| Located in a leafy residential neighborhood of Pasadena not far from the Huntington Museum, the Greenwood house project started as a modest window replacement project and eventually evolved into an extensive whole house remodel.
The existing house was constructed in the 1920’s and added onto over time, ultimately producing an eclectic mixture of diverse architectural vocabularies and awkward forms and spaces.
Budgetary and zoning considerations limited the work to mostly within the existing building footprint. Within that framework, the goal in this project was to transform the existing home by:
Establishing a unifying architectural vocabulary that also responded to the buildings existing asymmetric form and provided balance.
Increasing the physical and visual connections to the outdoors and increasing the quantity and quality of usable outdoor space, allowing outdoor spaces to become extensions of the indoors.
Creating larger open flexible spaces to accommodate informal modern living.
Remedy the existing structural deficiencies in the back of the house.
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