Matthew Brandon Mejia | Ryan Tyler Martinez
The contemporary house operates as an idealized exterior image, appearing stable, symmetrical, and culturally coded as a site of domestic harmony. Yet interior life is fragmented. Multiple interior worlds coexist within a single structure, shaped by different occupants, relationships, and emotional conditions.
This thesis reexamines the archetypal one-story gabled house as a collection of conflicting interior realities rather than a unified domestic space. Each inhabitant produces their own spatial logic, resulting in disjunction, misalignment, and tension within the house.
As these interior worlds intensify, they begin to register externally. The architecture allows the interior to bleed into the exterior, transforming the envelope and roof. The house becomes a visible record of its occupants, revealing the differences and conflicts that domestic architecture typically conceals.
