Design Request: 

This was a design competition to design a new home on an existing home site in Virginia per the homeowner's stylistic and space requirements. 

 

Design Challenges:

• The homeowner wanted to implement green technologies including solar panels on the roof. 

• The site sloped up from the front of the house to the back of the house and the existing curb cut for the driveway was to remain.

• The main level was to have open access to a covered porch, patio, and eventually a pool.

• Maximum square footage was 4,000 SF for the upper level of the budget. 

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Design Solution:

• Create a large roof set at an angle facing the south to accommodate a large number of solar panels. 

• Due to the slope of the site, it was determined that the garage should be housed on a different level than the main level.  If the garage was located on the main level, the main level would be buried at the rear of the home without any egress or daylighting.  

• In order to reduce the amount of steps from the garage level to the main level, the lower level and garage levels were split where the garage was higher than the basement. 

• In order to provide the clients with a higher level of finish as they desired, I tried to keep the SF to below 3500 SF. 

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Services Provided:

• Space Planning

• Rough Schematic Design