Ritual Consciousness | Rural Guest House Graduate Florida House Seminar- Spring 2013 Critic- Martin Gundersen Site- Belleview, Florida
The guest house assumes a posture of respect for the exterior and is elevated, generating a dialog with the surrounding landscape. Slide panel windows allow the guest house to open almost completely to the outside, allowing for the full blurring between the borders of inside and outside within the main living space. 6
The guest house is situated in a pasture bordering the main house and adapts to its surrounding through two volumes organized in a linear distribution that define the usage areas and programs. The first volume is where all daytime activities happen: the entrance, kitchen, and living room, whereas the second volume contains the private functions--the bedroom and bathroom.