Precedent
PROJECT: Chicken Point Cabin
LOCATON: Chicken Point, Idaho, U.S.A.
OWNER: Unknown
ARCHITECT: Olson Kundig Allen Architects
CONSULTING ENGINEERS: Monte Clark Engineering
CONTRACTOR: Doric Creager, MC Company, Spokane
FUNCION: Residential Architecture
PROJECT COMPLETION: 2002
The Chicken Point Cabin is Located in the North Western area of the states, Idaho. In Idaho the climates are similar to its neighbor state Washington where it is much cloudy and precipitates almost all throughout the year. The site itself is surrounded by a hill that is sloping down towards the Hayden Lake and the cabin is surrounded by trees since the cabin is located near a forest. This existing landscape naturally creates both a privacy and openness toward the nature.
Towards this prject Tom Kundig tries to create perform a style of organic architecture; similar to Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic style where implementing the fact that we humans are no different than other creatures in this earth but we are actually a part of this earth.
“The problem that humans have is that we fetishize nature,” Kundig says. “It’s almost as if we have divorced ourselves from the fundamental idea that we are just another species on the earth that happens to be a little more clever, a little more vicious, and a little more dangerous to the earth.” The thin membrane that is this cabin is meant both to protect us from nature, then, and protect nature from us.”
Regarding materials and zoning of the house; Tom Kundig tries using as much natural elements as possible; using material based on the experiences that each space requires. Such as in the living area the space is divided as two, it is still one space but with where the opening is and how the material is used it divides the living into a private and public living area. In the northern living area; the room feels really much enclosed due the cinder blocked walls and the size of the room compared to the opened living room.
LOCATON: Chicken Point, Idaho, U.S.A.
OWNER: Unknown
ARCHITECT: Olson Kundig Allen Architects
CONSULTING ENGINEERS: Monte Clark Engineering
CONTRACTOR: Doric Creager, MC Company, Spokane
FUNCION: Residential Architecture
PROJECT COMPLETION: 2002
The Chicken Point Cabin is Located in the North Western area of the states, Idaho. In Idaho the climates are similar to its neighbor state Washington where it is much cloudy and precipitates almost all throughout the year. The site itself is surrounded by a hill that is sloping down towards the Hayden Lake and the cabin is surrounded by trees since the cabin is located near a forest. This existing landscape naturally creates both a privacy and openness toward the nature.
Towards this prject Tom Kundig tries to create perform a style of organic architecture; similar to Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic style where implementing the fact that we humans are no different than other creatures in this earth but we are actually a part of this earth.
“The problem that humans have is that we fetishize nature,” Kundig says. “It’s almost as if we have divorced ourselves from the fundamental idea that we are just another species on the earth that happens to be a little more clever, a little more vicious, and a little more dangerous to the earth.” The thin membrane that is this cabin is meant both to protect us from nature, then, and protect nature from us.”
Regarding materials and zoning of the house; Tom Kundig tries using as much natural elements as possible; using material based on the experiences that each space requires. Such as in the living area the space is divided as two, it is still one space but with where the opening is and how the material is used it divides the living into a private and public living area. In the northern living area; the room feels really much enclosed due the cinder blocked walls and the size of the room compared to the opened living room.