Standing on telephone pole stilts to lift the building out of a wet landscape, the house touches the ground at specific points using a tire structure; the tires penetrating the interior of the building creating a winding staircase that wraps around the family room. The entryway, signified by a “big roof” is a modified dogtrot form, with the children’s rooms and family room on one side and the kitchen, utility room, and mother’s room on the other side of the dogtrot. The exterior is clad in oak shingles cut from wooden shipping palettes.
