PIKU RESIDENCE
Detroit, Mi
AIA Design Excellence Award
Photography: Balthazar Korab

t is often understood that the frame is what controls the perception in the observer and the boundary of the object of perception. This project intends to question that premise by presenting two simultaneous alternatives to the riches of observation: by dividing, folding a single line the house becomes both an inside space, as well as an exterior object. And through it, the landscape unfolds, no longer as an implacable spectacle, but rather as yet another edge. This house is both at the center and marginal to that experience. The observer constantly moves, oscillates in this space of in between, appropriating simulaneously nature and geometry, landscape and architecture, vision and echo.

In short, a true exercise of domestication.