Tiny House on Wheels is a 200 sq. ft. structure built onto a 8’-4” x 24” Iron Eagle trailer. The total square footage including the loft is 275 sq. ft. Most structures of this genre invariably look like backyard garden sheds, hooked to a pickup, traveling down a given road. Desiring to avoid that look, this solution employs good design, conventional wood frame construction, curvable metal track roof and interior wood finishes.

The exterior is composed of:

• Stained and sealed white birch base

• Exterior siding is Shou Sugi Ban - (Propane torched pine)

• Stainless steel and acrylic trim at windows and junctures

• Back walnut decking at the rear porch

• Stock aluminum clad windows and doors

• Standing seam silver galvalume roof

The interior is composed of:

• Lightweight bamboo flooring

• Limited tile flooring at the WC

• Painted shiplap siding at the base of walls

• Painted luan covered walls

• Painted birch cabinetry

• Wood countertops and other wood components

• Painted luan ceiling

• R 22 wall and R 40 roof polyiso insulation

Exterior components, which can be readily identified in the drawings, are comprised of the following: condenser, air handler unit, 2-30lbs stackable propane tanks, 12V battery rack, 400-watt solar panel kit with inverter.

Interior components are comprised of the following: adapted conventional toilet, rectangular sink, built-in-place shower, 24” wide cooktop, 24” wide oven, 24” wide counter dishwasher, 24” washer/ dryer combo, 75” tall refrigerator/freezer, tankless electric water heater 11kw for shower, washer dryer and WC sink, 6kw electric tankless water heater 1 gpm at kitchen sink and flat bed water tanks.

First Child House is a cottage structure of modest size that is used as a primary residence and a home office for a designer and his wife. It is intended to be a cozy dwelling, awaiting the first-born child, located on a garden plot in Lambertville, NJ.

Not unlike pre-war English cottages, it is designed with a stucco exterior with accents of blonde colored limestone with English chimney pots.

The ground floor contains the living spaces along with a Kitchen, small Office with a separate Entry. The upper floor of contains a Bedroom, Bathroom and a Nursery tucked under the eaves.

Materials: Stucco exterior walls with slate tile roof

Stories: 1-1/2

Bedrooms: 1 + Nursery

Baths: 1

Office: 1

Width: 30’-6”

Depth: 26’-0”

Ceiling Heights:

• Basement: 8’-0”

• 1st Floor: 9'-0"

• 2nd Floor: 10'-0” (Pitched Ceiling)

Total SF: 1,196 sf exclusive of the Basement level

Grandparent’s Summer House is a planned summer cabin for an older couple with numerous grandchildren. It is located near Middleburg, in Loudoun County, Virginia, and is used predominantly in the Summer months.

The lower level contains the living spaces and the master bedroom, plus access to 2 screened-in porches. The second floor level is a simple loft that is accessed by a hall ladder and is a sleeping area for the grandchildren.

Materials: Vertical board and batten wood siding with standing seam metal roof.

Stories: 1-1/2

Bedrooms: 1 + Sleeping Loft

Baths: 1 + WC

Width: 35’-3”

Depth: 18’-0”

Ceiling Height:

• 1st Floor: 7'-0" - 9’-0” (Pitched)

• 2nd Floor: 6’-6” (Pitched)

Total SF: 750 sf

Texas Cottage and Bunkhouse are a modern version of two board and batten structures for an owner of a large ranch located near Fredricksberg, in Texas Hill Country.

These are prototypical structures that provide a temporary base for the ranch owner and his ranch hands. Both prototypes are intended to be built in numerous locations on the far-flung ranch, for overnight stays during cattle drives. During the day, the cowboys go about gathering the cattle from the range to brand and ear-mark the calves, wean, sort for ownership and cut out those for shipment to market. At nightfall they would return to the base for rest, dinner and sleep.

The ranch has been in the family for seven generations and is set in pure Texas Hill Country, a rugged terrain with exposed limestone and granite rocks and boulders. The land supports yucca, prickly pear cactus, desert spoon, and native wildflowers. The predominant trees in the region are Ashe Juniper and Texas Live Oak. Irregular pastures, rolling hills, roaming cattle, and winding country trails and roads comprise the landscape.

