A growing family of four required more space within which to live and entertain. In addition to the added spaces, the family had an interest in having a strong and symbiotic connection between the interior living spaces and the exterior spaces of their property.rnBy locating most of the additional program on the second level, the site's open space is retained. Interior/ exterior relationships are strengthened between existing programs adjacent to the exterior and established where those programs previously had no relationship to the site.rnThe formal strategy involved making a legible distinction between the existing 60's ranch house and the new addition. This was achieved primarily by "draping" the roof surface over the second story addition to the ground floor programs. This surface is further differentiated from the existing stucco finish with painted corrugated metal that maintains its grain as it wraps down wall surfaces.
A growing family of four required more space within which to live and entertain. In addition to the added spaces, the family had an interest in having a strong and symbiotic connection between the interior living spaces and the exterior spaces of their property.rnBy locating most of the additional program on the second level, the site's open space is retained. Interior/ exterior relationships are strengthened between existing programs adjacent to the exterior and established where those programs previously had no relationship to the site.rnThe formal strategy involved making a legible distinction between the existing 60's ranch house and the new addition. This was achieved primarily by "draping" the roof surface over the second story addition to the ground floor programs. This surface is further differentiated from the existing stucco finish with painted corrugated metal that maintains its grain as it wraps down wall surfaces.