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Trinocular House

  • Residential
Stowe, VT
2017

Trinocular House is built between three distinct landscapes: a flat orchard, a sloped hillside, and body of water, each faced and framed through a gable, and conjoined with a continuous glass-fronted trefoil circulation loop, allowing for an unbroken yet differentiated view of the site, and unfettered wheelchair accessibility to accommodate the client’s elderly parents. As the mountainous horizon undulates, so does the line of the roof, oscillating between the gable and the ribbon window. Faces, fronts, and frames overlap and merge, centering and recentering views to the landscape.

Fig. 1

Eugene Ionesco – The Three Faces of Helene Cixous, 1955

Fig. 2

Plan level 01

Fig. 3–7

Views panning across the kitchen and living area

Fig. 3

Views panning across the kitchen and living area

Fig. 4

Views panning across the kitchen and living area

Fig. 5

Views panning across the kitchen and living area

Fig. 6

Views panning across the kitchen and living area

Fig. 7

Views panning across the kitchen and living area

Fig. 8

Aerial view

Fig. 9

Exterior view

Fig. 10

Exterior privacy screen

Fig. 11–12

Evening views

Fig. 11

Evening views

Fig. 12

Evening views

Fig. 13

Stair and wine rack

Fig. 14

View from the living area

Fig. 15

Dining area
  • Team: J. Jih
  • Photos: James Leng
  • GC: Cypress Woodworks
  • Structural Engineer: Andy Harris Engineering
  • Curtainwall: ACME Glass
  • Concrete: Arro Design
  • Millwork: Pomerantz Cabinetry

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