On the exterior is comprised of familiar Hill Country building materials: cedar posts, board and batten siding, and a standing-seam galvanized metal roof. Detailing is simple, with exposed rafter tails, square posts, and subtle detailing above the windows. The wide front porch measures 8 feet deep, providing plenty of room for rocking chairs. Two eyebrow set above the front porch bring in additional light to the open plan interior.

The simplicity is carried through to the interiors. Befitting the house's rural roots, the interior trim and detailing is kept to minimum. There is simple moulding around the windows or at the ceiling. The baseboards are 10” pine boards with a shaved top. The cottage has two limestone fireplaces, complete with a mantel made of a slab of Texas Live Oak supported by limestone corbels and surround. The Bunkhouse has pot belly stove in the living area.

Interior Materials: Wide plank oak flooring, painted drywall walls, and sloped ceilings with expressed timber structure. Terracotta wall tile and quarry tile flooring in the bath. The balance of the rooms are finished with oak flooring, painted drywall walls, and sloped painted drywall ceilings.

Exterior Materials: The exterior walls are board and batten, wood trim boards, and a standing seam galvalume roof with a mill finish.

Cottage Specs: 1 Story, 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, 2 Patios with Pergolas, Width: 35’-0”, Depth: 24’-0”, Main Area Ceiling: 9'-0" to 16’-0” (Exposed Timber Pitched, Shed Area Ceiling: 9’-0”, Total SF: 802 sf.

Bunkhouse Specs: 1 Story, 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, 2 Patios with Pergolas, Width: 35’-0”, Depth: 24’-0”, Main Area Ceiling: 9'-0" to 16’-0” (Exposed Timber Pitched, Shed Area Ceiling: 9’-0”, Total SF: 802 sf.

Rocky Hill Cottage is actually an addition to an 1840’s Carpenter Gothic Cottage, often referred to historically as a “One-on-One”, meaning one room atop another room. It was possibly derived from Andrew J, Downing’s 1942 book, Cottage Residences, a highly influential pattern book of houses that mixed romantic architecture with the English countryside's pastoral picturesque. The book was widely read and consulted, doing much to spread the so-called "Carpenter Gothic" and Hudson River Bracketed architectural styles among Victorian builders, both commercial and private.

Identifying features of the Carpenter Gothic style include steeply pitched roofs and gables, gingerbread ornamentation, fancy scroll work, barge boards, carved porch railings, diamond pane windows, and strong vertical design elements, such as board and batten siding. Window trim typically replicated the masonry trim of English Gothic cathedrals on these otherwise simple country cottages. Early Gothic cottages were usually square and symmetrical.

The diamond pane windows and doors and the ten light doors of the house were purchased from Princeton University during the demolition of a 1920’s eating club on campus named the Prospect Club.

The design incorporates these re-purposed elements as well as the original cottage into a united and balance whole.

The original cottage, with the porch just 8’ feet off the neighborhood road, was move back 50 feet on the site, onto a new foundation with a full basement.

Materials: Princeton stone base, vertical board and batten wood exterior walls with a red cedar shake roof. Gravel paths and blue slate stepping stone paths

Stories: 1-1/2 + Full Basement

Bedrooms: 3

Baths: 1 + WC

Offices: 2 (Basement with Light Wells)

Width: 30’-6”

Depth: 26’-0”

Ceiling Heights:

• Basement: 8'-0"

• 1st Floor: 9'-0"

• 2nd Floor: 8'-0” to 12 (Barrel Vaulted Ceiling in Master Bedroom)

Total SF: 1,800 sf exclusive of the Basement level

Ideal House is a visual design study that explores mastering the concept of balance as one of the key aspects in the resolution of a design.

When a house design achieves balance - which can happen with both symmetrical and asymmetrical designs - it establishes greater harmony, and appreciation of the completed project will become immediately apparent to the eye.

Symmetry is the visual quality of repeating parts of an house design across an axis, along a linear thread or around a center.

Asymmetry, is quite the opposite, where there is a absence of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of a house design.

Balance is the visual principle of making a house design appear equally weighted throughout the composition. Balance measures the visual weight of a house composition, which impacts how much each element attracts attention.

