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canal house

The Intracoastal Waterway runs along the east coast of the United States, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico and comprising many kinds of waterways.  This project sits on one of those waterways – the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal – in a coastal maritime forest with sandy dunes, and facing grassy marshes and perennial wetlands. 

The design agenda called for a sensitive response to climate and site. The house is sited to maximize views to the canal and wetlands, while providing a variety of protected and shaded exterior spaces. The form of the house is split by a glazed entry foyer, offering views along a continuous boardwalk from the streetside through the foyer to the canal and marsh.   

Creating a shaded place, saving all the trees on site, capturing yet sheltering from sun and breeze, maximizing views, creating habitat – these are some of the project’s sustainable strategies employed to decrease energy demand and enhance building-site synergies.  The project focuses on passive and active sustainable strategies in order to decrease energy demands and burden on the local utilities. By creating a strategically shaded, highly insulated building envelope, employing a geothermal system and an energy recovery ventilator, energy costs are minimized. Carefully positioned operable windows and skylights, including in the open, gabled stairway, allow for natural ventilation and take advantage of the stack effect.  The strategic location of shading devices – exterior solar shades and a trellis – rounds out the suite of passive approaches.  

The home is a home for the beach, not a suburban home transplanted to the beach.  The design recalls the traditions of the cabins that used to comprise this community.  The heart of the home is where the towels are! Spaces for circulation, gathering, and chance encounters of the extended family and friends who gather and hang about the inside and outsides spaces.   The kitchen bridges the interior and exterior, linking a porch with the living and dining areas.   Materials are matter of fact, rough-hewn, utilitarian.  A home for the grill, kayaks, laundry, outdoor showers, and beach storage were as important as spaces for sleeping, eating, and gathering.


treehouse

Residential building fabric is all too often razed in order to create new residential structures that maximize the zoning envelope, to the detriment of the neighborhood fabric and scale. 

By contrast the design approach for this project integrates analysis of typical characteristics of construction vis-a-vis the era of construction, building-site relationships, and sustainable strategies in order to join competing interests, save the building and preserve its role in the community. 

This house, built in the 1960s, faces south on a wooded lot in Bethesda, Mary- land. The house had limited and lifeless connections to its site, and a dearth of habitable spaces that adjoined the landscape.  
With excessive energy consumption, poor construction characteristic of its era compounded by considerable deterioration as the baseline condition in which we found the home, the house then suffered a major blow--burst pipes rendered the house uninhabitable. This last event prompted the owners to either raze or resuscitate their home. 

We implemented passive approaches for daylight and ventilation, a new vapor-managed building envelope, a state-of-the art insulation strategy, and updated high-efficiency mechanical systems.  
We stewarded the development of a masterplan that manages stormwater, creates habitat for indigenous species, and selectively embraces trees thereby preserving the quality of the community. Our strategy saved the existing building, preserve the site and the existing trees contributed to the preservation of the neighborhood history. 

The renovated home includes 25% increased fenestration with glazing type and area tuned towards exposure, and a new building envelope achieving a 35% improvement over the new International Green Construction Code code baseline. 

Bringing in daylight and natural cross ventilation, the new design maximizes the benefits of available sun in winter and abundant shade in summer provided by the wooded context while retaining the tie between house and site that inspired the original design. 

treehouse shed

Treehouse Shed is part of a masterplan that manages stormwater, creates habitat for indigenous species, and selectively embraces trees thereby preserving the quality of the community. Our strategy saved the existing building, preserve the site and the existing trees contributed to the preservation of the neighborhood history.

The Shed itself augments the existing building. Built without a garage, and without an amenity such as a walk-out basement, the house lacked the means for practical storage of maintenance equipment and other items. The homeowner desired a freestanding shed that would accommodate equipment such as garden hoses, tools, a wheelbarrow, and bicycles. The zoning restrictions on the site were strict; combined with the topography the Shed would have to be placed in what seemed like the front yard.

