Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
In Totem House: Histories of Negation, the components of the house are presented as a grouping of totems, each one citing significant events in 50-year blocks of time related to the settlement of Indigenous nations and African Americans in Arkansas and the US.
To build their structure, studioSUMO created four components, or totems, that act as individual objects and in combination, define the entry, living, kitchen, dining, bath, bed, stair, storage, and terrace areas.
From a distance, the totems appear to outline a home whose form disintegrates the closer it is viewed. This is a deliberate effect, and reveals the complexities between the land and the people who once dwelled on it.
In Totem House: Histories of Negation, the components of the house are presented as a grouping of totems, each one citing significant events in 50-year blocks of time related to the settlement of Indigenous nations and African Americans in Arkansas and the US.
To build their structure, studioSUMO created four components, or totems, that act as individual objects and in combination, define the entry, living, kitchen, dining, bath, bed, stair, storage, and terrace areas.
From a distance, the totems appear to outline a home whose form disintegrates the closer it is viewed. This is a deliberate effect, and reveals the complexities between the land and the people who once dwelled on it.
