Princeton House I is a modern design option for a residence and stable on 9 acres off of Pretty Brook Road in Princeton, NJ. The residence is a two story dwelling for a family of five: two at-home working adults, a university research scientist and a graphic designer, and their three children.
Sited on the steepest slopes in Princeton, which are found primarily along Stony Brook and its tributaries, the house is surrounded by American Sycamore, Shingle Oak, Princeton Elm and a variety of Maple trees.
Interior Materials:
1st Floor: 4” ash oak plank flooring, patterned concrete flooring, painted drywall walls, black slate walls, white oak paneling, and painted drywall ceilings. Ceramic tile and limestone flooring in Bathrooms.
2nd Floor: 4” ash flooring, painted drywall walls, and drywall ceilings. Ceramic tile and limestone in Bathrooms.
Exterior Materials:
Walls: Porcelain enamel metal panel exterior walls and fieldstone exterior walls.
Exterior Windows and Doors: Insulated tempered and annealed glass with metal frames.
Roofs: Single ply EPDM rubberized roofing with a white finish. White scuppers and internal downspouts.
Ecological Considerations:
Wetlands preservation
No tree displacement
Geothermal Heating and Cooling
Solar Flex Panel roof
Polished Light-Weight Concrete flooring
Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, and natural materials sourcing.
Stories: 2 + Basement
Bedrooms: 4
Baths: 3 + WC
Office/Studio: 2
Play Rooms: 1
Patios: 2
Pool: 1
Garage: 2 Car, Attached
Width: 76’-0”
Depth: 48’-0”
Ceiling Heights:
1st Floor: 10’-0”
2nd Floor: 10’-0”
Total SF: 7,152 sf exclusive of partial Basement
Circle House is a modern design for a residence in Princeton, NJ. The residence is a two story dwelling for a family of five: two at-home working adults and three small children.
The design explores the language of space, light and perspective and how pattern and shadows are define in relation to nature.
The residence is comprised of the following:
Interior Materials:
1st Floor: Oak plank flooring, patterned concrete flooring, painted drywall walls, black slate walls, white oak paneling, and painted drywall ceilings. Ceramic tile walls and limestone flooring and countertops in Bathrooms.
2nd Floor: Random oak flooring, painted drywall walls, and drywall ceilings. Ceramic tile walls and limestone flooring and countertops in Bathrooms.
Exterior Materials:
Walls: Tilt-up concrete panel exterior walls, perforated metal sun screens, vertical white oak panel shutters and floor to ceiling tempered glass windows with metal frames.
Exterior Windows and Doors: Insulated tempered and annealed glass windows and sliding doors with metal frames.
Roofs: EPDM rubberized roofing with internal downspouts.
Ecological Considerations:
Geothermal Heating and Cooling
Polished Light-Weight Concrete Flooring
On-Site Tilt-up Polished Concrete Walls
Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, and natural materials sourcing.
Stories: 2 + Basement
Bedrooms: 4
Baths: 3 + WC
Office/Studio: 2
Play Rooms: 1
Patios: 2
Pool: 1
Garage: 2 Car, Attached
Width: 76’-0”
Depth: 48’-0”
Ceiling Heights:
1st Floor: 10’-0”
2nd Floor: 10’-0”
Total SF: 5,125sf
Carefree House is a modern design for a residence located in the town of Carefree just outside Scottsdale, Arizona. The residence sits on the eastern side of Black Mountain, which is predominately granite, along with some other meta-sedimentary rock.
Accessed by a private drive that descends from a ridge, the project reveals itself after a turn around a bend that is framed by numerous saguaros and boulder outcroppings. The property is replete with other cacti including Beavertail, Prickly Pear, and Organ Pipe. Other vegetation includes Creosote bush, Bur sage, Indigo bush and Morman Tea shrub. Wildflowers including Desert sand-verbena, Desert Sunflower and Evening Primroses were added to enhance the coloration of the stone base of the residence.