We designed the Shed to complement the house and shape an entry space. Combined with landscaping and terraced steps, the Shed is a welcoming pavilion in the landscape.



fifties split

This 50’s era split level on a small lot needed expanding for the owners’ pattern of living and improved spatial connections internally and to the site. The owners sought to update the house to a more modern state while preserving memories of its original character.  They hoped to connect the indoors to the out-of-doors, create spacious, flexible spaces for living and dining with views between spaces, and to make the kitchen the heart of the home. Describing themselves as “accidentally sustainable,” they wanted to pair their design goals with environmentally sound choices.

The first floor spaces were expanded and joined so that dining and gathering can occur “anywhere and everywhere.”  The kitchen became the nexus of all activity, joining the living and dining spaces on the first floor to the study/ loggia and entry hall on the half-level below.  The new living space is tall and spacious with terrace doors, windows, skylights and a light shelf on the south wall, welcoming in abundant cross ventilation and natural light.  The L-shaped addition embraces a new cypress deck that floats across a grass terrace to a stone wall and rock garden, creating a unifying transition to the outdoors. This main level addition and the second floor addition, perched as a treehouse, embrace the backyard and capture the traversing daylight.

Sustainably-minded smart envelope design, passive solar heating, natural ventilation, daylighting, radiant floor heat, high insulation values, water-saving fixtures, and low VOC/formaldehyde-free materials complete the balanced design.

bay house

Developed by Gardner Mohr Architects LLC, this project, near Annapolis, Maryland, began with an unremarkable 1980s brick rambler on a spectacular site overlooking the Chesapeake Bay.  The clients had two goals: to create views of the Bay from as many rooms as possible, and to build the most “green” house the budget would bear.   The project has achieved LEED Gold certification. 
		
Dramatic views from every room except the foyer and secondary baths were achieved with an open floor plan, large windows and a 2-story living room over which loft rooms have a view the Bay.  
		
The owner’s sustainability goals were met by using passive as well as active strategies. Passive strategies include ventilation, daylighting and shading controls.  Water conservation and harvesting are achieved through low-flow fixture selection, collection and reuse of rainwater, the infiltration of 100% of the storm water on site, and the construction of a “living shoreline” for breeding of aquatic life.  Materials were chosen for a minimal impact on the environment. 
	
Geothermal heat pumps provide cooling, radiant floor heating and domestic hot water.  A high-performance building envelope consists of an R-55 roof with a white membrane, R-36 vented rain screen walls and triple low-e coated window glass.  Energy Star appliances and lighting further help to reduce energy consumption, and a photovoltaic solar power plant provides electricity which can be consumed on site or “sold” back to the grid.    

coach house

Coachhouse comprises a two-story brick building that was originally constructed as a garage between 1907 and 1911.  It was historically associated with the adjacent mansion built in 1905, the rear of which is visible in the context photos. Coachhouse is situated on an alley and a major avenue -- Florida Avenue -- with a courtyard between the building and the street.
 
Measuring only approximately 25’ x 22’ in plan, the building is of robust load bearing masonry and wood frame construction.  It was converted to residential use and subdivided to be on its own lot prior to designation of the historic district in which it resides in the 1980s. 
 
The building is set back from the property line with its courtyard enclosed by a 6’ high brick wall; a second lower brick wall separated a parking space from the sidewalk. Coachhouse, in orientation and distance, is fully removed from the avenue on which it sits. Further, it has no rear yard nor windows on the rear property line, thus it is dependent on the alley and the avenue for light and view.
 
The building’s context is defined by the alley and rear elevations of large townhouses facing 22nd Street and R Street which range in height between three and five stories.  In its existing condition, Coachhouse was dwarfed by its context. 
 
Our client came to us with the goal of making Coachhouse their home.  Their program required one more floor.  Working through Zoning and the Historic Preservation Review Board, we gained permission to add one floor.  Design goals for Coachhouse included the following.  

1. Recall Coachhouse's allegiance to its neighbor by mirroring the neighbor’s configuration of solid mass and sleeping porch.  
2. Enhance the diminutive scale of Coachhouse in the neighborhood and on the avenue, and give it presence where it had little to none before.   
3. Create a home whose character marries its several identities — part coachhouse, raw and exposed; part repository for the homeowner’s extensive and eclectic object collections; and part modern sleeping porch.  
4. Bring light in along the west windowless party wall through the creation of a skylit stair zone.  
5. Address the foreground of Coachhouse with a redesigned courtyard, and drive.  
6.  Embrace a sustainable agenda including the adaptive reuse of the building, onsite stormwater management under the courtyard, an efficient building envelope, all LED lighting, and a green roof.  

