Cabin on a Hill is a small summer cabin located in Joe English Hill in NH, US, designed to explore independence, isolation, self-reliance, and simple living through identifying and exaggerating tectonic conventions in typical American wood-frame houses. “Blocking”, a common bracing technique found in wood-frame constructions, is leveraged and extended as a sectional device in creating a second roof layer, serving both spatial and structural purposes. The summer cabin is an unpartitioned whole where necessary programmatic segregations are made through variations in height. The ground condition draws reference from Shinohara’s Tanikawa House. The use of foil-cladded insulation panels takes inspiration from Lewerentz’s black box studio.
Advised by Paul Anderson and Paul Preissner, Fall 2022, Module Studio 1, Harvard GSD