Marjetica Potrč
Rural Studio: The Lucy House Tornado Shelter, 2007
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Rural Studio: The Lucy House Tornado Shelter

The Lucy House, designed by architect Samuel Mockbee and his students in the Rural Studio Outreach Program and constructed in 2002, combines residential architecture with emergency architecture. Home to Anderson and Lucy Harris and their three children, the house includes a built-in tornado shelter, on top of which a bedroom sits inside the "crumpled" tensegrity dome. This tornado shelter is also used by the Harrises as a meditation room and family/TV room.

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Marjetica Potrč

Marjetica Potrč (b. 1953) is an artist and architect based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Potrč's interdisciplinary practice includes on-site projects, research, architectural case studies, and series of drawings. Her work documents and interprets contemporary architectural practices (in particular, with regard to energy infrastructure and water use) and the ways people live together.

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