Saltbox

This renovation and addition to a 1920’s era brick Cape Cod involved the addition of a second floor, and a thorough-going renovation to the first floor.  A landscape and hardscape plan rounded out the remaking of this home. 

A central stair core for this ”sustainable saltbox” was designed, around which the spaces of the house revolve.  The heart of this home is the stair space, with places to hang out, see and be seen, and through which light is brought into the home and reflected throughout.  

A new terraced landscape addressed issues of drainage, accessibility, a sense of place, repose, and view.  A new accessible path from street to garden through the house makes this path friendly to those in wheelchairs. 

Sustainable site strategies include water catchment in rain barrels and stormwater diverted to raingardens. The house includes a 4kw photovoltaic array, all LED lighting, an ERV, a 95% efficient combination tankless boiler and domestic hot water heater with modulating – condensing burner technology and two ultra-high efficiency air cooled condensers and matching indoor air handlers. The masonry envelope of the existing portions of the home were finished in lime-based paint, and the addition was a high-performing assembly, clad in stucco.  After blower door testing, the whole home building envelope performed at the level demanded of a new home by the 2015 IECC.

saltbox

forest house

Sitting on the edge of a forest conservation area, this house commands views deep into the forest, complemented by the sounds of a downhill stream on the property. The house reaches to the sky with a roof deck and stair tower.  Rain gardens, a geothermal system, high performance envelope, addressable low voltage lighting delivered over ethernet, stack effect ventilation, passive solar strategies, and panelized construction, all contribute to its sustainable footprint.

sixties solarium

This house, originally built in 1929 in Northwest Washington DC, was modified with 1969-era “solarium” additions.  The 1969 additions, though deteriorated and always too-hot or too-cold due to poor original construction, nonetheless offered wonderful daylit spaces and made strong connections between the house and the site, perched above Rock Creek Park.

The owners sought to embark on a thorough-going renovation and rehabilitation of the 1969 portions of the house.  Their goals included energy-conserving improvements focused on passive strategies for daylighting and ventilation, and updating the character and identity of the spaces while preserving their value and appeal.

The project includes new cladding, insulation and interior finishes, and mechanical system improvements featuring radiant floors.  Doors, windows and skylights were replaced with high-performance glazing and translucent wall and skylight systems.  The shape of the spaces allowed the design strategy to feature natural cross ventilation, drawing air in low and exhausting high through the eleven new skylights.

The orientation of the additions is north/south, allowing a special opportunity to design the door, window, skylight and translucent wall systems to reflect light throughout the lower and upper reaches of the space, with minimal reliance on light fixtures for daytime lighting.

craftsman teahouse

This renovation and addition to a 1920’s era bungalow is the story of the stewardship of    an existing resource from a state of aging into a “second life,” blending tradition and modernity in form and detail.

Sagging structural elements and a cascade of subsequent incremental failures such as leaking window heads and walls out-of-plumb necessitated the removal of the roof and second floor.  Although doubling the square footage of the house, the goal was to avoid “mansionization” and preserve the original intimate character of the house.  A garden addition and new second floor were configured under a new form-hugging roof that kept the original bungalow character, yet blended with the asian-modern sensibility that guided the design.

The front of the house preserves the bungalow character while hinting at the modern transformation on the garden side. A series of cross axes from front to rear provides a gradual transition from the cozy original living room to the light-filled and expansive garden rooms.  The kitchen, an integral part of the garden rooms, connects to dining, veranda, and a screened porch, all of which overlook a terraced garden.  Sky-lit upper floor rooms are tucked under the roof in front and open onto an airy balcony in the rear.

