Gallery Ranch House by Forward Design | Architecture
This project was a full renovation of a 1970’s ranch house. The original house was chopped into multiple small-disconnected spaces.
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This project was a full renovation of a 1970’s ranch house. The original house was chopped into multiple small-disconnected spaces.
The homeowners, hailing originally from Italy and India, wanted a warm inviting space that was equally a classic Mediterranean home and a traditional California beach house.
This addition provides the family’s home with a more serviceable weather protected entertaining space, than the previous timber deck with flyover roof. It’s footprint continues to secure the connection between the original kitchen to the set down outdoor pool area.
The family of four, a husband and wife working in the publishing field, and their two daughters, lived in the house for ten years before deciding to do an extension to expand their kitchen and to create bigger rooms for their two daughters.
The Vitrine project—a house for a classical music composer and an opera director—encompasses a three-sided glass extension to a Victorian terrace house in north London.
This 1922 Venice Bungalow retains its exterior charm with original wood-sided facades, column details and thick trims. The addition of two contrasting white volumes increases the square footage from 1,000 to 1,300-square-feet.
The Saint Adrian House, in its genesis, intended to offer just the bare minimum in comfort, health and hygiene under the standards of its time -standards that today, by themselves, would be considered unbearable.
The alterations and additions explore new ways to engage the street and garden while fostering family togetherness. The client’s love for their historic small footprint cottage and garden on 405m2, guided the decision to make small insertion / big impact moves.