The inception of Gallery Shed was born after a long, warm conversation with a retired couple aiming for something different. For over a decade they had been collecting clippings and articles of ‘modern homes’ and had a good idea that their dream home involved a design that was unconventional. While busy filing their clippings, they...
9th & Broadway is an urban community of duplex rowhouses that occupy a long-vacant parcel in Sacramento’s Richmond Grove district. In the 1960s, the construction of the Interstate Highway permanently severed the area from the city’s older neighborhoods, leaving behind an urban limb with falling property values and a deteriorating social and economic fabric. After...
This small, unassuming family residence occupies a steeply sloped site in Madison’s Spring Harbor neighborhood, a post-war suburb within the city limits and in close proximity to downtown and the University of Wisconsin campus. The lot had sat idle for decades, considered too difficult to develop because of its narrow triangular shape, limited buildable footprint,...
The Curtain House is a private residence on a long-vacant, narrow parcel embedded in Milwaukee’s Lower East Side, a dense, demographically diverse neighborhood known for affordable housing options and its lively mix of young families, blue-collar workers, students, and artists. The client, a lifelong urban dweller looking for a buildable lot in the central city...
Block 27 is a small, four-unit rental apartment building in the Newton Booth district on Sacramento’s east side. The compact structure sits on an empty infill lot at the boundary between an area of distribution centers, warehouses, and light-industrial buildings on one side, and a dense residential neighborhood with treelined streets on the other. In response...
Located in Milwaukee’s 5th Ward, the existing, historic Louis Bass building is a Cream City Brick, heavy timber construction. The scope of the project is two-fold, adapting the historic building into an apartment and creating an addition to the South. The entire building will be housing with the addition seamlessly integrating with the historic portion. Keeping...
The Kettle Moraine House, named after the eponymous glacial landscape in central Wisconsin, is a private residence quietly nestled in its natural setting of Campbellsport, Wisconsin. The House sits at the far end of an elevated plateau of recently restored native prairie, its low-slung linear volume overlooking an expansive wetland and small creek beyond. From...
