Dogtrot House is a current day reinterpretation of a timeless house type that can be found throughout warmer regions of the United States. A large open-air breezeway runs perpendicularly through the oblong home, separating living and bedroom spaces into two distinct volumes unified by a single roof. The result is a home designed for cross-ventilation and respite from intense sunlight for comfortable indoor-outdoor living.

The design of the home takes advantage of 3D printing technology’s unique ability to create curved walls just as efficiently as straight walls, allowing for unique feature spaces to be sculpted without added complexity. The result is a design where the living and bedroom volumes are made up of sculptural niches that thoughtfully shape rooms, closets and exterior openings. The rounded living and bedroom volumes are unified under a broad pyramidal roof that serves as their angular counterpoint and culminates in a vaulted skylight at the breezeway.

The home has been designed as a housing product for ICON, a construction technology company at the forefront of 3D printed home construction. The design is the result of a challenge posed to create high quality housing products at an accessible cost by leveraging great architectural design and innovative construction methods.