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Designed as a residence and art gallery to display the owner's diverse art collection, this 11,000 square foot structure consists of the renovation and reworking of an existing 1960's modernist structure with the addition of building elements and forms that will sculpturally complement the existing with accommodating the new program elements.

The original house was constructed in a black brick and fir structure. The addition will be clad in a combination of finished wood exterior paneling contrasted with cast in place concrete. Clarity and ambiguity as design intent, alternate in both how materials and assemblies are used. Clear and translucent glass is used as a mediating element between old and new materials and forms alternately functioning as architectural form and membrane. Glass floors between levels, glass windows underwater in the pool, and glass appearing to hold up concrete planes are examples of creating ambiguous conditions in the architecture.

There is extensive site work planned to create a series of outdoor rooms and layered spaces from the street back to the most private outdoor spaces. Physical walls and landscaping materials interchange in both texture and form, to create these spaces.

Construction summer of 2008.