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Lake Elmo weeHouse / Alchemy Architects

Valeria Silva — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:00:00 +0000

The design of the Lake Elmo weeHouse is a hyper-efficient home for clients who live in both Australia and Minnesota. The home was bound between several constraints: a modest budget, the flood plain below, and a 16’ maximum zoning height above. Nonetheless, the 990 sf box contains 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and ample open space.

Cumberland weeHouse / Alchemy Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:00:00 +0000

The Cumberland weeHouse is a year-round lakeside retreat for a family of four and their guests. The sloped, wooded lot provides a foil for the weeHouse’s elegant, horizontal form, its strong, overhanging roof, and the accompanying lakeside walkway. The basement level walk-out leads directly to the lake and includes two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a flex living/sleeping space with a cozy, wood-lined sleeping alcove.

Winhall Barnhouse / Alchemy Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Renovation of this 22’ x 64’ long farmhouse involved saving the skeleton—a 19th century timber-framed barn—which revealed two smaller stick-framed structures. The original structure was maintained and exposed by strategic demolition followed by adding a highly insulated 12” SIP shell outside the original timber + log structure, echoing the BarnHouse vernacular of an iconic shell holding individual spaces, some lofted.

Sonoma weeHouse / Alchemy Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:00:00 +0000

The Sonoma weeHouse is a small, ultra-minimal home—based on Alchemy’s original weeHouse®—customized to meet specific style and finishing requirements of the client, Apple’s Director of Store Design, and an architect himself. It is composed of two minimalist open-sided boxes set on concrete plinths nestled on the edge of gnarled oaks.

Bang Brewing / Alchemy Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Bang Brewing Company was opened in 2013 by a husband and wife team who established the first 100% organic brewery in the Midwest. The owners wanted the building and the process to reflect the qualities of their product. Self-financed loans required very tight cost control throughout design and development.

Marfa weeHouse / Alchemy Architects + Geoffrey Warner + AIA

Daniel Sánchez — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This weeHouse and its cool, calming interior serves as a simple 440 SF retreat space on the fairly remote site outside a small arts colony in West Texas. It is designed to be the first of three weeHouse modules that are planned for the site.

Arado weeHouse / Alchemy Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A violinist with the Minnesota Orchestra and her family enjoy off-grid living in the original weeHouse located on Minnesota prairie land near Lake Pepin. The interior is completely wrapped in douglas fir and features IKEA built-in cabinetry and kitchen elements as well as floor to ceiling Andersen windows on both sides.

Blair Barn House / Alchemy Architects

Victoria King — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Alchemists live in the Midwest and we love barns. Our clients love barns. Everyone loves barns. Imagine a house that takes all the great things about barns, and leaves the rest for the cows?