Located at the heart of St. Roch, POP! House is reflection of its multi-faceted owners. POP! House is an acknowledgment of their earliest meditations on the city: colorful, celebratory, ephemeral, collective. It is also a reflection of their desire to build something that is simultaneously contemporary and contextual to the neighborhood.

The home is organized on two wings: the east wing includes 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms; the west wing includes: a double-height living room, a Julia Child-esque pegboard kitchen, and a costuming room at the mezzanine.

The residence is a play on the 4 color paint patterns of many New Orleans homes. It deploys 4 colors but alternates them between masses, battens, and counter-battens to break down the building scale and create new façade compositions, detached from the traditional articulation of openings. The façade composition and color appears to shift as one moves around the home as the battens and counter battens become more-pronounced when viewed at an angle. The polychromatic composition is a reflection of its owners. It is a never truly definable.

Viewed at an angle the counter-battens fragment the scale of the building masses into a new fragmented composition. The counter battens are 12’ length hardi-battens mounted perpendicular to the primary batten. These battens are not cut, are painted on both sides and arranged to follow either the roof line or the line of the sill plate. As they merge, they begin to create new color combinations both through their adjacency and through their interaction with light. A glass connector links the sleeping quarters to the primary fun house.

The home’s interior allows for color to compartmentalize uses in an otherwise open plan. The red costume room, the red stair, the yellow stair, the yellow ceiling, the green kitchen, the green office, the black bedroom, and so on. These uses become a mix of objects and planes within the home creating spaces that are light, bright, and playful.