Mountain Home Air Force Base Housing Project
Mountain Home Air Force Base Housing Project
Richard Neutra’s clever innovations employed in the Mountain Home Air Force Base Housing Project anticipate his creative approach to his later speculative housing project in Bewobau, Germany. For this Idaho commission, more modest designs for 500 units offered a range of options from multiplexes to free-standing houses. The multiplexes themselves contained multiple unit designs, including a larger, end unit with flexible living spaces; here, living rooms could be transformed into private studies through sliding doors. Exterior and interior spaces were differentiated by reorienting the direction of the wood siding.
Adapted from Neutra – Complete Works by Barbara Lamprecht (Taschen, 2000), p. 280.
Project Detail
Year Built
1954–55
Project Architect
Neutra u0026 Alexander with Hummel, Hummel u0026 Jones
Client
Air Force
Location
Mountain Home, ID