giffen clark ott: my name isgiffen clark ott, and i'm an architecture student atcornell university. we're in ithaca at the simonungers cube house. simon ungers was a germanarchitect who was the son of oswald mathias ungers. i think this house is definitelymeant for winter when it's surrounded bya blanket of snow. it's extremely evil, whichknowing the state of ungers' life in which he was in, itmakes a lot of sense that he
built himself a isolationistconcrete box in the middle of nowhere. i like it a lot. but that being said, it'slike he's clearly not a functionalist. a cinder block house,upstate new york, doesn't make much sense. as far as just how thingsfreeze and thaw and crack and leak.
but in the winter, it's dismaland it's beautiful. we're right now in what usedto be the garage space. when i first moved in, no onehad closed this window for a month and a half and ithad been raining. these stairs are definitelynot legal. this is simon ungers'signature staircase. meaning that this is the samestaircase that he has in his winery a few miles away. this is our kitchen space.
yeah, i think that everything'spretty rigid. and i kind of like therigidity of it. i'm not a very curvy person andi like things when they're pretty well spaced. so i think that this sortof makes sense for me. opposite the kitchen is rachel'sbedroom slash the other living spacein the house. this is hers. so when simon designed thehouse, he designed it as if it
was a new york citystudio apartment. i think this space just showsme that i still don't need this much room. it's like 800 square feet,and there's two of us, and it's huge. then this is thebedroom space. it sort of used tobe an office. this is where i sleep. there are books and things.
a bed frame that wascheaply made. storage. i think built-ins save alot of space and they make a lot of sense. and you can kind of force whatyou want with the inhabitant. which is why a lot of smallspaces actually use them. yeah, i think this spaceis plenty flexible. this is actually a very greatsize bedroom, in my opinion. this is the bathroom.
it's kind of standard. fiberglass tub, sink coveredin toothpaste. i'm surrounded by 150 acres. this is probably the best partof the house when it's not with the dead deer skin on it. out here, you can kindof see what was allegedly once a runway. where there's a sort of a subtledepression and line that can be followed outthroughout the 150 acres.
it treats the landscape as sortof the whole tabula rasa thing where it's a bareobject in a field. and then the inside isas much a field as the outside, i think. erika storm wasser: lovehome and design? make sure to subscribe tospacestv on youtube.