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Outdoor terrace (foreground).
Main living/dining/kitchen space.
The concrete wall segments that extend into the landscape precedents. For instance, the juxtaposition of heavy, straight wall
are not just aesthetic whims, but serve a practical purpose. The segments and light, glassy perimeter walls recalls Ludwig Mies
house sits atop a windy ridge, and the pairs of walls create a van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion of 1929. Moreover, supporting
variety of sheltered spaces—both covered and open—allowing the roofs of the living/dining pavilion and the covered terrace
guests to enjoy the outdoors no matter which way the wind are cruciform-shaped columns much like those that Mies used
is blowing. The enclosed but fully glazed upper level, which in the Barcelona Pavilion and his Tugendhat House in Brno,
consists of one large space (except for a lavatory and storage) Czechia, completed in 1930.
with 360-degree views, can be used for gatherings when it is Although conceived as a residential project, the Liminal
simply too hot, cold, or wet to use the ground floor terraces. House was designed with some flexibility in mind, and could
While the design of the Liminal House draws heavily be converted to general hospitality use, an office, or a gallery in
from the compositional motifs of the principal residence on the the future.
same property, it also harks back to certain early Modernist

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