Trees such as velvet mesquite, palo verde and desert ironwood, all indigenous to the Sanora desert, were added as part of the landscape plan.
The house is has a granite and limestone base set on insulated CMU walls. The second floor is a insulated metal panel exterior wall with insulated floor to ceiling tempered glass skin.
The house sits serenely as part of the desert landscape.
The residence is a two story dwelling for a retired couple who are life-long athletes.
The residence is comprised of the following:
Interior Materials:
1st Floor: 4” mesquite flooring, painted drywall walls, black slate walls, and painted drywall ceilings. Ceramic tile and basalt stone flooring in Bathrooms.
2nd Floor: 4” mesquite flooring, painted drywall walls, and drywall ceilings. Ceramic tile and 4” mesquite flooring in Bathrooms.
Exterior Materials:
Walls: Insulated metal panel exterior walls and local granite and sandstone exterior walls.
Exterior Windows and Doors: Insulated tempered and annealed glass with metal frames.
Roofs: EPDM rubberized roofing. White scuppers and internal downspouts.
Ecological Considerations:
Mechanized sliding screens to minimize heat gain on both the south and north sides
Geothermal Heating and Cooling
Polished Light-Weight Concrete Flooring
Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, water conservation, and natural materials sourcing.
Stories: 2
Bedrooms: 2
Baths: 3 + WC
Office/Studio: 1
Interior Pool: 1
Terrace: 1
Deck: 1
Garage: 1
Width: 66’-0”
Depth: 38’-0”
Ceiling Heights:
1st Floor: 13’-0”
2nd Floor: 10’-0”
Total SF: 4,270 sf
The Wave House is located near the town of Pescadero, California, a farming and ranching community near the Pescadero Marsh, a wildlife refuge. The town is popular among tourists for it’s quaint setting, sandy beaches and steep cliff shoreline.
Pescadero is also known for its many trails, Memorial Park, Butano State Park and the Pigeon Point Lighthouse.
The Wave House is situated between State Route 1 to the East, the main North-South artery, and the Pacific coast.
The clients - a married couple from San Jose, and proud parents of three teen age children - purchased the 3 acre long sliver of coastline for its expansive sunset views over the Pacific, its solitude, and the nearby ranches which allow for horseback riding.
The couple, who work remotely for Disney as product designers, have an office above the carport. The family are water sport enthusiasts, in particular sailing and surfing, which influenced the design of the main imagery of the house and the layout of the house plan.
The residence is comprised of the following:
Interior Materials:
1st Floor: 5” select cypress flooring, painted drywall walls, black slate walls, and painted drywall ceilings. Ceramic tile and marble tile flooring and countertops in Bathrooms. White Verona marble floors at entries.
2nd Floor: 5” select cypress flooring, painted drywall walls, black slate walls, Verona white marble walls, and painted drywall ceilings. Ceramic tile and marble tile flooring and countertops in Bathrooms.
Exterior Materials:
Walls: Thin shell concrete shell exterior walls, white, grey and blue porcelain enamel metal panel walls, and electric blue steel structural members. White Verona marble walls at entries.
Exterior Windows and Doors: Insulated tempered and annealed 3 pane glass with metal frames.
Roofs: White porcelain enamel metal panel exterior roofing panels. Thin shell concrete curved roofs painted white. Brise-soleil at all large window and door openings.
Ecological Considerations:
Mechanized brise soleils above windows as shading devices to minimize heat gain on both the south and north sides
Geothermal Heating and Cooling
Maximizing exposure and windowed areas in the south
Use of the natural landscape to act as buffer of against the prevailing wind
Floor heating to block energy losses from the ground
Ventilation with heat pumps
Overhanging roofs that shelter from sun in the summer and let in light during the winter
Optimization of natural ventilation
Numerous “Green” construction materials and products.
