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Architects: moss Design
- Area: 3945 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Carmen Troesser
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Manufacturers: Big Ass Fans, Geberit, Hansgrohe, Eureka, Sherwin-Williams, Ergon, Juno Lighting, Marvin, Milano Vivo Square, Vadara Quartz, West Elm, Western Metal, Wetstyle
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Lead Architects: Matt Nardella, AIA , Chris Koster
Text description provided by the architects. The existing two-story masonry building was an outlier on the street of mostly single and multi-family buildings. Clearly a former shopkeeper building with a retail space on the ground floor and a residential apartment situated above; this is just the building type we enjoy working with – an odd building that needed a second life. During our research, we discovered that the ground floor was most likely a butcher shop complete with a Bromann Brothers cooler which had been preserved. The cooler is a free element that acts as a divider for our clients shop space, separating the work area from the rest of the living space. The main program centered around adding a master suite to the second floor of the existing floor plan consisting of two bedrooms and one bathroom. The solution was to form a cantilevered, modern Corten (aka weathering steel) addition at the rear of the structure with a double height bedroom, bathroom and a private deck.
