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Architects: Duvall Decker
- Area: 3750 ft²
- Year: 2012
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Photographs:Timothy Hursley
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Lead Architects: Anne Marie Decker, FAIA; Roy Decker, FAIA
Text description provided by the architects. The owner requested a house to foster a certain way of living; to meet individual needs while encouraging the family to be together, to take advantage of Mississippi’s wonderful environment, to interact with friends and family, to have a private respite, to work at home, to be healthy, and to be energy efficient. The Oak Ridge House is a modern, sustainable, southern house, alive with character. The design amplifies the effective conditions of its context. It takes advantage of the lay of the land and the movement of the sun and contributes to the formal rhythm and spatial condition of the street. The design challenges the rote conditions of its context. It adds diversity to this traditional inner city neighborhood and challenges the inward, and the private idea of home to foster growth and inquiry in experience.
