Wilderness House, Astoria, Oregon, USA
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Diane Lewis Architect
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Project
1990
The project involves the design of a new 6000 sq.ft. house for a painter and a composer on a densely forested site.
To create views above the canopy, the project proposed a heavy timber roof truss structure which houses a library. The roof truss structure, which incorporate south-facing monitors providing over-all daylighting, shelters a “box” at the second level of the house and, at the ground level, an enclosed intersection core with four surrounding -Court/Rooms-; Living Court; Music and Sculpture Court; Workshop and Studio Court. Each of these courts have retractable walls on two sides permitting the house to open at its perimeter, thus extending into the landscape and appearing to suspend above the packed earth ground plane.
