Highland House
To blend a growing family lifestyle with contemporary aesthetic, we developed a plan that maintains the current scale and footprint by introducing more open spaces and more notable collaboration with the property’s landscape.
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By adding only 200 square feet, clarifying the circulation sequence, repurposing an upper floor deck, and introducing a new ground floor outdoor area, we established a cohesive plan to better connect the home to its context. This streamlined logic was then applied to all interior and exterior detailing so the house reads as a whole upon completion, unlike it did originally. We then developed a phase two garage structure, exporting the same design sensibility first developed for the house. To lessen the new structure’s visual impact on the backyard spaces, we introduced a plant-covered wall to camouflage the lower part of the structure and blend it into the landscape.
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