Three-dimensional shapes are cut out from areas of this artist residence in Upstate New York by Steven Holl Architects, which claims the house can sleep five guests despite having "zero bedrooms".
The geometry of the 918-square-foot property comprises a series of spheres that intersect the main trapezoid volumes.

These carved-out wooden shapes form a dramatic entrance hall and a large feature window on one corner of the upper floor.
Named Ex of In House, the project was created as a manifestation of Steven Holl Architects' research and development work titled Explorations of "IN".

"The house serves as an alternative to modernist suburban houses that 'sprawl in the landscape'," said the firm. "Instead, the Ex of In is a house of compression and inner voids."
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Holl frequently sculpts geometric voids ? known as boolean voids ? into his buildings, creating unusual facades and internal spaces across more simple base structures. He has used the technique in designs for a new wing for Mumbai City Museum and a pair of institutions in Tianjin.

The New York residence sits on 28 acres (11.3 hectares) of forested land in Rhinebeck, which was slated for five plots but has been joined to preserve the rural landscape as much as possible.
On entering the building, the first "orb of wood carved out of the house...