Sunday, February 21, 2010


These are photos of my finished writer's hut that I designed for poet Billy Collins. Now that the writers hut is completed, we are creating a small villa for the same plot of land, located on a mountain lake in the foothills of the cascades. The villa will face similar issues that the writers hut faced, including a steep slope and very small size. The villa is to be under 650 feet so it will have to be designed very compactly and with function at the top of priorities. Enjoy.





















Sunday, February 14, 2010

This is a design for a small, 64 square foot writers hut. The hut is built on the same land as the land model from my previous post. The space has a bed, desk, bookshelf, and reading chair. The square cutout in the front will be a small reflecting pool that collects rain from the downward sloping portion of the roof. The final model is going to be finished and reviewed in three days.







Monday, February 8, 2010

A Mountain Cabin... part one: The Land


Today I finished making a model of land that our next studio project is situated. The land is a hillside along a lake in the foothills of the Cascades. Although this is not a completed work, I found the land model beautiful by it's self. The next task will be to create a garden on the land...