Hsu House

Project Details

Project Name
Hsu House
Location
DanbyNY
Architect
Epiphyte Lab
Project Types
Single Family
Project Scope
New Construction
Shared By
Katharine Keane
Project Status
Built
Year Completed
2010
Team

Project Description

FROM THE ARCHITECT:

The Hsu House, is a small 2200 sq.ft. house designed using passive solar principles to create an inexpensive, energy efficient dwelling for a young family. Rising out of a hillside south of Ithaca in upstate New York, the bifurcating monopitch roof covers a house organized around a three story main living space, which functions as both spatial nexus and a trombe wall assisted ventilation stack. This space is bifurcated by an interior south facing cast-in-place concrete heat sink mass wall, which stores sensible heat and animates light, creating an all season solarium that, in the summer, opens and unfolds into the natural landscape. Exterior surface of the house features solar-responsive siding pattern animating facade color composite from dark to light according to the its orientation.

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