Emboss House
Emboss House
This project began with a simple concept of embossing: the extrusion of surfaces. By beginning to apply a shape, like a square or rectangle, to a surface, a space is created on one side and an object forms simultaneously on the other. The scalar variety of these extrusions has a number of effects both spatially and functionally. A shorter extrusion can be used as a step up or down, a taller one can be a bench or bed, and an extremely large extrusion can perform as an entire room. This concept was applied to a spatialization problem, taking advantage of the duality that is inherent in embossing. By removing one plane of the extrusions, the embossed elements form accessible enclosures at a number of scales. The gathering space consists of multiple steps of downward extrusions, both delineating space and providing seating on a surface while bedrooms became fully extruded and inhabitable spaces, rather than extrusions within a room. Ultimately, these embossments achieved spacialization individually, through their interaction with each other and through their negative or positive occupation of space and, with some nuance, are adapted into a functional home.