XS HOME
CECILIA CHARNEY
My tiny house community focuses on the contrast between the experience of a warm, expansive, and open interior and a private site aggregation in an urban environment.
My concept grew out of studies of my collage model, inspired by the folding and perspective views of sidewalks wrapping around the gardens of Bridgeport homes. My form came from my collage model’s rotation. I began with a folded rectilinear home and rotated the roof, and then adjusted the walls to bridge the offset planes.
A rotation in the geometry creates a large volume for a small square footage and a large glass opening that wraps around the faceted walls and floods the interior with light. Even with large openings, the units remain private in an urban environment through rotating geometry, that shields interior views from the street, perforated metal screens, and a raised site along South Wallace Street.
The site is organized so the homes sit off a spiral entry path. One would enter from South Wallace onto this main path. A resident would transition from this path through a screened entrance into the interior. The interior is open, with the space continuing to spiral from public to private programming. The center or back of the home has the most conventional form, where the bathroom and private programming is located. In the back of the home, large openings face away from the central entry path and towards the sides of the site.
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Hathaway Section - Spring 2020 