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The Billboard House by David Salle with AA Studio
The project marks artist David Salle’s first foray into architecture, and incidentally, he’s his own first client. In collaboration with Brooklyn-based AA Studio, he developed a modular design for himself suited to Marfa, Texas, the desert capital of the art world. It largely comprises glass walls, save the ones that will feature his artwork, and a Northern-tilted roof to maximize solar panel exposure.
Transforming shipping containers into habitable spaces is a growingly popular subset of prefab. Just off the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, Martha Moseley and Bill Mathesius adapted an unused concrete foundation to create a home made from 11 stacked shipping containers. "We were inspired by the site, and our desire to have something cool and different," says Moseley.