A residential addition
for an elderly family member moving back home, the project designed and built
by the design architects provides a distinct programmatic separation while
formally unwravelling its exterior surfaces to embrace the existing house. The
exterior surfaces of the project are made up of stacked cedar members that are
‘stitched together’ at surface intersections, the detailing of which allow for
opaque areas and for partially transparent areas along the building’s exterior.
The partially transparent areas occur at windows and doors allowing for sun
shade, privacy, ventilation, and an experiential and physical connection to the
natural environment in which the project is situated.At a detail level,
the project utilizes an alternating A-B system of surfaces made of the linear
stacked cedar. In order to maintain consistent data through which to align the
linear elements, digitally fabricated vertical ‘teeth’ were inserted at
intervals to maintain accurate overlapping, and to allow for material expansion
and contraction.For the interior
spaces, bamboo is used along with Ipe wood to define the spatial enclosure of
the primary living space while slate and corten steel are used in the private
bathroom.
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