Project Details
- Project Name
- Singh Hoysted Live/Work
- Project Types
- Single Family
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Year Completed
- 2013
- Awards
- 2015 AIA Maryland Honor Award
- Shared by
- Selin Ashaboglu
- Team
- Mark McInturff FAIA, Colleen Gove Healey
- Consultants
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Structural Engineer: Neubauer Consulting Engineers / Robert Neubauer,General Contractor: Added Dimensions / Richard Hazboun
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
FROM THE AIA MARYLAND:
This infill house includes a generous studio for an
artist who works in mixed media. We were
excited by the idea of a house and studio overlapping so that each part reveals
itself to the other in multiple ways, interlocking home and work. The house is conceived of as a block, with
one quadrant carved out to create a courtyard, resulting in an L-shaped plan.
Like the rest of the house, the courtyard is part house and part outdoor work
space, allowing for dinner parties among the works in progress. On the exterior, the parts that conform to
the block are white and have simply placed openings. The L-shaped courtyard
walls are black, with irregularly placed openings, as if to suggest that the
creativity of the work in the studio is bursting out of the rationality of the
house. Joining the live/work function is a stair rising through the house in
half levels, with openings, large and small, that frame vistas as one moves
between house and studio.
