flexible to accomodate a wide range of
productive and social activites.
the second and third floor are removed from the street life below, but are permiated
by its sights, sounds, and smells.
the interior divides into three permiable spaces:
prospect at the street level, refuge just above,
and reflection at the top.
drive in, bike in, walk in, or jump in!
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