The client’s existing home is a 1940’s Cape Cod style house. The City of Portland requires that ADU’s match the existing house details such as the roof pitch, window proportions and siding material. The design of Garden House matches these, but re-imagines them into a unique form, as opposed to simply being a copy. This new structure has the iconic silhouette form of a “house” yet is abstracted into a distilled and pure sculptural form.
Garden House materials include regionally procured maple plywood paneling and cabinets on the ground level.
Garden House, Portland, Oregon
Program: house-in-a-backyard
Architects: Waechter Architecture
Area: 75 sqm
Completion: 2015