Designed by architect Robert Harvey Oshatz. Located in Portland, Oregon, USA, designed 1982, completed 1984.
'The plan of this house is based on a cross axial plan with the major axis centering on a mountain view and the minor axis being the source of natural lighting to the interior of the structure. One enters by a bridge springing from the hillside to the house proper, which hovers in counterpoint to the vertical shaft of fir trees, which abound on the site. The vertical and horizontal elements of the design each capture the other in an interlocking of forces at the main living areas contained in four levels. The large flow of the main design components is modulated into ever-finer texture and detail from the massive forms to the detail of wrought iron screens at the windows.' - Robert Harvey Oshatz
'An architect is an artist, creator, logician of evolving aesthetic structures; a designer of not only the visual, but the internal space.
I see architecture as a synthesis of logic and emotion, exploring and fulfilling dreams, fantasies, and realities.' - Oshatz
SEE ALSO_Oshatz's Residence for an Arabian Prince
Lake Oswego, Oregon
Designed: 1980
(below left)
'The client's psychological sense of space established the geometry for this 12,000 square foot residence. The client had a sense of confinement with most interior spaces having walls and roof overhangs providing an enclosed feeling. Thus the structure was designed with walls and glass sloping outward. This increased the feeling of spaciousness and volume to the interior. The roof sloped upward like butterfly wings to free the sight lines from the horizontal, yet still give the walls or glass protection from the elements. The client's requirement of an indoor/outdoor swimming pool resulted in an enclosed barrel vault in three sections sliding open on a track. The structure became a synthesis of the semicircular vaults with the outward sloping walls. These geometric interrelationships resulted in a design whose forms is an outgrowth of the psychological (functional) needs of the client.'
Lake Oswego, Oregon
Designed: 1980
(below left)
'The client's psychological sense of space established the geometry for this 12,000 square foot residence. The client had a sense of confinement with most interior spaces having walls and roof overhangs providing an enclosed feeling. Thus the structure was designed with walls and glass sloping outward. This increased the feeling of spaciousness and volume to the interior. The roof sloped upward like butterfly wings to free the sight lines from the horizontal, yet still give the walls or glass protection from the elements. The client's requirement of an indoor/outdoor swimming pool resulted in an enclosed barrel vault in three sections sliding open on a track. The structure became a synthesis of the semicircular vaults with the outward sloping walls. These geometric interrelationships resulted in a design whose forms is an outgrowth of the psychological (functional) needs of the client.'
+ The Great Horned Owl (below)
Designed: 1975-8
In this house, named because of its eave projections reminiscent of a Great Horned Owl, the rectangular vertical shaft in its rhythmic flow upward makes a transition from a stem to a multi-colored (not shown in model) flowering blossom.
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