Allandale House by William O’Brien Jr

Young architect William O’Brien Jr designed the Allandale House, a cabin project based on an extruded A-frame with an interesting wall configuration.


The house aims to undermine the seeming limitations of a triangular section. It is done with the increase to extreme proportion in the vertical direction and the use of the acute corners meeting the floor as thickening of the walls, telescopic apertures and built-in storage.

The Allandale House provides space for an eccentric collection of artifacts: wines, rare books, stuffed birds and an elk mount are displayed in this small vacation house.

The house links three horizontal extrusions of asymmetrical A-frames: the western side contains the library, wine cellar and garage. In the centre lay two floors of bedrooms and bathrooms. On the Eastern side, a medium A-frame holds the living, kitchen and dining areas.

A range of possible configurations were tested, regarding the orientation of adjacent tube segments, the severity of rotation between segments, the sequence of the three different bay-widths, and the location of the apex of the triangle relative to its base.

[William O’Brien Jr]
via [archdaily]