Harkers Point

Annapolis, MD, United States

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Harkers Point

Annapolis, MD, United States

Firm

Gardner Architects LLC

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2024

SIZE

5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft

BUDGET

Undisclosed

A clearing in a forest conservation reserve. A point of land on the waterfront. The site at Harkers Point is both.

• Our project at Harkers Point in Annapolis Maryland comprises several structures on a waterfront to their west and south, organized around a welcome garden court. Their angular geometry yields to organic shapes of the forested shore with a pool forming the compound’s southern boundary. Topping out just under the 45’ height limit, the three-story house connects forest floor to treetops.

• The design grew from the development of the overall site - from 750’ of reconstructed “living shoreline” to a series of exterior spaces linked by pathways through forest conservation areas. The client’s design brief for this 8500sf second home: create sequences of interconnected space that weave together landscape and structures.

• Spaces on the first floor - the “forest floor” - are joined in an open-plan configuration. The broader expansive living spaces at this level give way to more intimate spaces reaching outward to the canopy and sky.

• Every habitable space in the house ties to the landscape - whether a deck, a Juliette balcony, or a cantilevered treehouse platform. “Long views” connect the north and south expanses, and “cross-views” bridge east and west through more focused, framed views. Spaces are illuminated with different light through the course of the day via windows, doors, and skylights.

• A biopool forms the southern edge of the house precinct – an ecosystem using aquatic plants, aggregates, and constantly moving water to maintain its clarity, purity, and pH balance.

• Water links each space to the next. An 8’ diameter fountain - the “source” of water - announces the entry courtyard. Visually and via sound, it connects to the biopool and waterfall to the south. Moving towards the spa pavilion, a hot tub also thematically binds to the biopool and waterfall just outside. This sequence of water elements, from fountain to hot tub to biopool to the views of Whitehall Bay, fuse north to south, land to water.

• Biobased, heat-treated exterior siding extends both vertically and horizontally, an abstraction of trunks and branches. Interior hardwood flooring and tile represent wood, soil, and stone. Vertical expanses of millwork stretching the height of the main stair from first floor to third echo the dense forest of oaks, maples, American Beech, sweetgum, and Black Tupelo, constantly changing shape and color with the seasons. Walls of stained or fumed oak millwork connect the forest center at the north to the bio-pool on the south, and tile recreates the sense of stone along the property’s waterways.

• The design achieves a HERS rating 39 – 61% more efficient than the RESNET Reference Home, beating the Energy Star for Homes target of <61 through a vapor-managed high-performing envelope clad in thermo-treated wood, high-efficiency windows and doors, balanced ventilation with an ERV, ground source heat pumps, motorized shading, and energy-star appliances. Pre-wired for a 38kW solar photovoltaic system, a second phase will reduce the HERS rating to 33. The Window to Floor Area (WFA) Ratio is 20%, with 60% of the window area on the south façade. Robust insulation values include R38 exterior walls with R20 achieved through exterior rigid insulation outside of the sheathing, and an R-value of R60 in the roof surfaces.

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Harkers Point

Annapolis, MD, United States

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Annapolis, MD, United States

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