Shadowboxx New Home in San Juan Islands, United States

June 27, 2011 Category: House, Residential

The San Juan Islands, United States designed by Olson Kundig Architects is located in San Juan Islands, United States. The building purposely confuses the traditional boundaries between a built structure and its surroundings. Its masses are modeled by winds off the water, exterior cladding is allowed to weather and rust, and shifting doors, shutters, walls and roofs constantly modulate the threshold between inside and outside.

Inside the home, a gallery runs the length of the house with rooms spilling off of it. Two 15’ by 10’ steel clad doors slide open to reveal the main living space, named the cloud room for its ever-changing atmospherics. A glass-walled bunkroom, it contains six custom-designed rolling platforms that serve both as sofas and beds and enable the room to morph and accommodate different functions.

Shadowboxx New Home design by Olson Kundig Architects