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PARA’s Haffenden House in Syracuse, United States, transforms suburban architecture into a writing retreat, using sectional shifts, translucent skins, and reflective surfaces to shape an introspective yet luminous environment. In Syracuse’s suburban landscape, PARA’s Haffenden House reimagines domestic architecture as a space of intellectual withdrawal. Conceived as a writing studio, its spatial logic prioritizes isolation while strategically engaging with light. The house unfolds vertically: a garage-breezeway at ground level, a library and writing space on the second, and a reading room perched above. Wrapped in translucent silicon-impregnated fabric, the exterior resists the familiar image of a suburban home, instead offering an ethereal, boundary-blurring retreat. thisispaper.com
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