Drawings

About
Narrative Home III is based on a critical scene from the 1980 novel Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee. The novel centers around a small colonial town that exists on the territorial frontier of “the empire.” The barbarians are a metaphor for the unknown other who live beyond the confines of the town. 

The design of the home mimics the walled in metaphor of the town, from the exterior the home reads as a monumental solid. The interior is surprisingly different with all rooms containing large windows that face an open shared courtyard. The square rooms are all exactly the same size, but each offer their own complex three-dimensional interior experience.

Team
Matthew Celmer, Lead Architect & Design
Jesse Valgora, Research Intern

Project Honors
Selected for the International Artists-In-Residence program at the I-Park Foundation

Published in [TRANS-] a non-profit academic journal at the College of Architecture, The University of Arizona

Selected for the Domestic Design panel at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 108th Annual Meeting