The goal of the Inside-Out House is to expand the schematics catalog of the Single-family Luxury Residential Building Type by contributing a simple prototype through a re-thinking and re-working of the coming-about of the interior courtyard design feature, within the tradition of detached, object-in-the-round country houses, or estate-set mansions.

It does this by generating the interior courtyard not as the result of a typical subtractive process but through a simple transformation of the most basic of residential archetypes, the pyramid-roofed box.



The result of this fragmentation and re-ordering is, beyond the prompt appearance of the interior courtyard (void), the coming-to-be of four distinct, triangular pavilions (solid(s)).



Through these translatory actions, also, the original walls of our box become the walls of the interior courtyard - providing it added privacy - while the interior, vertical planes along which we cut our archetypal device (the pyramid-roofed box) are now facing the outside.  



These 'soft' planes will materialize into glass for total views of the surrounding landscape, while at the same time depicting to the outside the particular interior architecture of each room and its use. 



Thus, house-turned-inside-out, or, "Inside-Out House".



These pavilions, which may differ in number of floors, will, again, be occupied by the residence's main domestic program (living, dining, kitchen, den, bedrooms, etc.). This lends hierarchy to this program, as well as to outside and support program such as the interior courtyard and the hallways, given that each of these programmatic groups is given distinct treatment.



However, the equalization of the spaces designated to each of the main domestic program, at the same time, emphasizes use itself as well as interior distribution as providers of identity over relative shape and/or size of enclosure. 



This allows function over form to provide identity to each environment, while at the same time allowing for the equivalent experiencing of the practically equal views and shapes of the rooms to provide, via equiparation and uniformization, a stronger overall identity of this house over others, signifying perhaps a novel and stronger take on the concept of 'home' for its users.