Steven Holl Architects recently announced the groundbreaking of another New York-based project called the Ex of In House, slated for completion in May 2016 in the village of Rhinebeck.

The project designed by Steven Holl Architects is located in a rural forest landscape, as a non-profit extension of the locally based  "T"Space art gallery, the 918 square-foot artists' residence aims to preserve 28 acres of landscape and wild-animal habitats that were originally intended to be subdivided into five suburban house plots. The house is a physical manifestation of the Steven Holl architects' ongoing research project "Explorations of 'IN'". Established in June 2014, the research project explores and challenges the clichés of architectural language and commercial practice, including drawings and studies entitled with colorful names like Triple Venn Diagram Mutilation and Hybrid Combinations: Tesseract within a Cubic Sphere.

The Ex of In House is described by the design team — Steven Holl, Dimitra Tsachrelia, Marcus Carter, Ruoyu Wei, and Yuliya Savelyeva — as an "exploration of a language of space, [an] aim at inner spatial energy, [and] shaping public space and social openness". The house is a single, compressed form that is intersected by three spherical voids. Its interior is designed as one large room on three levels, equipped with a centrally located kitchen. The solar-powered house uses fossil fuel for heating and will be cooled geothermally.

CREDITS. DATA SHEET.

Architect.- Steven Holl.
Collaborators.- Dimitra Tsachrelia, Marcus Carter.
Project Team.- Ruoyu Wei, Yuliya Savelyeva.
Structural Engineer.- Robert Silman Associates.
Geothermal Engineer.- Matthias Schuler.
Area.- 918.0 ft².
Completion year.- 2016.

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Steven Holl was born in 1947 in Bremerton, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970. In 1976 he attended the Architectural Association in London and established STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS in New York City. Considered one of America's most important architects.He has realized cultural, civic, academic and residential projects both in the United States and internationally. Most recently completed are the Cité de l'Océan et du Surf in Biarritz, France (2011).

Steven Holl is a tenured Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. He has lectured and exhibited widely and has published numerous texts.

Recently the office has won a number of international design competitions including the new design for the Contemporary Art Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, USA) and he has been recognized with architecture's most prestigious awards and prizes. Recently, he received the RIBA 2010 Jencks Award, and the first ever Arts Award of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2009). In 2006 Steven Holl received honorary degrees from Seattle University and Moholy-Nagy University in Budapest. In 2003 he was named Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Steven Holl is a member of the American National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), the American Institute of Architects, the American Association of Museums, the Honorary Whitney Circle, the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the International Honorary Committee, Vilpuri Library, of the Alvar Aalto Foundation.

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