Paris, Kentucky 1998
The owners of this house asked for the kind of mezzanine above the main living space on which they could have a game room. It occurred to me that this could be seen as
an inversion (in section) of the American basement that usually finds its use by default.

In the main living areas, you find the play of free space and transparency associated with modernism, while on the front and rear elevations there is the memory of the porches of the old tenant houses found throughout the Kentucky countryside. The metal barn roof, limestone chimney and redwood porch columns are all intended to urge the owners to enjoy the intensified richness of primary and down-to-earth materials set against the dream of international space.