Haffenden House
HAFFENDEN HOUSE
PARA
ARCHITECTS
PARA Project
MANUFCATURERS
Rochester Insulated Glass, Buddy Rhodes, Buffalo Felt, Sepp Leaf
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Jon Lott
PROJECT TEAM
Jon Lott, Hilary Pinnington, Paul Kneeply
PHOTOGRAPHS
Nathan Rader
AREA
1125.0 ft²
YEAR
2014
LOCATION
Syracuse, United States
CATEGORY
Houses
Text description provided by architect.
The Haffenden House is a writing studio with a garage/breezeway at ground-level, library and writing space on the second level, and a curved/soft reading room on the third level.
The project finds itself within the suburban realm, referencing Gianni Pettena’s Ice House from 1972, like a blank spot within the repetitive image of “house.”
In the rear yard, the fabric solution is used on the interior as a curtain, offering the owners the flexibility to control the relationship of privacy within their context.
The poet’s studio uses a translucent silicon-impregnated fabric skin for a light-filled writing room without the visual distraction of the suburbs.
Inside the blank box, between the second and third levels, the section uses a bowl-shaped division, maximizing indirect light for the second level and avoiding any association with the landscape on the third.
