Baulinder Haus is located just a few houses down
from a landmark Kansas City area home designed
by Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer. Baulinder Haus
draws inspiration from the details of the neighboring
home. Vertically oriented wood siding, simple forms,
and overhanging masses—these were part of Breuer’s
modernist palette. The house’s form consists of a
series of stacked boxes, with public spaces on the
ground level and private spaces in the boxes above.
The boxes are oriented in a U-shaped plan to create
a generous private courtyard. This was designed as
an extension of the interior living space, blurring the
boundaries between indoors and outdoors.

Floor-to-ceiling south facing windows in the courtyard
are shaded by the overhanging second floor above
to prohibit solar heat gain, but allow for passive solar
heating in the winter. Other sustainable elements
of the home include a geothermal heat pump HVAC
system, energy efficient windows and sprayed foam
insulation. The exterior wood is a vertical shiplap
siding milled from FSC certified Machiche.