Sustainable design strategies included the reuse of the house as an existing resource; use of salvaged forest products and recycled roofing; careful choices about shading, orientation, and daylighting; high-efficiency lighting and hvac systems; and attention to indoor air and water quality.

big space little kids

Developed by Gardner Mohr Architects LLC, this project in Chevy Chase, Maryland was restricted by zoning to the small footprint of the existing structure.  The Owners needed more space for their growing family, and had as their central goal the creation of a vertical circulation zone that would link the upper and lower levels into one contiguous space for ease of raising 3 young children.

A central, skylit atrium was created which allows easy visual and verbal communication between levels, from the kitchen to the upstairs nursery and from the family room to the master bedroom above.  A spacious central hall provides ample space for gathering, circulating, tri-cycling and ball bouncing.  An outdoor deck provides additional recreational space while enjoying a view of the neighborhood.

The owners, who were also the contractors, used reclaimed and regional woods throughout the interior and exterior of the house.  They selected renewable cementitious siding and shingles on the exterior for their ease of maintenance, durability and environmentally sustainable qualities.

tropical craftsman

Developed by Gardner Mohr Architects LLC, this c.1917 four-square Shingle Style house sits on a double lot in Chevy Chase, Maryland.  An eclectic assortment of craftsman windows, saw-tooth shingle siding and interior chestnut trim inspired the rebirth of its Craftsman-at-heart self.  The 4-story addition was designed to defer to the stately presence of the original front entry porch while at the same time minimize its size in order to keep the house in scale and harmony with its early 20th century neighborhood.  Old windows were carefully refurbished and original interior trim was restored to preserve the character of the old house.

The program called for the removal of two old rear additions to make way for a new kitchen, a library which also serves as a dining room, a master bedroom suite above and an outdoor lanai, or covered porch.  On the first floor a central, light-filled loggia connects the old with the new and merges the house with the garden.  The kitchen is the central hearth, with warm furnishings, an abundance of south light and easy connections to the lanai, garden, family room and library-dining room. On the second floor the new master bedroom suite includes spacious and calming places for bathing, dressing and sleeping, and enjoys both a panoramic view to the rear garden and a winking eyebrow window to the front.

alley house

urban townhouse terrace

This c, 1900 townhouse in Washington, DC has a wonderful connection to the public street, but unlike many period rowhouses of its ilk, it does not have the typical rowhouse garden giving onto a rear alley.  Rather, this house abuts the rear alley with a non-conforming-to-code, two-story masonry structure containing a structurally deteriorated storage area with an unsound roof deck above.

With many zoning and code constraints guiding possible options, the goals were to: re-build the masonry structure in-kind; create a tiny urban garden that extends the interior living room to the out-of-doors; introduce passive solar strategies to admit and control daylight; and create a private urban alley-side roof garden.

The solution was to screen the roof terrace with a steel and mahogany trellis, a manufactured planting “wall”, and integral bench/planter.  A retractable canvas sunshade protects the terrace from the western sun, thereby satisfying the need for a garden, shade and privacy.

in the garden II

Landscape Design by Jane Leigh Luce,            http://www.handd.com/Portfolio/directory/jane-leigh-luce-listing-712.aspx. 

Inspired by the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods in Japanese vernacular traditions, this porch sits in a landscape of gravel and stone "river beds" and lavish plantings.  The porch is linked to the house by a bridge spanning one of the "river beds".  

The structure is a hybrid of current conventional timber framing, and the mortise-and-tenon inspired joinery of the Japanese precedents that guided the design.  

Metal framed "super screens' obviate the need for interstitial framing, and thereby highlighting the post-and-beam character of the porch. 

deckhouse

This project involved the renovation of an 80’s era Deckhouse. Opening up spaces to each other, and reconfiguring the entry and master suite comprised the major moves that addressed the owners’ goals. Modern finishes and fixtures complement the existing post and beam timber frame and exposed wood roof decking. Connections to the landscape were enhanced by opening up the interior spaces to each other and to the out-of-doors.

cove overlook

This project on a cove leading to Spa Creek and subsequently to the Chesapeake Bay involved a thorough-going renovation to an early twentieth century cape cod style home, and an addition overlooking the cove.  

