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Expand a classic of the fifty years modern House Posted: 10 May 2013 01:53 PM PDT Kenneth e.: Hobgood architects in Raleigh has completed the renovation of a modern home recently in the middle of the century at Durham and is related to the construction of phase two begin: a 1200 square foot addition is the honor, without to mimic the original House. If the company produced the new owners to renovate and expand the House 2337 square feet, which developed architect Kenneth Scott, AIA, in 1958, the design team immediately recognized the challenges. “We knew that he on the basis of respect for the House difficult”, architect for the project said Bob Thomas, AIA, Director of the Cabinet. “It was a renovation project, no recovery, so she must the requirements of a family of five people, including three young children, and to the lifestyle in the 1950s to today changes”. That is why we find a balance between the opening space transform the Interior still respectfully. “In connection with add:” it was difficult and interesting at a House add, respect we so much without imitating or repeating, what is it that “, said Kenneth: Hobgood, FAIA, principal.”We knew that the idea was to come from the existing House of materials, the scale and the choice of the location. Also, we knew that we be very careful, because the new owners hope, had to have the House as a historic property. According to Thomas, the participating of the century renovation, preserve the foundations of the middle house accommodation and entry closed court, the floor, cross-shaped footprint plan organization and Planar home language (interior of brick aircraft defined), in expanding the kitchen and home to current building codes. By moving a staircase in the House, which once in the cellar, is the company not only bigger kitchen, but literally the Centre of the House. This enabled even the walls make the kitchen, remove a closed and visually which connect the rest of typical for modern living design living spaces. “Unless we act, we are more than a more modern house”, says Thomas. Living room, a glass-serious room with view on the bridge outside converted into deep eaves of the House, easily affected was, he said.”Others, that is cosmetic enhancements, the Salon is perfect.” We could do everything for the better. » The original House is organized so that the rooms on the South side, are oriented Street on the north side of Hall East-West axis/traffic. A corridor leading to the Chambers Gallery has a wall of glass with a view to the Court. In addition, this organizational plan, including a gallery of glass-serious will continue. This gallery, but also a bridge 25 metres in length between the old House and the addition of new, according to the model of the traffic and the original East-West axis. “We talked about the owners through the purchase of the adjacent property, so we add could leave some distance between the House and the”, as Thomas. “The Bridge enables us to emulate the old House because he not grafted from the original, is separated”. It takes the orientation in the plan and materials, for the most part, Kenneth Scott design. Still, it will provide physical and visual clarity between old and new. The bridge, the addition includes a suite of capital, guest room and the cellar of a bedroom and 36 feet long, 8 feet, 8-inch-wide Office of Mark Hansen, off the coast of the amount of cantilevered which is North of the addition. “Office is plane and materials of the original, the only real departure,” said Thomas. “It is a separate object fleet over the landscape in a box cantilevered field dark metal, anodized, to form a tunnel” in the East and West, with the exception of a slim, floor to ceiling window. The north face are all glass with it built in mark counter. The south wall is on the shelves to accommodate the large collection of books mark. » Thomas provides the addition of complete take about a year.

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