Mask House

Designed by American studio WOJR: Organization for Architecture in Ithaca, NY, the Mask House provides a place of refuge and contemplation, in dialogue with the surrounding environment.

The Mask House provides a place of refuge and contemplation for one who lost his younger brother in the lake that the house overlooks. It is conceptualized as a space comprised of myriad sanctuaries – within the context of this project sanctuary is a place of separation and protection that removes one from the world of the everyday and offers passage to an other world.

The transition from everyday to other is drawn-out through a series of thresholds that define a scalar sequence of nested interior – each interior becoming successively more removed from one world and more connected to the next.

The vertical plane of the mask establishes a boundary across the site that creates a condition of sidedness. Mask House endeavors to provide one in search of sanctuary an abundance of opportunities to find refuge within new interiors in dialogue with the surrounding environment.

Mask House, Ithaca, NY
Program: single family house
Architect: WOJR: Organization for Architecture
Design Team: William O’Brien Jr., John David Todd, Gabrielle Piazza Patawaran, Justin Gallagher, Kian Hiu Lan Yam, Joey Swerdlin
Visualisation: Alexis Nicolas Basso
Area: 55 sqm
Year: 2013-ongoing

Mask House

Designed by American studio WOJR: Organization for Architecture in Ithaca, NY, the Mask House provides a place of refuge and contemplation, in dialogue with the surrounding environment.

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