OPEN House
Seattle, WA
While working at NAC Architecture
Seattle Design Festival | TRUST
OPENhouse is a gathering space that invites the public to engage within an intimate and semi-transparent temporary shelter in downtown Seattle. The team created OPENhouse as an installation that challenges notions of spatial privacy and provokes conversation about trust and perception through manipulating the vernacular house form. This project was initiated by a small group of NAC staff interested in producing an installation addressing the Seattle Design Festival’s theme of ”Trust”.
Social Transparency
OPENhouse highlights our false sense of privacy by giving transparency to an intimate and familiar space. This is achieved by utilizing the traditional house form and perverting it to become increasingly transparent as the viewer moves further away. The use of polycarbonate spacers to conceal electrical wiring and structural steel rods gives the optical illusion of floating plywood panels—this manipulation of offers a difference of experience between the outside and inside-out.
