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Saltmaker's House
Second Year Undergraduate: Spring 2010
The siting for the saltmaker’s house was in the Falls Ridge Nature Preserve, on the outskirts of Blacksburg, VA. The forest became the inspiration for a regenerative architecture. Precast concrete columns became the permanent interventions on the site. Notches in these columns allowed for standardized framing lumber to be inserted and create interior spaces. These spaces could utilize as little, or as much of the matrix as necessary. As time progressed new programs and structures could inhabit the matrix by transforming the interior spaces as needed. This approach allows buildings to remain useful by adapting them instead of destroying and rebuilding.