Form and function
This client wanted to get a concept for an addition to their home. They had several goals:
Add a new garage (since they converted their original garage to a Great Room) with space for a future upstairs apartment. This garage would connect to the main house with a breezeway.
The front yard had watershed issues, so landscape design was needed to divert water, and to create a walkway connecting the driveway, breezeway, and main entrance.
The main entrance needed a creative facelift, and the client had a specific idea in mind (and a great idea, at that!).
Below is a photo of the original main entrance and front of the house.
Here's another photo from the rear of where the new garage and breezeway would be.
One of my main objectives was to create a seamless appearance between the original home and the addition, while still creating an interesting design. A peeve of mine is ill-conceived additions that do injustice to the original structures by not considering fundamental design principles.
The client also wanted to shift from the red/brown color scheme to a red/black scheme, so that's also reflected in the 3d renders below.
The large gravel landscaped "swoop" in the front yard is designed to catch watershed from the street and divert it downhill to a ditch. It creates an organic flow to the entrances while also providing opportunity for intentional garden accents.
The new main entry includes a rounded copper-colored roof that sets it apart from the red/black and straight line themes.
The bold face of the new garage breaks up the faces of red siding while still feeling cohesive to the overall style and color scheme. The roof line and slope match the adjacent roof, but the offset position helps to add interest, and reduced an otherwise dark pocket behind the breezeway.
Full lite (glass) doors on both the front and back of the breezeway allow light to penetrate, and along with the sliding doors, alludes to this space being a hub of coming and going for this active home.
Finally, the rear of the garage becomes utility and wood storage for campfires, and to provide access to and from the back deck.
Ultimately, the client ran into the construction materials inflation boom, and had to pause the project. But they love the design, and are still hoping to get back to it someday.
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