CS2 House

NEMESTUDIO slips a circular living ring beneath a slanted roof to test how loosely a home can define “rooms.”

A white wedge rises from a typical suburban lot, its single shed roof tilting toward the sky like a sail caught mid-tack. Beneath that line, the base reads more like a cylinder than a box—painted stucco all the way around, punctuated by square windows that glow gold at dusk. NEMESTUDIO treats the roof and the circle as two autonomous figures clipped together, so the house feels at once straightforward and slightly uncanny. You enter on axis, step across poured-concrete pavers, and find yourself inside a 900-square-foot ring where walls never quite meet at right angles.

That ground-floor loop is the project’s engine. Kitchen, bath, and storage hug the outer edge, leaving a sweep of double-height floor that morphs by the hour: co-working table at nine, lego fort at noon, book-club seminar after dinner. A mint-green partition slips behind a straight-run stair; its pastel plane catches late light and announces the first real corner in the plan. Ascend those oak treads and the geometry flips—two rectilinear bedrooms and a shared bath nest inside the roof volume, looking down through the void to whatever scene the ring is staging below. A perforated steel guard filters views between levels, doubling as a projection screen for the shifting shadows of houseplants gathered near the south window.

Budget, rather than limiting expression, sets the palette. Standard framing, off-the-shelf windows, and unpolished concrete floors keep costs low while highlighting the spatial experiment. Where the upper roof overhangs the circle, it forms deep eaves that temper summer sun and carve sheltered porches into the gravel yard. Misalignments between cylinder and rectangle yield a slim balcony off one bedroom and a pocket terrace outside the kitchen—outdoor rooms generated almost incidentally by the house’s diagram. CS2 proves that a single roof and one continuous floor can script multiple stories of daily life, each version legible from the street yet always open to revision inside.