HOUSE OF MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS
existing in memory, and anticipation

date: 2004

It is a villa, or palace, which exists in it's entirety over the course of the year, but only a small portion is visible at any one time. Its construction, from automated pultruding devices, is ongoing, and as new spaces are formed throughout the year the oldest are removed.

By using only the portion of the site necessary at any given moment, it creates a new relationship to land, and property. Like the Katsura Villa, its quality changes with each month, but it accomplishes this by physically rebuilding itself in an adjacent location. Walking throughout the succession of evolving spaces of the house is like walking through a maze: the sequence of spaces reveals only one small part of the villa at a time as the visitor moves along through the seasonal changes of the year and the surrounding landscape.

Like the higher dimensional characters from E. Abbott's "Flatland" and similar visions, we can only experience a single slice of the house at any one moment. As a house of the future it allows a virtually infinite building to exist in a small three-dimensional space. The whole building exists only in memory, and anticipation.