The duplex is shared by a couple and two artists, each maintaining an individual sphere while also entering into shifting collective configurations: artist with artist, couple with artist, and other permutations.
A series of three thickened walls divide the project into four bays, where strategic carving allows all circulation, ancillary programs, and apertures to be absorbed into what are conceived as solid walls.
"Everything" is stuffed into the walls...
The positions of these walls, dictated by the given plan, set the stairs in place, generating a volumetric shift and a sectional interlocking of each resident’s unit. At the same time, this logic forces a sectional misalignment in the fourth bay, specifically at the landings, which prompts the emergence of a clinging, secondary volume.
The walls read as solid and the bays read as open from within the building in the plans.
But the exterior presents an inverse reading: the bays register as solid while the walls appear as gaps. This seemingly simple binary, coupled with the building’s proportional playfulness, puts forward a mode of living that is outwardly quite ordinary, yet carries a subtle tectonic, material, and spatial imagination.
