MICROMULTIPLE HOUSE
This house is based on a mass-producable system implemented as an interconnected network of small, flexible bands. The bands are flat steel trusses, scaled to fit and stack into standard delivery trucks and shipping containers—hence processes of construction and distribution are engineered into the system at the front end.
Read MoreThe bands operate according to simple rules, incorporating various behaviors and patterns of movement into their forms. Through topological bending and twisting, they conduct or arrest flows of bodies, vehicles, and light. Stairs, windows, and doors evolve performatively rather than being added syntactically. The house emerges as a continuous living room, an effect of flexible, opportunistic processes and practices. Unlike Le Corbusier’s famous “machine for living,” this house is an abstract machinic organization.
LOCATION
Los Angeles - California
CLIENT
FRAC Center, Paris
YEAR
2023 - ONGOING
STATUS
Design Development
TYPE
Theatre
DESIGN TEAM
PROJECT TEAM
“A stage from another world, built for this world.”
The building’s megalithic slabs lean playfully on each other, like a scale model or a house of cards. They step down the cliffs, relating to the context in a surprising, raw way.