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Before The owner of this house wanted to break out of her box, a very linear split-level ranch house, as well as open up the interior to more light, views and access to the outside.
After Rooms upstairs and down were pushed out toward the light. Porches, sunrooms and terraces were added. Direct access to the outdoors was given to as many rooms as possible. We maintained the existing brick base of the house, but chose local mountain stone and flagstone to build garden walls and terraces.
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Existing access down to the backyard was poor. With the new construction, curving stone steps weave between wood columns,
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leading you down to open and covered terraces,
and then onto the poolside terrace below.
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Rooms that were dark and hidden under a wood deck were pushed out into the sunlight. An outdoor stone enclosed shower provides the base for the stairs and sitting perch above.
Skylights wash the cedar porch walls,
bringing changing light and shadow patterns to the interior.
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Rooms move from interior to sunroom, to screened (or glassed) porch to exterior porch and back to interior again, creating a layering of spaces. It becomes ambiguous as to what is inside and what is outside.
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In an effort to build a year-round porch, we designed a series of sliding glass doors which disappear into thick wall pockets. On cold winter days, the glass doors can easily be pulled out. The room is also warmed by the sun's winter rays, which penetrate deep into the south-facing wall and are absorbed by the slate floor.
On hot summer days, the doors slide away, leaving an open screened porch.
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This existing first floor bedroom had little relation to the outside. To improve this, we cased the double door opening and added a sunken den with glazed south wall and radiant concrete floor slab.
From this new bedroom extension, a door leads outside, opening onto to the curving poolside terrace.
Before On the opposite side of the house sat another bedroom trapped inside.
After By pushing the bedroom out, we were able to get light on three sides of the room and build in corner windows to help expand the sense of space inside. Jogging the house out also produced an exterior corner, which helped enclose an outdoor space, reinforced with paths, landscaping, and places to sit by a fish pond.
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