Addition To a House in Cathedral Heights

The project features a large spacious Sunroom addition set within an enclosed garden. The Sunroom addition replaces an earlier porch enclosure on the 1930s brick neo-colonial house. The client’s program required a large, flexible, open space adjacent to the living room capable of handling seated dinners of sixty persons. The clerestory captures sunlight throughout the day and provides views of the surrounding mature trees as well as providing space and air to assembled dinner guests at night. The room also serves the everyday use as an open light-filled family room readily accessible to the garden and terrace.

The addition, extensions and modifications to the terrace and changes to existing garden accessed through additional french doors are intended to improve the connection of the house to the front, side and rear garden creating an integrated three dimensional experience. Integral with the addition design is the brick garden wall and fountain pool feature which provides an exterior focus from the Sunroom through the south facing doors.

Careful attention to the scale of the interior and exterior detailing masks the size of the addition. The Sunroom is comfortable with either a single occupant or with sixty gathered for a seated dinner.