Designed, and built by the team of HyBrid Architecture and HyBrid Assembly, located in Seattle, WA, USA. This house has similar characteristics including a horizontal paulownia open-joint rainscreen enclosure assembly which mimmicks the lap-siding of the existing homes in the neighborhood. The three units facing the street reach out to pedestrians akin to the rowhome developments that were prevalent in larger cities. The front stoops reach to the ground inviting neighbor interaction, while the penthouse stair towers reach to the sky, engaging the Seattle skyline in the near distance.
The bottom floor has rough-in plumbing for a future kitchen, its own entrance, a 3/4 bathroom, and is designed with a demountable wall to be built-out to completely separate it from the 2 floors above. This simple design technique allows the building to double its occupancy if necessary. The roof gardens are equipped with 9? of soil to allow for gardening by the inhabitants.
Architects: HyBrid Architecture
Photographs: Lara Swimmer, Cleary O’Farrell and Nick Williams
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