Spiral House by Joeb Moore Partners Architects

Spiral House by Joeb Moore

The Spiral House seeks to engage, enhance and reflect the surrounding coastal climate and its atmospherics of light, air, water. Conceptually, the house is the resultant form and operation of an interface and tension between two systems of geometry, one projective (fixed) and the other, radial (dynamic). Through a overlapping system of spatial and geometric progression, growth, and interference the social-spatial roles of public and private, interior and exterior, house and landscape are intimately connected and entwined, and yet are also left curiously open-ended and indeterminate much like the water itself. Overall, the house (and its underlying dual geometries) operates precisely and creatively within the found and prescribed social and environmental boundaries of the site to produce a dynamic, experience-oriented dwelling.

wood curtain wall Spiral House by Joeb Moore

The contrast between the spiral wood structure, its vertical wood-fin skin, against the concrete plinth and ramp, and the transparent/reflective glass curtain wall system sandwiched between all combine to produce a rich and complex range of shifting perceptual effects that again mirror and re-present the house within the context of the coastal surroundings and atmosphere.
Architects: Joeb Moore + Partners Architects
House in: Lower Fairfield County Coast, Connecticut, USA