Bridge House by Joeb Moore Partners Architects

bridge house by joeb moore partners architects

The inspiration on the Bridge House is the surrounding environment of parallel ridge of the Housatonic River in Kent, Connecticut. Joeb Moore + Partners Architects translate and mirroring the slow geological and water flow to diagram and strategy where the building becomes a kind of vessel and bridge that appears to spring out of the natural landscape and sloping topography.

Bridge House structure by Joeb Moore Partners Architects

As the house takes on form and volume it turns and bridges across the very landscape that rolling directly under it and down the hillside the house itself is anchored into. The house proper (the wood structure) sits above and is buttressed into the hillside on either side of the living/dining “bridge” by two opposing concrete foundation/buttress/chimney structures with dual “hearths”. The introductory sectional perspective demonstrates this key site and building strategy most vividly and precisely.

interlocking interior Bridge House by Joeb Moore Partners Architects

The house form and its key “inter-locking” interior space, the dual living-dining area, are now open on both sides and turned parallel to the open meadow, the valley floor, and the Housatonic river below. The living/dining area and the vertical stair-light wells are a wonderful example of a kind of camera lucida or viewing chamber that makes continuous adjustments of internal relations (functions, activities, rituals) with external conditions (natural site, views, changing weather, light, and air). It is at these moments, In these chambers the house creates a life-world suspended between land and air.