wood frame house

Halfway Hill House by Woodford Architecture

Halfway Hill House / Woodford Architecture

May 13, 2021 / Contemporary Houses

Halfway Hill House is a 950ft² two-storey wood frame house perched upon a steeply sloping site in Port Rexton on the Bonavista Peninsula of Newfoundland, Canada. Compact and energy efficient, this small house was designed to provide large views of Trinity Bay in the North Atlantic Ocean.

A Wood Frame Townhouse in Brooklyn Renovated by BFDO Architects

April 11, 2018 / Barker Associates Architecture Office / BAAO Architects, Contemporary Houses

This 20-foot-wide wood frame townhouse, located at the end of a row along a narrow side yard, had existing front and rear extensions. The building volume was selectively manipulated—in some cases through addition, in others through subtraction—to improve room sizes, sequences and adjacencies.