Wadhams Residence
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Project Description:
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Size: 9500 SF
Challenge:
Solution:
This home draws its inspiration from the English Arts and Crafts movement of the late 1800’s. The home is perched on the edge of the Huron Valley, with broad views up and down the river. The L-shaped plan was designed to maximize the views, with a strolling gallery that runs the full length of the inside of the L, connecting all the living spaces on the main floor. This open floor plan allows for comfortable entertaining for groups up to 75. The garage is freestanding; maximizing the views in and out of the home, allowing light to the interior. The location of the garage was also designed to create traditional motor court/carriage house feel. Daily living spaces are located at the east end of the L, drawing the morning sun in to start the day.
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Three Lakes Lodge
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Project Description:
Location: West Branch, Michigan
Size: 6000 SF
Challenge:
A family retreat on 300 acres containing 3 lakes in northern Michigan that replaced a 1950’s hunting cabin on the same site.
Solution:
The retreat was designed to allow flexibility for large groups as well as for smaller family gatherings. There is a variety of bedroom configurations, a kitchen that can accommodate several for ’cooks’, and a dining room that can be arranged around 1 large table or two smaller tables. A variety of living spaces accommodate the ability to gather in groups or find “quiet time.” Large back-to-back fireplaces divide the living room from the dining/kitchen area, marking it the hearth of the main living areas.
Three Lakes Lodge replaces an old rundown fishing/hunting shack on this incredible site situated on a small peninsula of land that juts into a private lake. The architecture is simple and designed deliberately to appear as a collection of add-ons that might have grown over a time in the way that so many buildings have in the Great Lakes region. The material choices are also simple with all of the wood siding coming from locally harvested and environmentally managed forests.
The main dwelling is centered around a large volume that contains an open kitchen, dining and living space; all opening onto a screen porch that is cantilevered out over the lake. The beds are gathered in a bunkhouse arrangement along a gallery that forms a spine the entire length of the lodge.
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Roumanis Residence
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Project Description:
Location: Elia, Greece
Size: 1800 SF
Challenge:
A summer home for an American-Greek family, located close to ancestral homes in southern Greece. A space requirement of less than 2000 square feet, a variety of outdoor living spaces to enjoy the sublime Mediterranean climate, accommodations for the couple and their three children, the kitchen and dining areas to be in a single space and express the traditional role of cooking and dining as the heart of the home are the essence of the program. Local design codes required the use of traditional clay roof tiles and white or sand-colored walls.
Solution:
The home was conceived as a hillside "village". Living, cooking/eating and sleeping are expressed in three "pavilions", with separate roofs, all on different levels, stepping with the site's slope and all accessing terraces of different character. Arrival is inspired by the Acropolis. Flights of stairs, shifting axis, level changes, focused views, all reflect this inspiration. The experience of the site constantly changes. The Roman watchtower ruin is appropriately at the summit of the site and inspires scale and form of the new. Just prior to construction, the home next door began and was built illegally over its site boundary, forcing the original south-facing design to be rotated to the west!! We adapt!
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