羅克溪住宅美國華盛頓特區

設計負責人：Nader Tehrani; Katherine Faulkner

項目經理：Harry Lowd

設計團隊：Sarah Dunbar, Remon Alberts, John Houser,Stephen Saude, Jonathan Palazzolo, Lisa LaCharité,Parke Macdowell, David Richmond, Dane Assmusen,Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh, Mehdi Alibakhshian,

Sina Mesdaghi, Tom Beresford, Dan Gallagher

Principals: Nader Tehrani; Katherine Faulkner, AIA

Project Manager: Harry Lowd

Project team: Sarah Dunbar, Remon Alberts, John Houser, Stephen Saude,

Jonathan Palazzolo, Lisa LaCharité, Parke Macdowell, David Richmond,

Dane Assmusen, Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh, Mehdi Alibakhshian,

Sina Mesdaghi, Tom Beresford, Dan Gallagher, AIA

羅克溪住宅是一個1920年代磚結構建筑改造項目。建筑原來共兩層外加與花園同一水平層的地下器械室和有著儲藏空間的閣樓。本次翻新和改造利用了與景觀的聯系和現有結構的堅固性，使閣樓和地下室的面積翻倍，同時為一個5口之家提供了居住空間，并增加了2-3名工作人員的空間。街道北邊屬于城區，該住宅則位于街道南邊，讓位于突然下降的羅克溪，同時與周邊的自然保護區融為一體。該建筑的正面采用傳統建筑形式——必須對稱、有序和協調——同時，利用與陽光和綠色植被的關系，在南邊采用一種更加開放的非傳統建筑形式。通過擴大南面玻璃的面積，將磚墻的承重功能按比例改變為幕墻，采用鋼結構確保這一新型立面的擠壓和側向穩定。

The Rock Creek House is an adaptive re-use project of a 1920’s brick structure that was originally composed of two floors, as well as a mechanical basement at the garden level, and an attic that offered storage space. This renovation and re-adaptation leveraged the connection with the landscape and the robustness of the existing structure to modify the attic and basement to double the size of the house,while offering room for an expanding family of 5, with an added 2-3 staff members. Urban on the north face at street level, the property gives way to a dramatic drop on the southern side in relation to Rock Creek, and the extended natural preserve that is its legacy. The house builds up on the formality of the front –its requisite symmetries, order and tone—while giving way for a more open informality on the south taking advantage of the relationship to sun and greenery. By expanding the square footage of glass on the southern face, the load bearing function of the brick wall was proportionally altered to become a curtain wall, with steel structure providing both compressive and lateral stability for this new face.