A handful of Steven Holl-designed buildings will be popping up in the next few years, with the groundbreaking of the Maggie's Centre Barts in London last month and construction of the Queens Library already underway in New York. 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.

Located in a rural forest landscape, the house is a physical manifestation of the firm's 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.

↑ Models and watercolor drawing by Steven Holl

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 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".

↑ Spherical Intersections - watercolor drawing by Steven Holl

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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.

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