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French Creek Workshops House / Wittman Estes

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

This home for a newly retired couple sits beside a wetland on a four-and-a-half-acre site once used as an animal sanctuary. Conceived as a serene retreat immersed in nature, it offers comfort and beauty throughout the seasons, sheltering its occupants during the cool, rainy months and opening outward during the dry, warm season.

Lake Lydiard Home / Wittman Estes

Andreas Luco — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Remodel of fashion designer's new family home unlocks hidden potential of historic estate. A major renovation reimagines a historic 3-acre country estate in Minnesota. A new floor plan layout and interiors modernize the home with a contemporary look and flow for a young California family.

Whidbey Uparati House / Wittman Estes

Hana Abdel — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Floating above a meadow, Whidbey Uparati minimizes visual and physical impact on the natural landscape by blending into the site rather than asserting itself upon it. Upon approach, the meadow vegetation surrounds a winding path up a steady slope to the house. The house is a family retreat for meditation, bonding, and uparati – "stillness" in sanskrit.

Aldo Beach House / Wittman Estes

Andreas Luco — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Aldo Beach House transforms a 1940s beach house into a new multi-generational home—doubling the livable area while lightly touching the delicate ecology of the waterfront. Two shifting wings hover over the hillside and beach supported by thin steel columns and pin piles. Located on the eastern shore of Hood Canal near the Bangor submarine base, the new beach house includes the original two-bedroom structure for an expanded program of two new bedrooms, two bathrooms, and flex space. The design consists of three distinct parts: the original footprint, and the two projecting wings: the first a south ground floor addition, and the second an upper-level master suite to the north.

Yo-Ju Courtyard House / Wittman Estes

Valeria Silva — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:00:00 +0000

What happens to the suburban single-family home as cities become dense and privacy becomes limited? It must look inward. Through a series of thresholds from opaque to transparent, Yo-Ju Courtyard House, which means “secluded living” in Mandarin Chinese, embraces the future of suburban density by establishing a private experience despite being adjacent to a busy arterial street in the Clyde Hill neighborhood of Bellevue.

Grasshopper Studio and Courtyard / Wittman Estes

Rayen Sagredo — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0000

The Seattle housing shortage has increased pressure on single family neighborhoods to provide more usable space on limited single family lots. Normative new housing demolishes existing small buildings and replaces them with ‘Seattle Modern Boxes’ that maximize building size and density within zoning setbacks.