ARCHITECTURE | HONOR 

Entry Name: Heavy Metal
Firm: Hufft Projects
Project Location: Joplin, MO
Owner: Withheld
Photographer: Hufft Projects

Aptly named, Heavy Metal, is a steel clad private residence that sits on 8 acres of heavily wooded terrain. As an owner of a steel manufacturing facility the client wished to have his home reflect both his family business and his personal artistic background. This became a critical component for the layout of the home. His desire was to have a gallery-like space that he could easily move through with strong connections to nature, from home, to office, to studio informed the design and inspired the collaboration between the owner and the architect. The home is a contemporary take on a Miesian courtyard house that commands its context with a layered skin of glass and perforated steel providing strategic views for the celebrated beauty of its natural setting. Heavy Metal translates this typology into a more rural landscape. Courtyards still exist, but in this instance they are created by the residence in concert with landscaping and vegetation.