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Before Ply Architecture won last year's House: Case Study Cleveland Competition, the Ann Arbor-based firm designed this house in their Michigan hometown. While the former looks at the American single-family house via ideas of flexibility and prefabricated construction, the latter provides solutions to a particular family-of-four's needs and desires. Each finds their home in the Midwestern landscape, though the house in Michigan musts also respond to the Japanese and American cultures of the client's family, adding a unique twist to the suburban house.

Midwest Rural House.Ann Arbor, Michigan