Artist-created home on display at Cranbrook

There are MODErn homes that turn people's heads and then there are the ones that make them stop and stare. The William Massie: An American House 08 on display at Cranbrook is one of the latter.

The home is the first in a series of ten prefabricated houses designed and constructed by William E. Massie — the award-winning Architect-in-Residence and head of the Architecture Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Yes, it's a ranch home like so many others in Michigan but that's where the similarities between it and the norm pretty much end. Massie used computer-based fabrication technology to create a home that is drastically different from traditional architecture.

It was built entirely within the architect's 12,000 square-foot studio and designed, in part, at full scale. The house is composed of a prefabricated steel frame, in-filled with manufactured structural panels all filtered through a process of digital fabrication.

Those are big words in the architecture world that are creating big eyes by the people who see it. The home will be open to tours on the weekend until Oct. 31. For information, send an email to artmuseum@cranbrook.edu or call (248) 645-3323.

Source: Cranbrook Art Museum
Writer: Jon Zemke

Artist-created home on display at Cranbrook

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