Syncline House Ground Loop Structural Geology Design Strategy
The project of building this house as the boundary between the city and mountain parks. This house was designed utilizing the ground loop heat exchange system that touches the runway. The envelope consists of glass and a half percent of the buildings, steel frame structure used as a substitute for traditional stick framing the entire home. Thick walls are steel brace frames that combine vierendeel vertical rolls to resist 120 mile per hour winds down from the mountains.
Domestic shrub flowering trees, solid wood walls, broken only by an upright stone walls, open to the interior of the house. Once inside, stone walls become thickened poche mechanics and service elements leading through the western wall of the house, glass walls framing mountain parks. Cantilevers simple steps from the stone wall. Experientially scissoring to landscape and back into the mountains to connect households with home gardens.
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