The Interlink House

Architecture

Residential, URBAN DESIGN

Architect

Ben Rosenblum Studio

Project Team

Ben Rosenblum with HuSSEIN aL hAMADANI, ariyan fouladvand

DESIGN YEAR 2023

The Interlink House is an affordable one-story house that curves in both plan and section, allowing it to interlink with the next house, creating a continuous linked curved form with a series of multi-family houses in a row, or it could be a single-family house. Interlinking the houses, the design creates interior and exterior spaces with varying levels of privacy, while encouraging interactions within a vibrant and socially sustainable community. The Interlink House is designed to be located on a hillside in the Hill Country near Austin, Texas, but the design has flexibility to adapt to flatter or steeper terrain. The houses are placed with the living room window facing south, and are printed to include not only the exterior house walls, but also a courtyard wall to the north of the kitchen entrance, forming the boundaries of each house’s front yard. The front courtyard wall follows the same curve as the north house wall, offset 14 feet, serving as both a retaining wall for the hillside, and as the balcony wall for the next row of houses on the hillside. Each front yard is 9 feet deep, with a 5-foot wide path that allows people in the community to access their houses from potential nearby centralized parking, and allows neighbors to visit other houses. The design could adapt to add paths moving up the hillside to form blocks of houses and provide access between rows. The rear house patio depth is flexible, depending on how far apart the rows of houses are built, and is shown as 6’ in our presentation.

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