
This twisted architecture design small vacation house named Allandale House located in Mountain West, USA by William O’Brien Jr. The house links three horizontal extrusions of “leaning,” or asymmetrical A-frames. The skinny A-frame on the western side contains the library, wine cellar and garage. The wide A-frame in the center of the house is dedicated to two floors of bedrooms and bathrooms. The medium A-frame on the eastern side consists of living, kitchen and dining areas. The house aims to undermine the seeming limitations of a triangular section by augmenting and revealing the extreme proportion in the vertical direction, and utilizing the acutely angled corners meeting the floor as moments for thickened walls, telescopic apertures and built-in storage.

Architect: William O’Brien Jr
Project: Allandale House: A Cabin of Curiosities
Location: Mountain West, 2009-2010
Project Team: Bhujon Kang