Stories: 2
Bedrooms: 5
Baths: 6 + 2 WC
Office/Studio: 1
Pool: 1
Terrace: 1
Carport: 2 cars
Width: 148’-10”
Depth: 82’-6”
Ceiling Heights:
1st Floor: Varies 11’-0” to 29’-0”
2nd Floor: 10’-0”
Total SF: 6,228 sf
This New York City penthouse is a project involved the gutting and renovation of a NYC condo in the East 50’s. Commissioned by a single man who works as a financier and is an avid collector of modern art. The spaces include the following spaces:
Keyed Elevator Lobby
Guest Bedroom and Bath
Kitchen with a Dining Alcove
Living Room
Master Bedroom
Master Bath
The art collection, quite expansive and with significantly large canvases, required astute planning and adjustment of the existing floor plan.
The total square footage of the apartment is 1,800 +/- and construction took approximately 6 months.
Hilton Head Beach House is located on Duck Lane and is a single story retired couple’s family retreat with an studio tower and a separate office. The couple, a former airline pilot and a wall street finance officer, rent the house during the summer season.
There are two covered porches on the beachside and the front of the house. The house has a large open living area which is clad in shiplap with an exposed wood ceiling structure above.
The residence is comprised of the following:
Interior Materials:
4” natural hickory flooring, predominately 8” painted shiplap walls, painted drywall walls, and painted drywall ceilings with painted exposed ceiling structure. Ceramic tile and 4” natural hickory flooring in Bathrooms.
Exterior Materials:
Exterior Walls: 7-1/2” exposure painted wood siding on 2”x6” studs. Framed wood lattice apron base, disguising 18” diameter concrete pile foundation footings.
Exterior Windows and Doors: Insulated tempered and annealed glass with wood frames and trim.
Roofs: 5-1/2” exposure cedar perfection shingles.
Ecological Considerations:
Naturally treated wood as the main building material
Ventilation with heat pumps
Overhanging roofs that shelter from sun in the summer and let it enter during winter
Optimization of natural ventilation
Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, and natural materials sourcing.
Stories: 2
Bedrooms: 2
Baths: 1 + WC
Office/Studio: 2
Deck/Porch: 2
Width, (Main Houses): 38’-5”
Depth, (Main House): 46’-0”
Ceiling Heights:
Main House: 11’-0” to 18’-0”, (Sloped)
Office: 11’-0” to 14’-9”, (Sloped)
Tower: 1st Floor: 11’-0”, 2nd Floor: 14’-0”, (Sloped)
Total SF: 2,177 sf
Lake House is located near the town of Buffalo at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains, a range in northern Wyoming, forming the northwest-trending spur of the Rocky Mountains. Buffalo is known for its mountainous surroundings, tourism activity and cattle ranches.
The project lies in a forested low point, adjacent to a man-made lake on the property. The site’s beauty renders it clear that any construction should be respectful of the natural environs. The form of the building was designed to be low, long and horizontal and the material palette was composed of natural, local materials which would blend into the landscape.
The clients are a New York City family, who use the residence as an base for recreational activities such as horseback riding, hunting, swimming, fishing, canoeing, hiking and more. As a result, it was crucial that the space be designed to be durable, rugged and easily maintained. This was achieved by using a appropriate palette of natural and raw materials such as fossilized limestone, granite and local wood siding.
The program, beyond the typical residential spaces, required an outdoor deck space for dining, a wine cellar in that they are wine connoisseurs, and a space for the storage and care of canoes.
The residence is comprised of the following:
Interior Materials:
1st Floor: 5” select hard maple flooring, (dogs), painted drywall walls, limestone walls, and painted drywall ceilings. Ceramic tile and marble tile flooring in Bathrooms with honed limestone counters.
2nd Floor: 5” select hard maple flooring, (dogs), painted drywall walls, limestone walls, and painted drywall ceilings. Ceramic tile and marble tile flooring in Bathrooms with honed limestone counters.
Exterior Materials:
Walls: Vertical grain fir exterior siding and soffits, structural steel columns and beams, painted white. Fossilized limestone at entries.
