PROJECT BY AVERY WHITNEY
The primary goal for this project was to design a home that addresses the original Case Study House prompt of using contemporary construction technologies to meet the demand for single family housing in America. For the purpose of this project, I used CLT as a way to introduce sustainability and optimize the assembly of the home, while simultaneously adapting the design to highlight the strengths of CLT, including its regularity, its structural capacity, its aesthetic beauty, and its versatile applications to different scales of design. Using a combination of lap joints and finger joints to connect the CLT, I was able to develop a panelized system of construction that allows for the customization of a basic repeated gable module that can be expanded in the length and height dimensions depending on the spatial requirements of the occupying household.
To demonstrate the flexibility of the material qualities of CLT, I designed furnishings for the home including a collapsable rocking chair, as well as a habitable installation to showcase the types of joinery and windows imagined for the home.
case study redux 2.0 spring 2023.
Exterior perspective rendering showing the rear elevation of the home.
Series of diagrams and drawings used to illustrate my design process from the research phase to the final product.
case study redux 2.0 spring 2023. ROCKINGCHAIR
ROCKINGCHAIR
case study redux 2.0 spring 2023. INSTALLATIONDESIGN
INSTALLATIONDESIGN