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Woung House

elegant modern contemporary creative architect home in asheville nc

architect home modernist contemporary industrial high end house asheville nc buncombe county

info

Location: Charlotte, NC ● Year: 2015

status

Moved In ● Published

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details

4 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths, Sitting Room 1 Guest Apartment, 2 Car Garage, 2,960 sf

sustainability

Solar Gain Mitigation, Tree Conservancy

the story

A wall she walked by in her childhood in Jamaica was the memory she brought to us. The need to make it handicap accessible and to provide a live-in suite over the garage was added; as well as the wish to keep as many trees as possible.

So we surveyed the woods, cut up the functions of the house, weaved a wall through the trees, and reassembled the house all around it. And then we traced the movements through the house and provided views at every turn, inviting the exterior back in. We took a long look at the topography, exposed concrete floors on solid ground, and wood floors over shallow crawl spaces and engineered zero-edge transitions, provided for 3 foot wide doors and 5 foot turning radii, to make the home a playground for a wheelchair.