Project Details
- Project Name
- Copeland Hill Cottages At The Greenbrier Resort
- Location
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WV ,United States
- Project Types
- Custom
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 3,000 sq. feet
- Shared by
- Editor
- Consultants
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Christophe Drumain,Dolan Pollack & Schram,General Contractor: Richard Swift,Landscape Architect: Christophe Drumain,Interior Designer: Linda Carr,Mick Hales
- Project Status
- Built
- Room or Space
- Other
- Style
- Traditional
Project Description
2003 RADA
Single-Family Production / Detached / Merit
Our judges praised the Copeland Hill Cottages development for its pedestrian-friendly neighborhood design and for architecture that "doesn't over-style itself." Nestled in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia, the cottages are part of the Greenbrier expansion plan, which sought to build 35 four-bedroom cottages within walking distance of the resort's main structure. Ferguson Shamamian & Rattner Architects executed the plan.
Rather than impose a rigid grid on the small parcel, the architects clustered the homes within the site's varying topography, augmenting the plan with meandering roads and footpaths, says project architect Donald M. Rattner.
"We were operating within a historical framework, so it was important for the architecture to be consistent," says Rattner, who has since left FS&R and launched his own New York City-based firm, Studio for Civil Architecture. As a result, the cottages echo the hotel's classical Georgian architecture, but vernacular details such as clapboard siding and wood porches are also evident.
This is a "fresh take on a vernacular house," said the judges. "It looks like a nice place to walk around."
