MIES HOUSE

Residential Interior Renovation
Custom Furniture and Millwork Design
Lafayette Park, Detroit
Size: 1,200 SF

Mies House is the interior renovation of an existing Mies van der Rohe courtyard townhouse for an artist and an engineer couple in Lafayette Park, Detroit.

Mies House incorporates CNC-machined plywood, transparent neon acrylics, and stainless steel surfaces. These playful, textural elements expand the existing material archive to reflect the owners’ desires for texture, color and reflectivity in their home. The patterned and reflective material surfaces reframe and reflect the existing space akin to the articulation of stone in Mies' Barcelona Pavilion.

The project investigates how spaces can be made more flexible through multifunctionality, movement, and unfolding. Furniture pieces that house books and plants move around on wheels, light and reflections expand space, and the home is seen not as a series of programmatic-specific rooms — but as a series of spaces where furniture defines the mode of interaction. Considering the scale of the plant, the human and building and how they interact with each other — the project feels familiar yet surreal, perched between the past and future.

Mies House re-imagines the existing courtyard townhouse as the owner’s expanded collection of art, architecture, plants, millwork and furniture — and imbues the house with objects under one roof — assemblies in dialogue with one another, inspired by how the owners live and wish to.

MIES HOUSE

Residential Interior Renovation Custom Furniture and Millwork Design Lafayette Park, Detroit Size: 1,200 SF

Project Team: 1+1+ Architects

Residential Interior Renovation
Custom Furniture and Millwork Design
Lafayette Park, Detroit
Size: 1,200 SF

Project Team:
1+1+ Architects