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Architects: Shimizu + Coggeshall Architects
- Year: 2010
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Photographs:Joshua White Photography
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![25th Street Residence / Shimizu + Coggeshall Architects - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5015/aeab/28ba/0d5a/4b00/09b3/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414408415)
The project hinges on the following main ideas: the first was to insert a LEED platinum contemporary renovation into a 1920’s structure in a way that would contrast and complement. Small unused spaces were reconfigured by expanding them for a multiplicity of programs.
![25th Street Residence / Shimizu + Coggeshall Architects - Windows, Beam, Deck](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5015/ae9e/28ba/0d5a/4b00/09b1/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1414408412)
Connections with the exterior were set up where every space has a unique relationship to the outside; sometimes framing a view, sometimes blurring the boundary between inside and out.The street elevation scale was preserved while the entry and site were designed to promote neighborhood interaction on a corner in a highly walkable area.
![25th Street Residence / Shimizu + Coggeshall Architects - Sofa, Table](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5015/ae79/28ba/0d5a/4b00/09ac/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414408422)
Strategies to reduce demand include improved daylighting, 90% high efficacy lighting, and relocating openings. Additional sustainable issues for this project combined passive and active technologies: radiators fed by a high efficiency boiler, solar water heating, improved existing envelope, greater water efficiency, rainwater harvesting, phase changing drywall, and photovoltaics.
![25th Street Residence / Shimizu + Coggeshall Architects - Table, Wood, Chair, Windows, Beam, Bedroom](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5015/aece/28ba/0d5a/4b00/09b7/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414408434)
Simultaneously, there was a material agenda that not only contrasted new from old but re-used materials on site: beams became benches and counters became fountains. Salvaged walnut slabs became a counter and framing harvested from a local demolished factory became the living room floor.
![25th Street Residence / Shimizu + Coggeshall Architects - Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5015/ae7e/28ba/0d5a/4b00/09ad/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1414408444)
The result is a high-performing home that has been completely transformed while respecting the layered history of the house.
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