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Howard Falls, PA

Residential

2025

5,320 GSF
760 SF (Outdoor)

Competition, Shortlisted

The project explores splitting geometry as a central design strategy—fracturing the building mass not as an act of division, but as a way of carving space for breathing room, light, and nature. These incisions open the architecture to its surroundings, inviting wind, daylight, and vegetation into the heart of the building. The resulting fissures are not empty voids, but living corridors—linear gardens where trees can root and grow upward through the cracks, softening the built form with vertical landscapes and shifting the boundary between interior and exterior.

This strategy reframes solidity as something negotiable rather than fixed. By breaking the mass into porous segments, the architecture gains spatial depth and environmental permeability. Movement through the building becomes a sequence of compression and release, where moments of enclosure are balanced by openings to sky, greenery, and air. The splits operate both spatially and experientially, shaping circulation, views, and microclimates while allowing nature to become an active participant in the architecture.

The building’s geometry continues to evolve as it responds to the ground beneath it. Rather than resting as a rigid, imposed volume, the form bends and curves along the contours of the topography, yielding to natural flows of water, light, and movement. This responsiveness transforms the structure into something adaptive and porous, capable of adjusting to its site rather than resisting it.

Ultimately, the architecture positions itself as a mediator between the built and the living. It operates as a flexible system that supports coexistence between human occupation and ecological growth, where building and landscape are understood not as separate conditions, but as parts of the same evolving spatial continuum.

Howard Cascades

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