“Pivoting refers to the doors on this addition and remodel, but it was also a response to the pandemic and how we use outdoor spaces,” explains architect Christopher Tucker, AIA. “We had to stop and pivot in a different direction on this project. At first, we had designed a more interior space.” 

Ultimately, the scope was expanded into a retrofit of an attached garage and its adjacent gravel parking pad into a dining room that opens onto a courtyard garden and entertaining space. A new garage, studio space, and carport were also added, with the carport flexing as an event pavilion. Those pivot doors open the carport to the courtyard or stay closed to conceal the cars within. 

Said our judges, “It creates this wonderful courtyard out of this liminal space and pulls all of these other spaces into it with a level of porosity that’s very well done. It’s all about the leftover space and how they captured that.”

Citation

Custom Outdoor Living Design

Mode4 Architecture

Pivoting

Bethesda, Maryland

Project Credits

Architect: Christopher Tucker, AIA, Mode4 Architecture, Alexandria, Virginia

Builder: Steve Howard, Square One Development, Hagerstown, Maryland

Landscape Architect: SPD Landscape Studio, Silver Spring, Maryland

Project Size: 5,000  square feet

Site Size: 0.66 acre

Construction Cost: $600 per square foot

Photography: Anice Hoachlander

Key Products

Garage Doors: Clopay

Pivot Doors: Mahogany and steel, custom design by Christopher Tucker and Kenneth Lopez, Mode4

Pivot Door Hinges: FritsJurgens

Window/Window Wall Systems: Western Window Systems 

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As a protected wetlands, the construction challenges onsite were myriad. “We had to bring everything in on a 15-foot flat bottom boat, and the demo material had to go out that way as well,” says principal Troy Miller. The team salvaged most of the existing steel piles and lifted the new structure above the flood plain. A storage shed below is “designed to flood” because, says Troy, “that’s unavoidable.” 

Part screened porch and part aerie, The Roost has lived up to its name, attracting owls who hunt along the waterway. Everyone, it seems, enjoys the shelter it now provides from the hot Texas sun. “Shade is such a privilege here sometimes,” Troy notes. “That’s what the project was doing—creating shade without being closed off to the environment around it.”

Citation

Custom Outdoor Living Design

Furman + Keil

The Roost

Austin, Texas

Project Credits

Architect: Troy Miller; Phillip Keil; Gary Furman; Maanasa Nathan; Dawson Williams, Furman + Keil, Austin, Texas

Builder: Crowell Builders, Austin

Landscape Architect: Word + Carr Design Group, Austin

Lighting Design: Studio Lumina, Austin

Project Size: 880 square feet

Site Size: 0.80 acre

Construction Cost: Withheld

Photography: Leonid Furmansky

Key Products

Ceiling Fans: Modern Fan. Co.

Cladding/Decking: Ipe

Flooring/Roofing: Douglas fir

Door Hardware: Baldwin

Lighting Control: Lutron

Paints/Stains: Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams

Pavers: Lueders limestone

Refrigerator: Summit

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