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Architects: Johnsen Schmaling Architects
- Area: 2940 ft²
- Year: 2013
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Photographs:John J. Macaulay
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Manufacturers: Bain Ultra
Text description provided by the architects. The Topo House sits in the unglaciated landscape of Wisconsin’s “Driftless Region,” an area with softly rolling hills and tight ravines. Based on early conceptual studies interpreting the site’s distinct topography as a series of folded parallel planes, the house forms a low-slung, partially submerged building volume with a meticulously detailed copper roof plane that slowly peels itself up from the ground and extends the adjacent fields as a green carpet over the lower portion of the house.
