TOWNHOUSE REVISITED COMPETITION/ WINNING ENTRY/ SELECTED AS ONE THE NEW CHICAGO SEVEN BY THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION
The Townhouse is in response to its exterior influences of our fast society, capturing the action along a city strip. The main element is the billboard. It becomes a continuation of the visual background noise in our cities. The screen-wall becomes the main structure creating a clear zone allowing vehicles to drive under and through the site. The passing of the car begins to influence the form above the clear zone. This is evident in the use of action as in the hood of a car and the roof, the protection of the car in a garage and the garage door and our facade, the structure of a car and our floor construction and the function of the interior of a car and the use of the sleeping cabs. The screen-wall appears on the exterior facade allowing for the owner to influence the city strip by a louvered billboard. The combination of the screen-wall and vehicle use creates a blurring of the background noise of the city and townhouse.