American studio WOJR has designed a black house with a roof shaped like half-pipes at a skate park, for a site in Silicon Valley originally earmarked for a Spanish-style residence.
The House of Horns is envisioned for a hillside property in the city of Los Altos, and would be built atop the existing foundations of a Mission-style home that was planned for the property.

"The design enfolds an existing foundation that was intended to be the foundation for an elaborate 'Spanish style' home," said WOJR, a studio based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"Our intention is to aim to undermine the faux formalities of the previous version of the design (designed by another architect) in favour of a new form of coherence that synthesises the particularities of the foundation with a new set of ordering principles."
Wrapped in dark cladding and vast stretches of glass, the two-storey dwelling would encompass 8,500 square feet (790 square metres). While its plan is rectilinear, its form is highly sculptural.
Highly realistic renderings show a dramatic roof that dips and swoops upward ? like ramps in a skate park ? forming a series of protrusions that serve as apertures. Oriented in varying directions, the apertures capture and usher in natural light at different times of the day.

"House of Horns acts as an instrument to register the cycles of the day through six 'horns' or differently oriented skylights and clerestories," the studio described.
Four of the prot...