DESCRIPTION

Intentionally more than furniture and less than a building, the project embodies the essence of a room, stripped to its most fundamental definition:

One wall, one slab, and one chair condensed into an object. Louis Kahn defines the room as “the beginning of architecture.” Life unfolds around this room rather than within four walls. It extends the architectural plan of the house into the garden.

Encountering the roots of nearby trees even gave the underground foundations a particular design property as they encased the roots rather than replaced them, tying the project to the garden in a way that felt both unplanned and deeply intentional. Over time, table and tree evolve—one alive, the other inert—coexisting until the roots grow within and around the foundation, subtly shifting each other as they progressively become one entity.

This project invites a prolonged dwelling in the garden: usage beyond the schedule, norms, or codes presented by furniture – a wall-less room in the realm of architecture.