The Lookout Retreat is a 3700 square foot modern home nestled in the Montreat valley. The main level allows the owners to feel hidden among the trees as they view the mountain tops. The Lookout can comfortably accommodate two or twelve.
Building in the mountains requires a careful design response to our dynamic land. The Cliffside House has amazing mountain views, however, a rock slide occurred after our clients purchased the property. Rather than sell the lot at a potential loss and start their dreams over, our clients asked us to create a design that was safe and beautiful.
The Nova residence is approximately 3300 sf and is built from cast in place concrete, steel, glass, stone and natural wood siding. The narrow wooded site is about 5 acres and has a steep cross slope from the north east corner to the south west corner.
When PMC approached Workstead to envision its new Raleigh headquarters, the contract furnishings company requested a new kind of office—a space that could not be summarily typecast as commercial, residential, or hospitality.
Our client, an avid outdoorsman and environmentalist, came to us with a unique piece of land within a red spruce forest on a mountain ridge at 5,700 feet elevation. The dense evergreen forest and high elevation create a microclimate and habitat that supports rare species of flora and fauna.
The Chatham Residence is conceived around the ideas of movement, light, and Zen. The retired owners desired an accessible home with changing experiences, one that would make them move throughout the whole house during the day.
The site of the project was at the edge of a steep slope located in Chapel Hill, NC. Imagined like a rock outcropping on the hillside, the home adopts a simple form mimicking the landscape. The roof tilts with the slope of the hillside and accentuates the drastic change in grade.
HUUS House was designed for a Swiss couple, one an eccentric electrical engineer and the other a German teacher, who has lived in Raleigh for thirty years. Their children are older and live far away. The program includes a ground-level guest suite to accommodate long stays they and other distant families make on a regular basis.
