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MOS Architects designed the Floating House on Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada: The Floating House is the intersection of a vernacular house typology with the shifting site-specific conditions of this unique place: an island on Lake Huron. The location on the Great Lakes imposed complexities to the house’s fabrication and construction, as well as its [...]

La Cornetta is a country house sited on the slope of a small hill with pastoral landscape. The soaring roof shaped as nun-like wimple cornet, while the dwelling rooms beneath modeled as traditional Quebec houses. This house for celebrations and holidays, designed for two families, is set into the naturally uneven terrain in a way [...]

Built in the hills above Noe Valley, the structure commands sweeping views of the Oakland Hills and the city skyline below, the H House takes a strong modernist stance while still respecting the scale and proportionality of its neighbors. Purposed to be a modest – a simple boxy two story structure. However, the deceivingly spacious [...]

Located at on a steep and rugged foothill of Little Cottonwood Canyon just south of Salt Lake City, Utah, Canyon House is sited and takes full advantage of its spectacular mountainous views. With a low profile and its emphasized horizontality, nearly half of the three-story house is buried below grade to reduce its apparent mass [...]