MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
An architect's own home, this new house is located in a neighborhood
developed in the early 1940s. The design strategy was to create a
building defined by scale, proportion, symmetry and order and rendered in
materials appropriate to that tradition; an elegant composition rich with
detail and engaging in its presentation. The home was designed to be
functional, site specific and responsive to its Southern residential
architectural heritage.
The plan defines an arrangement of spaces which flow freely through full-height openings into the barrel-vaulted living room, the central space where ground floor, second floor and exterior converge. The fireplace with its rotated exterior brick chimney, provides focus for this relationship. A vista through the house over the front door lintel suggests the openness of the interior. While the front of the house reflects the scale and character of the streetscape, the rear is almost completely transparent and is open to the terrace.