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Project Status: Built<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Year: 2021<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Size: 0 sqft – 1000 sqft<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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South 2nd\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2013 This 2-story addition stands among a single-story sea of 1960\u2019s suburban South Austin homes. With its roof top light monitor striking a figurative silhouette the addition peers out over the privacy fence and across the neighbourhood. The old house and new addition are unlikely companions, their connection a glancing kiss at the fireplace. Inside the continuous light monitor brings diffused natural light into the 2nd floor bedroom and bathroom changing throughout the day.<\/p>\n

Architizer chatted with Murray Legge, FAIA Principal at Murray Legge Architecture<\/a>, to learn more about this project.<\/p>\n

Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Murray Legge: We worked in a very collaborative way with our clients, a veterinarian and librarian with a growing family. The concept grew out of that conversation. The owners asked for a new home office and utility room on the ground floor and new principal bedroom suite on the 2nd floor. To conserve space on the site we kept the footprint really compact and proposed a tall 2-story addition that contrasts in massing to the single-story existing house. We offered a couple of different approaches including a steep gable roof scheme with an inhabited 2nd floor roof and the final design concept which is the flat roof scheme with a rooftop light monitor. In the end the owners preferred the figurative flat roof version with the light monitor.<\/p>\n