2012 AIA Housing Awards for Architecture
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the 10 recipients of the 2012 Housing Awards. The AIA’s Housing Awards Program, now in its 12th year, was established to recognize the best in housing design and promote the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit and a valuable national resource.
Continue after the break to view the 2012 recipients.
Crab Creek House / Robert Gurney Architect
Architect: Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect
Location: Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Project Architect: Brian Tuskey, Associate AIA
Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Hoachlander Davis Photography
Jacobson Carriage House / Robert Gurney Architect
Architect: Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect
Location: Mineral, Virginia
Project Architect: Brian Tuskey, Associate AIA
Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Hoachlander Davis Photography
Peterson Residence / Robert Gurney Architect
Architect: Robert M. Gurney, FAIA
Location: Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
Project Architect: Claire L. Andreas
Contractor: Peterson and Collins Inc.
Interior Designer: Therese Baron Gurney, ASID
Landscape Architect: Lila Fendrick Landscape
Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Maxwell MacKenzie Architectural Photographer
Watergate Apartment / Robert Gurney Architect
The Watergate complex, in Washington DC consists of five buildings sited on ten acres overlooking the Potomac River and was built between 1963 and 1972. Designed by Italian Architect Luigi Moretti, the Watergate is considered one of Washington’s most desirable addresses.
This 1,250 square foot unit is located on the fourteenth floor and was never previously renovated. Compartmentalized spaces with ceiling heights less than 8’-4” high presented the perception of a low horizontal environment. Offsetting these less than optimal existing conditions are spectacular views along the Potomac River looking toward the landmark Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Architects: Robert Gurney Architect
Location: Washington DC, USA
Project Architect: Sarah Mailhot
Contractor: Added Dimensions
Interiors: Baron Gurney Interiors
Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
Photographs: Maxwell MacKenzie Architectural Photographer
Wissioming Residence / Robert Gurney Architect
This house located in Glen Echo, Maryland is sited on a heavily wooded lot overlooking the Potomac River. Glen Echo stands as a rare enclave of modern houses in suburban Washington, DC. The new house occupies the footprint of a pre-existing house in an effort to minimally disturb the site, removing no mature hardwoods in the process. A new swimming pool is suspended twenty feet above grade to further reduce the impact to the steeply sloping site.
Architects: Robert Gurney Architect
Location: Glen Echo, Maryland, USA
Project Architect: Brian Tuskey
Contractor: Bloom Builders
Interior Designer: Therese Baron Gurney, ASID
Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
Photographs: Maxwell MacKenzie Architectural Photographer
Lorber Tarler Residence / Robert Gurney Architect
Located in the Mount Vernon Square neighborhood of Washington DC, an existing row house has been reimagined as a modern, light filled urban dwelling for a professional couple. The compartmentalized interior of the existing house was gutted, and the rear façade and porch were removed. Surrounded by buildings on three sides and limited to the existing seventeen foot wide by thirty foot deep footprint, the new floor layout and open plan are intended to provide dynamic interior spaces in sharp contrast to the originally dark, cramped house.
Architects: Robert Gurney Architect
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Project Architect: Brian Tuskey
Contractor: Prill Construction
Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
Interior Designer: Baron Gurney Interiors
Photographs: Paul Warchol Photography
Blue Ridge Farmhouse Addition / Robert Gurney Architect
Standing prominently on a hilltop just outside Washington, Virginia, the eighteenth century farmhouse is surrounded by five hundred acres of farmland providing vantage point views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The owners desired an addition to their beloved farmhouse that would bring the outside in and enable them to share the landscape and its changing seasons with friends and family. In addition to entertaining, the owners, who enjoy gardening and horseback riding, required an area to clean up after days spent outdoors. It was also their experience of entry and threshold, both in the daily utilitarian sense and in a more occasional formal sense, which needed to be clarified.
Architects: Robert Gurney Architect
Location: Washington, Virginia, USA
Project Architect: Hito Martinez
Engineer: D. Anthony Beale
Interior Designer: Ed Perlman
General Contractor: M.T. Puskar Construction Co., Inc.
Photographers: Paul Warchol Photography, Ken Gutmaker Architectural Photography
Harkavy Residence / Robert Gurney Architect
This house of 2,900 sqf is located on a one acre, wooded lot, adjacent to park land outside of Washington, DC. The house is sited away from the road and oriented toward views deep into the woods. The sequence of entry is defined by a series of walls, intended to privatize and delineate the approach and entry into the house. The walls, garage volume and house become a threshold between the road and the wooded parkland.
Architects: Robert M. Gurney
Location: Potomac, Maryland, USA
Project Architect: Brian Tuskey
Contractor: John Thompson
Interior Designer: Therese Baron Gurney, ASID
Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
Project Area: 2,900 sqf
Photographs: Anice Hoachlander | HD Photo
Lujan House / Robert Gurney Architect
In an effort to integrate living spaces with the outdoors while maintaining privacy from Burbage Lane and neighboring houses, the scheme is organized around a centrally located garden. With sixteen foot high ceilings, the eastern volume contains the public living spaces. Continuous clerestory windows assist in providing an abundance of natural light into the space, allowing views to the treetops and sky while minimizing the close proximity of the adjacent houses. A twenty foot wide glass wall slides into a pocket, enhancing the relationship to the outdoors, and provides a sense of living in a garden. The two story western volume is comprised of bedrooms and a small second floor living space. A one story glass link connects the volumes and visually opens to the central garden.
Architects: Robert Gurney Architect
Location: Ocean View, Delaware, USA
Project Architect: Claire L. Andreas
Contractor: Gude and Conard, Inc.
Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
Interior Designer: Baron Gurney Interiors
Landscape Designer: JB Landscaping
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Anice Hoachlander|HD Photo
Hampden Lane House / Robert Gurney Architect
Located in the Edgemoore community of Bethesda, the client for this project was a young, forward thinking entrepreneur with no desire for a nostalgic or revivalist style house. Rather, the client desired a house that was efficient and with a minimal footprint, leaving the majority of the lot unoccupied by building and hardscape.
More photographs and drawings following the break.
Architects: Robert Gurney Architect
Location: Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Project Architect: Brian Tuskey
Contractor: John Thompson
Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
Project Area: 2,200 sqf
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Maxwell MacKenzie Architectural Photographer
Town House / Robert Gurney Architect
Built like its neighbors, over a century ago and part of a continuous network of buildings in a historical district, this town house has been completely renovated. Regulations required that the traditional limestone facade remain intact. The bottom floor of the facade has been reworked within the existing limestone composition in an effort to provide a separate entrance and storefront for a commercial tenant in the lower level. The rear facade, located in an alley has been completely reworked to provide more light into the building.
Architects: Robert Gurney Architect
Location: Washington DC, USA
Project Architect: John Riordan
Contractor: Prill Construction
Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Paul Warchol Photography
Buisson Residence / Robert Gurney Architect
The journey down a winding road and thru a pine tree forest ends at the Buisson Residence. Situated on a grass knoll and commanding views of Lake Anna in central Virginia, the house emerges as a long, white painted brick wall with a copper clad volume cantilevered above the wall.
Follow the break for more photographs and drawings or Buisson Residence designed by Robert Gurney Architect.
Architects: Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect
Location: Lake Anna, Virginia, USA
Project Architect: Claire L. Andreas
Contractor: Loudin Building Systems
Interior Designer: Therese Baron Gurney, ASID
Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Paul Warchol Photography, Maxwell MacKenzie Architectural Photographer
