Big Truss Country is an adaptive, vertical factory that combines start-up rapid prototyping, live-work facilities, and a large-scale production factory within the historic Story Mill site in Bozeman, Montana.

21st-century living and working requires our spaces to be adaptable to both our needs and the environment. Big Truss Country provides space for human use and autonomous machine use to expedite and connect the vertical factory. Just as the factory space is adaptable to the needs of production, the exterior spaces provided by trusses allow for an adaptable floor plan between two seasonal conditions: large shared sun-bathed planes that raise the plains of Montana vertically and provide ample space for recreation in the summer, and smaller, interconnected winter gardens which add a thermal barrier to the interior of the building in the winter.

Critics
Frank Barkow, Regine Leibinger, Pablo Sequero

Year
2021