The renovation and addition were designed for aging-in-place.  The single story addition features a “covered dock” porch, with a master suite giving onto the “covered dock”.  and connecting back through the house via a gallery.  

Simplicity governed each decision and move, with the kitchen becoming the heart of the home.  

A new energy-efficient building envelope, geothermal heat pump, onsite stormwater management in the form of raingardens, and passive daylighting and ventilation strategies round out the design approach.

Whittier

This project for the new construction of a detached single-family home in Washington DC, comprises an attached 2nd story ADU; a sensitive approach to the neighborhood while maximizing the use of the tight urban lot and maintaining areas for gardening, dog runs, and gathering; universal design for the first floor; a high-performance envelope, and passive and active sustainable strategies including a 9kW solar PV system.   

whittier

porches make good neighbors

This renovation and addition to a 1920’s era brick center-hall home involved the conversion of an old screen porch and garage into a three-season room that also engaged a new front porch.  Sliding windows open up the three-season room to the out-of-doors.  Dimensional lumber framing, patinated copper wainscot panels, patinated copper railing pickets provide the details that enliven the facade of this home.

copper steel & cherry

This project was the result of a collaboration with Washington DC artist, sculptor Frederick L. Wall.  It involved renovating this freestanding fireplace using ordinary materials in extraordinary ways in order to highlight the hearth and its role as both joiner and separator between the living and dining rooms.

The fireplace and the tall niche are framed with cherry columns that taper downward. The mantel is a walnut and steel “sandwich” while the niche on the opposing side is filled with glass shelves over a blackened steel panel. Behind the glass niche shelves is a panel of plywood covered with diamond- shaped “tiles” of copper foil, the same composition of materials which forms the mantel panel over the fireplace. The foil is chemically treated to produce varying hues seen in the photographs.

bookmobile

This small northwest DC apartment had two particular problems which needed solving simultaneously:  the need for a library to accommodate a book collection numbering in the thousands, and the need to make “walls” appear and disappear on demand.  The solution was to create a library in which the architecture becomes furniture, and the furniture becomes architecture.  A wall was removed between the dining room and study, allowing the rolling library shelves to become the primary space makers for the two rooms.  The shelves can be arranged to create multiple bookshelf configurations and to allow for different levels of privacy or openness.  Even a closet was turned into a connecting library alcove behind a moving shelf unit.  The rolling units are mounted on wheels, and are guided by an overhead track, allowing them to act with ease as both sliding walls and doors.

uptown flat

Photography by Ken Wyner

2101 Connecticut Avenue (c.1928), an 8-story brick and limestone Beaux Arts style building with spacious apartments, is said to have been “the finest apartment house to appear in Washington between the two World Wars.” (James M. Goode, Best Addresses, 1988.)  As advertised for rent in 1928, the apartments were designed “to incorporate many details that would aid the residents in establishing a home atmosphere, one possessing charm and dignity usually found only in a private house… the character and tenancy (being) assured through careful selection of guests.”  Home to Senators, Ambassadors, a Vice President and a Supreme Court Justice as well as numerous Washington socialites, the building still stands as one of the undisputed “best addresses” in Washington, DC.)

So well laid-out was this gracious 3,000 sf apartment that the basic floor plan of this apartment remains unchanged from the original architect’s 1927 design. For the renovation developed by Gardner Mohr Architects LLC,  the organizing feature was, and continues to be, the grand “gallery” space in the center of the unit.  Every room in the apartment can be accessed via the gallery, thus preserving it as the centerpiece of the “charm and dignity” which the original design intended.  Programmatic modifications consisted of the addition of a small powder room off of the foyer, and the conversion of a corner “sun room” into a room for meditation and study.  The apartment received a thorough updating of all systems, services and finishes, including a new kitchen and new bathrooms, several new built-in cabinetry units, and the consolidation of numerous small closets and passageways into more accessible and efficient storage spaces. 

