Four decades after their project was featured in the 1969 Record Houses issue of Architectural Record, the owners sold the house to a young couple. A condition of the sale was that the new owners would respect the character of the project, yet be able to revisit and alter the closed-off nature of the interior rooms to create a continuous living space visually connected to the woodland site.
Design concept and solution:
The renovation takes the original seven-bedroom house back to its structural shell, repositioning the interior spaces and finishes, including replacing all electrical, plumbing, and other systems. The existing large girder truss system in the house rendered the interior walls non-load bearing, allowing the architect the opportunity to eradicate several walls, yielding unencumbered public and private pavilions throughout the house, linked together by a new glass entry node. Existing floor-to-ceiling windows were kept and now serve to relate the pavilions to each other and to the outdoors.
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