DPConrad, Architect

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• The Garden Building is placed in the northeast corner of the property. This maintains open space around main historic dwelling:

  The shaded entry yard to the west

  A small orchard of apricots, figs, and sour cherries. and kitchen garden to the sunny southeast side yard.

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• Interior Space/Fenestration

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• Day Light

• Resources: appropriate scale, well oriented, tightly constructed, deeply insulated heated by passive solar gain and internal heat gains, balanced with energy recovery ventilation equipment reducing energy consumption down to about 10% of that of typical recently built building stock.

Project for a Garden House in NE Washington DC (2015 11 05 draft)

Project Brief:

Develop small scale accessory dwelling unit on a historic property in an urban context, making responsibly efficient use of space, energy and our world's finite material resources.

Project Aspirations:

The building's design aims to be sensitive to its context and history, yet expressive of its own moment and built mindful of tomorrow.

It hopes to produce a dwelling that is at once a private comfortable shelter and also hospitable, generous and neighborly.

Design Approach:

Site Planning:

The Garden House is placed in the northeast corner of the property.

This placement maintains open space around main historic dwelling.

It also defines a shaded entry yard to the west,

and articulates a small orchard of fruit trees and a kitchen garden in the sunny southeast side yard.

Design Development:

well oriented, tightly constructed, deeply insulated, heated by passive solar gain and internal heat gains, balanced with energy recovery ventilation equipment reducing energy consumption down to almost 10% of that of typical recently built building stock.

• A Solfège of Diversions-(Section Under Construction)

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• edited 2014 04 22 by DPC