Ghost Lab X, a two week design +build workshop presented by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects in Nova Scotia, focused on the construction of a min/max house.

The house prototype will embody both the idea of minimum and maximum simultaneously. Two simple structures will extend the maximum width of the site. The captured landscape becomes an interstitial, 1000’ long ‘courtyard’ space, charged with potential. The structures will be made with minimal means and will have minimal impact on the land. One structure will be for sleeping (night) and one for living (day). Anchoring both ends of the site, this modest building will gain strength by engaging the larger environment.