Vacation

The study for the Oil Nut Bay Residence looks at the traditional prototypical home: the courtyard house. Using this typology allowed us to study the programmatic and climatic benefits utilized for centuries. Beginning there, the courtyard volume is sliced and expanded to a bar in order to work with the steep topography and existing conditions of the site. Courtyards and subtractions then begin to carve away at this bar, bringing light and greenery into the interior of the spaces, while breaking up the interior program and elongating the house. The effect of this elongation is that rather than a large building which stands in contrast to the topography, the Oil Nut Bay Residence is a linear building, which parallels the c... More