The corner of the Lucy House by the Rural Studio. This design was originally for an extremely wealthy Long Island Family where the project did not work out. To prove a point about 'high design' being affordable, Mockbee took this design and with a shift to reused materials like old carpet samples (the stacked walls in the photo) he made an affordable house in Alabama for a family in poverty.
Not far away in Georgia is one of the 'carpet centers' of the US, so the students got the tiles and brought them over to create wall, with vertical rods through the carpet, and a bond beam at the top to hold the wall together.
It's a fantastic design, learn more here: www.cadc.auburn.edu/soa/rural-studio
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