STRAUCHAUS:
Location: Bend, OR
Completed 2008, Strauch Construction

This home rests on the edge of a wooded area. The diagramming process analyzed the program and needs of the two owners in effort to resolve a cohesive experiential sequencing of spaces, suggest massing arrangements and uncover elevation compositions. The abstraction of the program is made in effort to make the two paths, the movement, and the connections become an extension of the landscape.

As the building takes form, the graphic maps and modeled paths begin to prescribe how the structure relates to the surrounding context. A patterning of thin floor-to-ceiling windows connects the structure to the neighboring forestry by continuing the event of a body passing through the forest.