Exterior Windows and Doors: Floor to ceiling insulated tempered and annealed 3 pane glass with metal frames.
Roofs: Single ply EPDM membrane with a white top layer.
Ecological Considerations:
Floor heating to block energy losses from the ground
Use of locally produced and naturally treated wood as the main building material
Natural ventilation
Planting of Long Pole Pine and Spruce trees for insulation in the north and deciduous trees to the south to create shade in the summer and let the light pass in the winter
Bermed Lower Level on the North face of the project
Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, and natural materials sourcing.
Stories: 2
Bedrooms: 4
Baths: 4 + WC
Deck: 1
Garage: 2 cars
Width: 93’-6”
Depth: 65’-6”
Ceiling Heights:
Upper Level: 12’-0”
Lower Level: 9 -0”
Total SF: 5,355 sf
St. Louis Penthouse is located in the Park East Tower, a landmark high-rise condo building, in the Central West End area of St Louis.
The penthouse consists of the 25th and 26th floors of the building and provides panoramic 360-degree views of the city, including the Gateway Arch, with its floor-to-ceiling windows. Curvilinear walls provide relief from the existing skyscraper exterior grid and serve to frame both views and spaces. The residence was designed with the expressed purpose of entertaining, containing details like a wine room, bar, dumbwaiter, and includes a two story gallery for the owner’s artwork collection.
The residence features a living room, salon, family room, kitchen with an island and custom cabinetry. The penthouse has outdoor terrace space that covers more than 3,000 square feet, The home has two bedrooms and 4 baths, a discreet elevator, 2 large dressing rooms, a TV room and an office.
Butterfly House is a vacation house located near Sequim, Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula. Sequim is located along the Dungeness River near the base of the Olympic Mountains. An area known for its lush, natural landscapes, ice capped mountains, commercial lavender production and the Sequim Bay.
Despite being partially on the coast, the inland areas, where the project is located, are arid and hilly. The clients, who make their primary home in Seattle, built this as a vacation house that provides the family a quiet retreat from the busy city life, offering multiple opportunities for fishing, water sports, and in particular, hiking.
The building siting is a consequence of two natural landscaping features; a slender hill in a bowl situated in the middle of the property, on which the house sits, and the distinctive pine and fir tree foothills that border it.
The butterfly roof is inspired by the monarch butterflies, abundant in the summer months, before they migrate from the Northwest to California in the late summer and fall.
The low point of the roof splits the home into two linear sections; one that faces the main road and public realm, and the other section which fronts onto a deck. Its glass elevation is tall and long, open to the western daylight and lake views. At the center, a rotunda cylinder, is the loci that divides the living areas from the more private areas of the house.
The buildings’ exterior skin is composed of lightly stained Douglas fir as fine horizontal slats, exposed high-density timber faced panel soffits and ceilings, and a stainless steel chimney. All wood products were sourced from nearby mills in Port Angeles.
Above all, the Butterfly House is designed to utilize the local skill, talent and material language of the region. Building construction is economized by using cladding and framing techniques that are well known and easy to adapt in a modern vocabulary.
The interior composition of the house comprises two wings flanking a central rotunda.
The residence is comprised of the following:
Interior Materials:
6” western hemlock flooring, painted drywall walls, limestone fireplace, timber faced panel ceilings, and painted drywall ceilings. Ceramic tile and marble tile flooring in Bathrooms with honed limestone counters.
Exterior Materials:
Walls: Floor to ceiling insulated tempered walls, vertical grain fir exterior siding and soffits, structural steel columns and beams, painted white. Fossilized limestone at entries.
Exterior Windows and Doors: Floor to ceiling insulated tempered and annealed 3 pane glass with metal frames.
Roofs: 1” standing seam metal roof.
Ecological Considerations:
Floor heating to block energy losses from the ground
Use of locally produced and naturally treated wood as the main building material
Parklex, a high-density timber faced panel
Natural ventilation
Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, and natural materials sourcing.
