organic cottage

This cottage had a central plan – a strong feeling for centrality through living halls, circulation around a core, and tension between centrifugal and centripetal forces. Common design characteristics were a tall center, in that the central plan was expressed through vertical thrust; asymmetrical massing; patterned textures on exterior surfaces; projecting gables and bays; interconnected interior and exterior spaces; and either a steep roof on the centripetal types or a low, close-to-the-ground roof in centrifugal types. (Gottfried & Jennings, 1985)