Threshold House

A house that rejects deterministic prompted architecture

A house that rejects deterministic prompted architecture

Specifications

project details

NATURE OF WORK

Self

YEAR

2025

TYPOLOGY

Residential Architecture

SCOPE

Architecture + Interior Design

AREA

4500 + sq.ft.

LOCATION

Jeromesville, Ohio.

House of Today is a response to the crisis of the model home,those mass-produced, drop-down menu architectures that reduce living to a checklist. In a market where homes are templated and applied to land like products, this project proposes a different logic. Here, architecture begins not with standardised layouts, but with the specificities of site, ritual, and human need. The architecture is conceived as a series of programmatic blocks, discrete, scale-able volumes that house essential functions. These blocks are not fixed into a singular configuration. Instead, they are rearranged based on site orientation, client intention, and spatial curiosity. Every new arrangement yields a new architecture.A hundred versions are possible. This is not a prefab, it’s a platform. Clients become co-authors, testing combinations, pulling volumes apart, discovering in-between spaces.

The house uses Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style as a methodology to explore 99 ways of telling a story. House of Today begins with a simple, familiar gesture, a 4,000 square foot box. Within it, the primary domestic functions like living, dining, bedroom suite, kitchen, parking, circulation are defined as individual volumes. The house is undetermined, meaning every arrangement is a negotiation.

Alternate situations, floor plans.

"But perhaps the most critical spaces in the house are the ones in between. Transitional moments, corridors, thresholds, courtyards are treated not as connectors, but as primary experiences. They frame views. They hold light. They slow you down. You use a room once, but you pass through it twice. It’s in these moments that the house reveals itself, not through scale, but through sequence.

Bespoke Furniture, Inspired by Alan Wexler's Little Office Cabinet #2 1987

Bespoke Storage Units, Inspired by Eileen Grey and her customized rotating shutters

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