Libby Cipriani

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CASE STUDY BRIEF Although we have to acknowledge how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way we treat our homes, we must use it as a catalyst to highlight the flaws in our current living situations and improve them. Homes were forced to not only become a place of eating, sleeping, and gathering, but they also became a place of work meetings, classrooms, and interviews. In the post-covid house, we must create enough space to allow for all of these actions while still having a place to come home to even if we never left home. As we deal with scarcity and enviromental concerns, we must acknowledge the importance of using the right materials. We have to be conscious in how these materials insulate and provide structures, but we also must take time and resourced used into account. We must study not only the most efficient raw materials, but the overall system of how we operate and build our homes. As we move forward, we must acknowledge that home has a completely different use and interpretation.

As designers we must create spaces that allow for flexibility of spaces as the world around us is constantly changing to eliminate the need for rebuilding and wasting materials. The modern midwest home must adapt around its inhabitants to not only provide a space for them to live, but better there life inside their home.

In this design, I seperated the three main functions of a home-- work, entertaining, and sleeping-- into their own buildings (mounds) to create a physical separation to allow for efficent time managment and improving upon the health of my clients. Within the home, there is a central spinal hallway that connects the large entertainment mound to the sleeping mound. The length allows for privacy in the sleeping spaces while still allowing the bedrooms to feel apart of the home. The office mound is arranged along the spine but not connected directly to separate work and living or sleeping. Through cutting holes through the mounds allows for views into the vast farm landscape to allow for my family to have a greater connection to nature.

The massive mounds creates a form of protection from exterior forces but also acts as an insulator and its form allows for water collection to run along the mounds to follow out into the landscape.

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SECTION THROUGH OFFICE To create a seamless view to the outdoors, the openings are cut with a slanted line.

In smaller rooms with high ceilings, the opening is located on the ceiling to work as a natural lighting fixture. In larger rooms with lower ceilings, the openings become floor to ceiling windows to blend the lines between interior and exterior spaces. Rooms that are secondary or closets are within the mounds. Public spaces are protruding through to the exterior while private spaces are hidden within the mound. The way in which a guest would approach the home is through the main enterance in which they funneled into the living room but can have a complete view through the whole building back into nature. Inbetween the entertainment mound and sleeping mound, one must walk through an all glazed hallway to achieve the feeling of transition between the two spaces, allowing the home owner to change their mindset into a mode for sleeping.

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