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Wooden Jacket House
Wedgewood, Seattle, WA
A growing family chooses to add an upper floor to a modest mid-century home. They love their big back yard where they garden with their kids. For the addition, we stick with the existing footprint of the house. In order to demolish as little as we can, and to avoid using more old-growth clear cedar, we devise an artful way to wrap reclaimed wood slat siding and new windows into and around the existing clear cedar shingle siding and simple sashed windows.
Features
- Addition on existing footprint only
- Many existing materials salvaged for re-use on site
- Integrated Home Performance testing for envelope upgrades
- Existing main floor envelope upgraded to high-performance
- Passive solar designs incorporated at south spaces
- Step-able green roof
- Rainwater catchment for re-use in toilets and laundry
- Self-contained solar preheat for domestic hot water
- All new siding installed as rainscreen
- Small hydronic system and Energy Recover Ventilator combine to heat house
Wedgewood, Seattle, WA
A growing family chooses to add an upper floor to a modest mid-century home. They love their big back yard where they garden with their kids. For the addition, we stick with the existing footprint of the house. In order to demolish as little as we can, and to avoid using more old-growth clear cedar, we devise an artful way to wrap reclaimed wood slat siding and new windows into and around the existing clear cedar shingle siding and simple sashed windows.
Features
- Addition on existing footprint only
- Many existing materials salvaged for re-use on site
- Integrated Home Performance testing for envelope upgrades
- Existing main floor envelope upgraded to high-performance
- Passive solar designs incorporated at south spaces
- Step-able green roof
- Rainwater catchment for re-use in toilets and laundry
- Self-contained solar preheat for domestic hot water
- All new siding installed as rainscreen
- Small hydronic system and Energy Recover Ventilator combine to heat house