The clients of this addition
were interested in expanding their existing 2 bedrooms, 2-bath house. Cruciform in plan, the existing house
did not “lend” itself to expansion easily. A strategy of utilizing contrasting
elements that lightly touch the existing house clarifies the relationship
between old and new.
As the program requirements
for the two level scheme were not symmetrical, a shifted upper level volume was
adopted over a simple stacked solution providing a covered veranda adjacent to
the new master bedroom.