Ex of IN House, Hudson Valley, New York – Steven Holl Architects

The Ex of IN House explores a language of space, aimed at inner spatial energy strongly bound to the ecology of the place. The Ex of IN House is a built manifestation of the research and development project Explorations of “IN” developed by Steven Holl Architects since June 2014. The house is sited on twenty-eight acres of forested rock outcroppings in the Hudson Valley, upstate New York. Originally slated to be a subdivision with five suburban house plots, the site was joined into one experimental topological reserve. As a compressed form of 918 square feet, the house is an alternative to suburban houses that sprawl in the landscape. The house’s geometry is formed by the intersection of spherical spaces with tesseract trapezoids, catalyzing volumetric inner space. Situated around one main volume, open to the second level, with the kitchen placed in the center, alternative use patterns are created. The shift in section of the house alters internal space with vertical dynamic spatial overlap. Video credit: Spirit of Space Thumbnail photo credit: Iwan Baan