Rick Sommerfeld (the3rdspace) and Rob Pyatt are no newbies when it comes to turning a humble abode from the mid 20th century into a 21st century work of art. Their latest project Pinon House, is yet another tribute to fine form in modern architecture. The design duo gave an unassuming Boulder, Colorado habitat a major overhaul via some serious remodeling and add-ons. The result shows off their knack for turning the seemingly simple into an appealing wonderland of geometry and practical living space.

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While it’s more than likely that if you’re living in a city, your place of residence closely resembles a shoebox, it seems hardly likely that if living in the sprawling countryside one would want one’s abode to be representative of any sort of container…that is, until now. The University of Colorado Boulder sure can churn out some cool looking Architecture projects — from the same institution that brought you Trailerwrap comes this project from Rob Pyatt, who received a special recognition award for architecture for this research+design+build project in association with the University of Colorado Boulder from the YAAG back in 2006. “They’re boxy but they’re good” might’ve been a slogan for Volvo in the 1990 Dudley Moore film Crazy People, but it more than applies here to Pyatt’s remodeling of this 900 square foot home built in 1948 which he remodeled in order to “explore the adaptive reuse and recycling of existing housing stock in Boulder, Colorado”.

–Evan Kessler