Mall of America house - Bloomington, Minnesota 

photo by Don Wong - Minneapolis, Minnesota

This house is an essay on the vernacular, unstyled, American home.  In this case two, proportionally sized saltbox shapes are abstractly merged at a corner.  And this overlap provides a sculpturally logical main entry door. 

The "Mall of America House" was/is a house commissioned by the now defunct, "Budget Living Magazine".  It's nominal purpose was to raise funds for a breast cancer awareness campaign, sponsored by the Lauder Foundation.  The house was set up in an atrium of the mall, and visitors were encouraged to make a donation towards a raffle to win the house. 

The house was fabricated as modular units by a nearby fabricator in order to allow its installation in a 14-day window of the mall calendar, and the subsequent movement to the new owner's property.   

The exact location and state of this house is unknown.