PROJECT Singh Hoysted Live/Work
LOCATION Bethesda, Maryland, US
PROJECT COMPLETION DATE 9/30/2014
ARCHITECT McInturff Architects
ASSOCIATED ARCHITECT
OWNER/CLIENT Confidential Client
CONTRACTOR / CONSTRUCTION MANAGER Added Dimensions / Alan Kanner
PHOTOGRAPHER Julia Heine/ McInturff Architects
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN TEAM Mark McInturff FAIA; Colleen Gove Healey
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT
The program for this infill house in a close-in suburb of Washington DC includes a generous studio for an artist who works in mixed media, a top floor home office suite for the entrepreneurial spouse, and all typical living areas. We were excited by the idea of a house and work spaces overlapping so that each part reveals itself to the other in multiple ways, interlocking the two parts of daily life. The house is conceived of as a block, with one quadrant carved out to create a courtyard, resulting in an L-shaped plan. Like the rest of the house, where work and life are combined, the courtyard is part house and part outdoor work space, allowing for dinner parties among the works in progress. On the exterior, the parts of the house that conform to the block are white and have simply placed openings. The L-shaped courtyard walls are black shingles, with irregularly placed openings, as if to suggest that the creativity of the work in the studio is bursting out of the rationality of the house. Joining the live/work function is a stair rising through the house in half levels, with openings, large and small, that frame vistas as one moves between house and studio and office.
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IMAGE CAPTIONS & CREDITS
IMAGE 1 Julia Heine / McInturff Architects
IMAGE 2 Julia Heine / McInturff Architects
IMAGE 3 Julia Heine / McInturff Architects
IMAGE 4 Julia Heine / McInturff Architects
IMAGE 5 Julia Heine / McInturff Architects
IMAGE 6 Julia Heine / McInturff Architects
IMAGE 7 Julia Heine / McInturff Architects
IMAGE 8 Julia Heine / McInturff Architects
Singh Hoysted Live/Work
Category
Local > AIA Potomac Valley > Residential Architecture - Single Family (AIA Potomac Valley)
Winner Status
- Merit Award
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