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Zag House | Actual Office Architecture
iddqd StudioVanguard
Zag House is a single-family house in Castleton-on-Hudson, NY.
It is designed to hold generous living spaces for a retired couple, and guest spaces for children and grandchildren who come to visit.
The basic form of the house is an extruded gable, which is bent into a ‘zag.’
It balances the client’s desire for traditional residential forms and materials, with an interest in exploring how these forms and materials can be used to compose residential architecture in unexpected ways.
In this project, the traditional, iconic gable form has been extruded and manipulated to organize the main interior and exterior spaces of the house, and patterns defined by typical residential cladding materials have been tilted and rotated to create complimentary wall and roof facades.
It is designed to hold generous living spaces for a retired couple, and guest spaces for children and grandchildren who come to visit.
The basic form of the house is an extruded gable, which is bent into a ‘zag.’
It balances the client’s desire for traditional residential forms and materials, with an interest in exploring how these forms and materials can be used to compose residential architecture in unexpected ways.
In this project, the traditional, iconic gable form has been extruded and manipulated to organize the main interior and exterior spaces of the house, and patterns defined by typical residential cladding materials have been tilted and rotated to create complimentary wall and roof facades.
The projected lines run continuously over exterior surfaces of the house, the roof, walls, and decks.
They are used to define spacing and orientation of metal roofing and wood siding.
The result is a building derived from iconic form and traditional materials that clearly conveys its residential character, but it does so in an unconventional manner.
They are used to define spacing and orientation of metal roofing and wood siding.
The result is a building derived from iconic form and traditional materials that clearly conveys its residential character, but it does so in an unconventional manner.
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