This project involves designing a group of five rooms, one of which seems to be hidden from the other four. The program requires providing a means of access to the hidden room while controlling the degree to which the room becomes vulnerable to disclosure.
Rooms are defined by the Reflected Ceiling Plan: Each room is shifted and sheared to allow for a gable peak to define one side of a room - and a gable valley to define the other side. In this case, the hidden room requires a close reading. The hidden room reverses this peak and valley organization by eroding part of the interior nested gable. The center room “flips” the expectation and therefore creates a room that is hidden in plan, but exposed in section.
