Area: 4,075 gsf
The bean house is an alteration to an existing house built in the 1970’s. The organization of the existing house was developed around the kidney shaped swimming pool reflecting the active lifestyle and status of the young family that built it. The house was passed on to the son who wanted to reoccupy the house long after original structure and finishes had been compromised by years of vacancy and neglect.
Our aim was to instill coherence to the design that must have seemed fresh, new and different to the family that lived there. The organization of the program remained for the most part the same. The alteration was designed around the pool, albeit with modification to the kidney form to allow for plantings and to reflect the son’s coffee bean brokerage company. The copper clad fascia that runs in a line from the entry court to the pool yard is used to stitch the public/private spaces together binding what had been with what could be in a restored version of optimism.
