Testing the limits of a "big house"
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2019

Since we began work on the future of “community development” in America back in 2016, we’ve been wanting to explore this crazy housing type called the big house. The big house is a flexible type that looks like a gigantic single family home or country villa but actually holds several units, each with their own entrance. This covert “McMansion” is fascinating as a reflection of our cultural values, identity, and the pressures of 21st capitalism; and we wanted to understand its limits. This 2019 animation sketch imagines plans of Palladio’s urban villas translated into the big house until it breaks.