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.
Nestled in the slope of a picturesque pond-side acreage, the Blue Dog Residence is for a young family seeking to enjoy the natural beauty of rural North Carolina.
The National Craft Innovation Hub was created with the intention of providing office, event, and gallery space for creative collaboration among artists, researchers, curators and other members of the community.
Recently retired, the owners of this modern mountain home overlooking Bull Creek, outside of Asheville, wanted a home that would offer refuge from their working lives – somewhere quiet, minimalistic and connected with nature.
The Yamato Philbeck Residence is located at the edge of a deep ravine, between the forest and a suburban street. Four site walls create a perch for the main volume of the house – a spare box with articulated roof forms.
Located on a unique extra-long ocean-front parcel on a barrier island, the Figure Eight Island Beach House perches lightly among the dunes and live oaks. The home’s massing is sculpted by the breezes- open to cooling summer breezes from the South, while blocking the chilling winter gusts from the North.