The perfect house is the successful attainment of the aesthetic, programmatic, pragmatic, budgetary, and lastly, the visual balance of a design.

DC French House is a design located in the Woodley Park section of Washington, DC close to the Zoo, Embassy Row and the National Cathedral.

Blending elements of French Provincial design and French Normandy stonework, the home sits on a 1/4 acre lot, elegant and calm. The rustic stone exterior is offset by finer touches such as embossed/carved details on banisters, scones, mouldings. Other characteristics of the design includes curved arches, composition lines both linear and vertical, and polychrome stonework.

The interior includes French oak flooring, plastered and tiles walls, and exposed wood beams.

Materials: Limestone exterior walls with grey slate tile roof.

Stories: 2-1/2

Bedrooms: 3

Baths: 2 + WC

Office: 1

Width: 30’-6”

Depth: 26’-0”

Ceiling Height:

• 1st Floor: 9'-0"

• 2nd Floor: 10'-0”

• 3rd Floor: Exposed Structure

Square Footage: 1,841 sf exclusive of Basement level

This project was designed as a smaller version of French Provincial home, a style much admired by the owner. The style has its roots in the rural manor homes and chateau’s that were built in the middle of the 1600’s during the rule of Louis XIV and popularized in a 1920’s revival in the US.

Formal and stately, these manor homes were characterized by balanced, symmetrical proportions, white walls, a steep roof, tall windows, tall doors, and a simple grandeur.

The project was formulated as a universal designed home for a recently retired couple.

Interior Materials: Maple flooring in a chevron pattern, painted drywall walls, and sloped ceilings with expressed beams. Terracotta tile and limestone running bond flooring in the Bath. The balance of the rooms are finished with maple flooring, painted drywall walls, and sloped painted drywall ceilings.

Exterior Materials: The main exterior walls and the secondary walls stucco finished concrete block assembly. The roof is standing seam metal roof painted the client’s favorite color, Aubusson blue.

Stories: 1

Bedrooms: 1

Baths: 1

Patios: 2 + Pergolas

Width: 35’-0”

Depth: 24’-0”

Ceiling Heights:

• Main Area: 9'-0" to 16’-0” (Exposed Ceiling Beams)

• Shed Area: 9’-0”

Total SF: 802 sf

The Farm Cottage is a composition of farm building types to serve as a small cottage. A prefabricated 18’ diameter grain silo, from Sioux Steel, houses a Master Bedroom and Bath downstairs and an Office above on the second floor. The silo is surrounded by a Yellow River Rock bedding. The silo engages a insulated glass rectangle, that is enclosed with operable wood shutters that resemble a corn crib, and contains the Kitchen, Dining and Living Room areas.

Interior Materials: Wide plank maple flooring in a random pattern, glass walls and limited painted drywall walls, and sloped ceilings with expressed beams. Terracotta tile and limestone running bond flooring in the Bath. The balance of the rooms are finished with maple flooring, painted drywall walls, and sloped painted drywall ceilings.

Exterior Materials: The silo is prefabricated galvanized steel structure and the rectangle is a insulated glass with wood shutters and a stone back wall. The roof is standing seam steel roof on both the silo and rectangle structure.

Stories: 2

Bedrooms: 1

Baths: 1

Office: 1

Patio: 1 + Pergola

Width: 30’-6”

Depth: 15’-0”

Ceiling Height:

• 1st Floor: 9'-0" to 12’-0” (Sloped)

• 2nd Floor: 16'-0” (Exposed Structure)

Square Footage: 916 sf

English Cottage is a design derived from early Georgian architecture for a university professor and that sits quietly on a small suburban lot in Princeton, NJ.

The Georgian style is marked by symmetry and proportion based on the classical architecture of Greece and Rome and inspired by the classicism of the Italian Renaissance.

The design has a symmetrical arrangement of windows and doors on the façade. 5 bays (or openings) across the façade with a wood paneled door at the center. Ornament is in the classical tradition, but restrained, and sparsely used on the exterior.

Simple mathematical ratios are used to determine the height of the windows in relation to its width or the shape of a room as a double cube. The stone walls of varied colors render this design as a stately and elegant solution. As a smaller house, this design is similar to vicarage, where it employs a simple block plan, visible gambrel roof, a central doorway, that are flanked by side walls with chimneys.

