The Sculptured House

Sculptured House

Charles Deaton

1963-2000

Genesee Mountain, Colorado

I was originally going to go with the Jumeriah Beach Hotel in Dubai, but I saw the Sculptured House while searching and immediately had to do this one instead.

The house is shaped like a clamshell and was originally a sculpture. The Architect Charles Deaton knew that the sculpture would eventually be built into a house, but did not design the house with a specific floorplan in mind. There was not even a scale until the house was completed. Charles Deaton died in 1996 and never saw the interior of the building finished. His daugher Charlee, an interior designer and architect, saw over the finalities in 2000. The clamshell part of the house was originally 250 sq. ft, but when Praxis Design and Charlee Deaton took over, the house was doubled to 500 sq. ft. The house is so off of what normal houses look like and that is why it interests me. Patrick once asked what made a building a piece of art or architecture, and I feel this house embodies both. It is a work of art, that someone can live in.