Mural House is a single-family residence designed by Birdseye Design located in an urban infill lot in a notable college section of Burlington, Vermont.

Description
The house is located on a corner lot with a sloping landscape backed by 100? tall pine trees to the east and distant lake and mountain views to the west. The urban context is composed of a mixture of university buildings and single-family homes.
The clients desired a contemporary aesthetic following the ideology of Ezra Pound?s simple but elegantly stated principal, ?Make it New.? Conceptually the design reflects the ideology. By recognizing the ?it? as the vernacular, the engagement of contemporary orthogonal forms floating above and congruent with the slope redefine the conventional interaction of the two, thus establishing a new relationship within a defined context. The structure is composed of two opposing cantilevered forms cascading downhill within the sloping landscape. The black-stained cedar forms are visually separated with a glass transom to accentuate the division between the upper and lower forms. The large-scale western window openings create a visual connection to the streetscape while the landscape walls and courtyard space provide a privacy from the closeness of the neighboring homes, public sidewalk and the road intersection at the corner lot.
Inside, the residence is designed for living with art. The main entry opens into a transom-lit gallery space with large-scale painting...