spa-in-a-box

Developed by Gardner Mohr Architects LLC, this 6 foot by 9 foot co-op bathroom (c. 1930) needed a make-over.  Due to structural and budget limitations it could not be expanded, so the only solution was to create the illusion of expansion.  By attaching off-the-rack hardwood shelves to the 10-foot high ceiling and placing a mirror at the far end of the room we changed the perception of the size and proportion of the room without moving any walls. The pebbled shower pays homage to water as the essential element in the room and the suspended shower curtain serves double duty by keeping the floor dry and providing a privacy screen for the toilet area. The old radiator doubles as a towel warmer, and six dimmable 150w light bulbs in porcelain utility fixtures provide lighting for any mood.

net zero home I

Urban Green’s net-zero energy home in Mount Rainier, MD is an Energy Star certified, modular home with an open floor plan, bamboo floors and passive solar benefits. This “Net-Zero Energy” home generates more energy than it consumes saving its homeowner $4,000/year in utilities using a 6.5 kW rooftop solar array, super-insulated thermal envelope, water use reduction features, LED lighting and advanced HVAC + hot-water systems. Just steps from public transportation and only 1 block from the DC border, this home has set the standard for high-performance, next-generation housing in the Washington, DC metro region. (Note - the architect-of-record for this project is Wiencek & Assoc DC LLP.  Gardner Architects LLC was the design consultant to the project.)

MODbath

This bathroom was carved out of a mudroom in a Chicago-style bungalow in Atlanta, Georgia.  The goal was to create a bathroom space that blended the indoors with the outdoors.  Even in this tiny bathroom, natural light and materials evoke the out-of-doors and extend the sense of connection to nature, while also making the room feel more spacious.  Primarily slate, maple, and glass, the natural materials create a sense of being in an outdoor shower.

The vanity top is a glass lavatory counter top, allowing the space to extend from wall-to-wall.  Flanking seven-foot-tall cabinets of maple and glass support the tempered glass counter top, and a stainless steel sink bowl is set within the glass.

For maximum daylight, the skylight well tapers from the flat ceiling up to the glass in the gabled roof.   Ceiling joists extending through the well are wrapped in maple, creating the sense of a pergola emerging from the ceiling and filtering the sunlight into the bathroom below.

in the garden

porch perch

Developed by Gardner Mohr Architects LLC.  

edgewater LEED factsheet

Developed by Gardner Mohr Architects LLC, this project, near Annapolis, Maryland, began with an unremarkable 1980s brick rambler on a spectacular site overlooking the Chesapeake Bay. The clients had two goals: to create views of the Bay from as many rooms as possible, and to build the most “green” house the budget would bear. The project has achieved LEED Gold certification. 

The owner’s sustainability goals were met by using passive as well as active strategies. Passive strategies include ventilation, daylighting and shading controls. Water conservation and harvesting are achieved through low-flow fixture selection, collection and reuse of rainwater, the infiltration of 100% of the storm water on site, and the construction of a “living shoreline” for breeding of aquatic life. Materials were chosen for a minimal impact on the environment.

Geothermal heat pumps provide cooling, radiant floor heating and domestic hot water. A high-performance building envelope consists of an R-55 roof with a white membrane, R-36 walls and triple low-e coated window glass. Energy Star appliances and lighting further help to reduce energy consumption, and a photovoltaic solar power plant provides electricity which can be consumed on site or “sold” back to the grid.

LEED Gold Home

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*Special Credit:  Bay House, Big Space Little Kids, and Tropical Craftsman were developed by Gardner Mohr Architects LLC.   For Net Zero I, Gardner Architects LLC was the architectural consultant; the Architect-of-Record is Wiencek &amp; Associates DC LLP, with artwork and photography courtesy Urban Green LLC.  Treehouse, Saltbox, Coach House, and Canal House landscape architecture by Jordan Honeyman. Photography:  Craftsman Teahouse unless otherwise noted — Celia Pearson.  Craftsman Teahouse  Hall Bathroom as noted — Morgan Howarth.  Craftsman Teahouse select close-up details as noted — Amy Gardner.  Cove Overlook — Celia Pearson.  Canal House, Forest House, Coach House, Saltbox — John Cole.  Fifties Split, Treehouse, Sixties Solarium — Jim Tetro.   Bay House — Ken Wyner.  Tropical Craftsman — Alan Karchmer.

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