A pair of homes connected by a sunny book-lined path, the Passageway House promotes connection and learning between four unalike people who have lost their homes. As they strive to find better lives for themeselves, the House provides the tools necessary to build themselves up: knowledge through books, and companionship through beautiful common spaces. Derived from the long, narrow site, the parti of the house is a linear path that connects both houses. On the interior, the path is lined by a ceiling-to floor, wall-length bookshelf, and is illuminated by a long skylight on the sloped end of the roof. As the rooms of the house open out to this space, the focus of the house turns to community and education. The home is designed to be assembled from pre-fabricated compnents, so that it can be easily built and duplicated.
