Counter Landscape

1911 S Christiana Ave Chicago, IL 60623 fall 2021, studio III with Penelope Dean & Grant Gibson elevations

This project conflates two elements of the house, the counter and the garden, as the functional, social and circulatory organizers of this communal project for three. The counter is stacked, multifaceted and quite rigid. The landscape is an undulating soft carpet surface, adjusting the body to necessary counter heights as well as acting as a sleeping space, eliminating the need for conventional bedrooms. Unlike the traditional Chicago 3-flat, this scenario proposes access to the landscape at every level, consolidating the vertical, functional elements to the datum of counter, and expanding the realm of horizontality and leisure to the remaining surfaces.