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African Butterfly House — Belleville

The African Butterfly House is a speculative residential project that explores contemporary domestic architecture through biomorphic form, aerospace logic, and controlled concealment. Conceived as a camouflaged object within a suburban cul-de-sac, the house remains visually restrained from the street while revealing itself as a sculptural, highly expressive form within the backyard landscape. Its segmented massing and aerodynamic geometry draw inspiration from spacecraft engineering and high-performance automotive design, translating speed, precision, and efficiency into inhabitable architecture. Material contrasts between a rugged exterior shell and a warm, luminous interior create the sensation of a protective cocoon. The project experiments with architecture as discovery, an intentional, hidden presence that balances nature, technology, and domestic life.

  • Location: Belleville, Ontario, Canada

  • Project type: Speculative residential architecture

  • Site context: Suburban cul-de-sac / rear-yard condition

  • Role: Architectural designer; concept and formal development

  • Scope: Site strategy, massing studies, architectural concept design, exterior and interior spatial experimentation

  • Status: Unbuilt (design research / speculative project) - Prototype for future custom design option, elsewhere. 

  • Key themes: Camouflaged architecture, biomorphic form, aerospace and automotive influence, experiential domestic space

  • Why it mattered: The project investigates how contemporary houses can operate as both discreet urban interventions and highly expressive architectural objects, challenging conventional suburban form while remaining contextually sensitive.

St. Mary,

Jamaica, W.I.

 

Scarborough,

Ontario, CA

658-219-5131

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