Stories: 1
Bedrooms: 4
Baths: 4 + WC
Deck: 1
Garage: 2 cars, detached
Width: 115’-6”
Depth: 30’-6”
Ceiling Height:
Low Point: 9’-0”
High Point: 10’ -10”
Tower: 19’-0”
Total SF: 3,358 sf
Colorado House located just outside of the town of Sterling which is on the Eastern Plains. These are the easternmost portion of the Great Plains. The region is characterized by mostly rolling plains, divided by the South Platte River and Arkansas River valleys. There are few trees, but the small canyons, buttes, and a few large natural lakes and rivers, render the landscape less lonesome.
Approached from the north, a driveway leads from the main road to a private parking court, sheltered from wind and weather with trees that are placed in a semi-circle, (not shown because they obscure the rendering of the house). The house is expressed as a series of rectangles, clad in stained Western cedar, and an entry tower that acts as a hinge between living areas from the east bedroom rectangle.
The living rectangle spaces include a Living Room, Dining Area, Kitchen and a Pantry.
The bedroom rectangle spaces include three Bedrooms, two individual Baths, a WC, a Storage Room and Laundry Room.
The other ancillary rectangles include a Potting Shed, and an Office.
Sliding panels of glass open to an outdoor deck, further blurring the boundary between interior and southern exposure exterior.
The residence is comprised of the following:
Interior Materials:
6” Ambrosia maple flooring, painted drywall walls, limestone fireplace, timber faced panel ceilings, and painted drywall ceilings, and curved black-stained cedar boards line the main entry. Ceramic tile and marble tile flooring in Bathrooms with honed limestone counters.
Exterior Materials:
Walls: Floor to ceiling insulated tempered glass, stained Western cedar, painted Western cedar, and reclaimed barnwood. Ribbed metal siding at the Tower entry cylinder. Composite wood panels soffits, structural timber columns and beams. Fossilized limestone at entries.
Exterior Windows and Doors: Floor to ceiling insulated tempered and annealed 3 pane glass with metal frames.
Roofs: 1” standing seam metal roof with a factory silver paint finish.
Ecological Considerations:
Floor heating to block energy losses from the ground
Use of locally produced and naturally treated wood as the main building material
Parklex, a high-density timber faced panel used for soffits
Natural ventilation
Rainwater collection system
Planting of Colorado Blue Spruce on the north face that shade in the summer, let the light pass in the winter and provide wind protection
Stories: 1
Bedrooms: 3
Baths: 2 + WC
Deck: 1
Garage: 2 cars, detached
Width:
Living Spaces: 93’-6”
Bedroom Wing: 0’-0”
Depth:
Living Spaces: 93’-6”
Bedroom Wing: 0’-0”
Ceiling Height:
Low Point: 9’-0”
High Point: 10’ -10”
Tower: 19’-0”
Total SF: 3,327 sf
Napa, California House is located near Rutherford, California, between towns of Napa and St. Helena, in the wine country of Napa Valley. It is the summer home for a young family from San Francisco.
The house is formally composed of 2 rectilinear volumes and is designed for optimal interaction with the outdoors. The main house is a stacked box, clad in red cedar horizontal siding atop a glass-encased ground level. Large sliding glass door panels allow the heart of the home, the kitchen, dining room, and living room, to open up to the swimming pool and deck and to the surrounding rolling foothills.
Adjacent to the pool, at a right angle to the main house, is a garage which accommodates two automobiles and in the distance is the Mayacamas mountain range.
Floating white oak stairs, in the central rectangle connects the ground floor with the light-filled upper level. A long corridor is used to display a small artwork collection.
The house is composed of herringbone patterned white oak floors, Verona marble floor at Foyer, floor to ceiling over-scale doors and windows and a mixture of light-toned stonework and tiles. The family room is centrally located and openings on all four sides.
