This addition consists of a new 2-car garage, family room, bathroom, and master bedroom suite. Striking views of the Little Miami River Valley conflict with the western solar orientation of this suburban Cincinnati site. We proposed vertical cedar fins to negotiate the view and the sun. These fins were absorbed from their role in solar performance into the structural plane of the faced. An intentionally ambiguous system: sometimes a fin is structural, sometimes for shading, sometimes a rain-screen, sometimes all or neither. Altogether the wood fins are subsumed into a rhythmic cladding which seeks to agitate perceptions of function and decoration.
