ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/512468/topo-house-johnsen-schmaling-architects Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Karen Valenzuela https://www.archdaily.com/512468/topo-house-johnsen-schmaling-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.

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