A single-family home at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, House 001 is the subversion of conventional notions of the house and domesticity by a reversal: designing inside-out. Research on the mid-century American Case Study homes informed the design of House 001 in the way that relationships between objects, furnishings, decor, structure, envelope, and landscaping comprised a gesamtkunstwerk - nothing out of place, everything with intention, the house a total work of art. The house and domesticity was re-imagined from the inside-out.

Mobile furniture plays a literally active role for the family - furniture capable of "keeping up" by virtue of their expediency, convenience and portability, including things that roll (like pillows on wheels), mobile desks, beanbag chairs, and a plethora of portable cushions for instant seating anywhere.

Structural concrete columns allow for open plan living with the added benefit of cozy pockets that create multi-functional spaces for lounging, conversation, sleeping or dining. These areas stage the flow, coincidence and intersection of activities that characterize a lifestyle of fluid openness and clustered intimacy.

CNC milled insulation slabs to be prepped for painting.

The addition of a zen garden of stepped gravel beds and ferns becomes a contemplative break from and counterpoint to interior activity.