The residence is comprised of the following:
Interior Materials:
1st Floor: 4” herringbone patterned white oak flooring, painted drywall walls, black slate walls, and painted drywall ceilings. Ceramic tile walls and marble tile flooring and countertop in Bathrooms.
2nd Floor: 4” herringbone patterned white oak flooring, painted drywall walls, black slate accent walls, and painted drywall ceilings. Ceramic tile and marble tile flooring and countertop in Bathrooms.
Exterior Materials:
Walls: Red cedar siding, floor to ceiling tempered glass and white enamel metal panel walls. White Verona marble walls at Foyer central rectangle.
Exterior Windows and Doors: Insulated tempered and annealed glass with metal frames.
Roofs: White EPDM roof with internal downspouts and enamel metal panel exterior roofing porch roofs.
Ecological Considerations:
Geothermal Heating and Cooling
Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, water conservation, and natural resourcing.
Stories: 2
Bedrooms: 4
Baths: 4 + WC
Pool: 1
Terrace: 1
Garage: 2 cars
Width: 78’-3”
Depth: 40’-10”
Ceiling Heights:
1st Floor: 10’-0”
2nd Floor: 9’-0”
Total SF: 4,234 sf; Garage: 625 sf
Located near Calistoga, a small town in Northern California’s Napa Valley, this house is placed serenely into a landscape of grape vines and mature Chinese Pistache and Desert Willow trees. The clients, a mechanical engineer and his wife from San Francisco, desired a modern retreat, with great appreciation of the property’s vistas. They elected to plant a number of grasses such as California Dune Sedge, Esparto Grass and Slender Veldt Grass, so as not to obstruct any views.
The home’s design, the relationship to the site and straightforwardness of the plan provide for an uncomplicated solution. A deliberate attempt was made to reduce the number of openings and partitions within the interior. The main entry directs visitors to the heart of the house and faces the Living Room. A sandstone clad fireplace lies at the center of the glass rectangle that is the 1st floor. The end walls are cedar clad to act as a frame of the open plan.
The rear glass wall leads to an expansive veranda that contains dining and seating areas as well as a plunge pool. The rear yard includes numerous opportunities for entertaining, including a fire pit and croquet court, with views of the vineyards beyond.
Basalt tile flooring throughout the lower level floors in common areas. Whitecabinetry and rich copper tones of the fireplace surround reflect the hues of the exterior landscape and balance the clean lines and crisp expression of white painted drywall.
The residence is comprised of the following:
Interior Materials:
1st Floor: Dark grey running bond basalt tile floor, select 4” oak flooring, exposed structural columns, white willow cabinetry, painted drywall walls, and painted drywall ceilings. Marble tile flooring and slab countertops in Bathrooms.
2nd Floor: Select 4” oak flooring, exposed structural columns, white willow cabinetry, painted drywall walls, and painted drywall ceilings. Marble tile flooring and slab countertops in Bathrooms.
Exterior Materials:
Walls: Cedar siding exterior walls at the lower level, porcelain enamel metal panels at the upper level, mechanized galvanized aluminum shade panels, and exposed structural steel members. White Verona marble at entry stoop. The aluminum shade panels are depicted here in both the open and closed positions.
Exterior Windows and Doors: Floor to Ceiling insulated tempered and annealed glass with metal frames.
Roofs: White EPDM roof with internal downspouts and enamel metal panel exterior roofing porch roofs.
Ecological Considerations:
Mechanized sliding screens to minimize heat gain on both the southwest and northeast sides
Geothermal Heating and Cooling
Basalt Flooring
Use of Bioswales in the landscaping of the site
Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, water conservation, and natural materials sourcing.
Stories: 2
Bedrooms: 3
Baths: 4
Plunge Pool: 1
Terrace: Deck
Garage: 2 cars, Detached
Width: 81’-0”
Depth: 24’-10”
Ceiling Heights:
1st Floor: 10’-8”
2nd Floor: 9’-0”
Total SF: 3,592 sf; Garage: 615 sf
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