The front and side gardens are bordered by a dry-stack stone walls, adding that extra traditional element and a natural texture. In keeping with the cottage aesthetic the drystone wall is punctuated by a small wooden gate and picket fencing, (not depicted so as not to hide the architecture).

The interior is comprised of an open plan providing Living, Dining and Kitchen areas. The Washer/Dryer Room, Bath, Walk-in Closet and Bedroom all open onto this open plan.

Interior Materials: Wide oak flooring, drywall walls, and sloped ceilings. Ceramic tile and oak wood flooring in the Bath. The balance of the rooms are finished with oak flooring, drywall walls, and sloped drywall ceilings.

Exterior Materials: Field stone and concrete block assembly constitutes the primary exterior walls. The Flack walls are an insulated stucco system on concrete block. The roof is a slate shingle gambrel shape.

Stories: 1

Bedrooms: 1

Baths: 1

Patios: 2 + Pergolas

Width: 35’-0”

Depth: 24’-0”

Ceiling Heights:

• Main Area: 9'-0" to 16’-0”

• Shed Area: 9’-0”

Total SF: 802 sf

Designed as a winter retreat for a New York City couple, this Modern Ranch Cottage is located near Tombstone, in Cochise County, Arizona at the foot of the Dragoon Mountains on a 34.6 acre parcel.

The parcel was bought with underground electric and phone and quality maintained dirt roads already installed. It sits above the San Pedro aquifer for excellent quality groundwater. It is ideal for the horses that the couple maintains while most surrounding properties being used for cattle and other farm and ranch animals.

Lying between the San Pedro River Wilderness Preserve and the Dragoon Mountains the land gently terraces up from the river valley to the mountains, cresting at the Dragoon's foothills. And the Dragoons are but the beginning of spectacular mountain vistas to the west, the Whetstones, the Huachucas to the southwest, the Rincons northwest and Little Dragoons to the north all adding their visual magic.

The first floor contains the living areas with a fireplace, an open Kitchen, an Office and a Bathroom. The two loft areas, accessible via circular stairs, are the Master Bedroom and a Guest Bedroom.

The cottage is equipped with barn doors, sliding shutters and hinged shutters, allowing for complete lock-down when unoccupied.

Interior Materials:

• 1st Floor: Clay tile flooring, plaster walls, and exposed beam ceiling. Ceramic tile and channel glass walls finishes at the Bathroom.

• 2nd Floor: Wide plank wood flooring, plaster walls, and exposed wood beam ceiling.

Exterior Materials: A insulated stucco system on concrete block wall assembly with a rubberized insulated roof system.

Stories: 2

Bedrooms: 2

Baths: 1

Office: 1

Terrace: 1

Patio: 1

Width: 50’-9”

Depth: 17’-8”

Ceiling Heights:

• Main Area: 17’-8” to 19’-8” (Pitched Exposed Beams)

• Bedrooms: 9’-0” Average

Total SF: 1,148 sf

Beach House is a design just outside of Beaufort, North Carolina, for multiple units to be used as vacation properties and as rental properties during the summer season.

The prototype is designed with structural components to be hurricane resistant and with weather resistant exterior elements to reduce the effects of salt air and high winds.

The house sits on concrete piers that are disguised by a concrete panel skirt.

Interior Materials:

• 1st Floor: Wood plank flooring, shiplap walls, tiled Kitchen, and exposed wood structural ceiling. Ceramic tile and channel glass walls at Bathroom.

• 2nd Floor: Wood plank flooring, plaster walls, exposed beam ceiling. Ceramic tile and shiplap walls at Bathroom

Exterior Materials: Factory colored composite exterior simulated wood siding with reflective standing seam metal roof. Stucco chimney enclosure with slate chimney cap.

Stories: 2

Bedrooms: 2

Baths: 2 + WC

Balconies: 2

Width: 20’-0”

Depth: 25’-6”

Ceiling Heights:

• 1st Floor: 9'-0"

• 2nd Floor: 10'-0" - 14’-0” (Exposed Ceiling Structure)

Total SF: 1,065 sf