Hillside House, a black metal-clad modernist home designed and owned by architect Doug Pierson, AIA, and his wife, designer Youn Choi of pod architecture + design, won a prestigious Jury Award during the 2022 George Matsumoto Prize competition.
Leland Little Auctions in Hillsborough hosted this year's awards ceremony on Thursday, July 28. The Matsumoto Prize was created in 2012 by non-profit NC Modernist to honor architect George Matsumoto, FAIA, one of the founding faculty members of North Carolina State University's College of Design. The Matsumoto Prize is North Carolina's highest honor exclusively for modernist residential architecture throughout the state.
According to NC Modernist's founder and director George Smart, the jurors appreciated the symbiosis between the architecture and the land. Yet they were most impressed by Pierson's and Choi's design decisions that, as parents, they knew would enhance daily life for their young-adult child with autism. According to the couple's award submission, "an ideal floorplan developed within the long, narrow form...[that] offers visible connectivity across the length and height of the house to facilitate communication. It also provides retreat spaces for privacy."
Located on a wooded lot in an established neighborhood near downtown Carrboro, Hillside House is a long, slender, three-level home that directly responds to the natural terrain in form and plan. Its black metal exterior and cantilevered corner decrease its impact on the landscape and natural hydrology.
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