Saltbox comprises a complete reimagining of a 1920s brick Cape Cod. The project introduces a lofty skylight-filled second-story addition and a total main-floor renovation, merging renovation/preservation with current residential energy-minded modern design. An accessible landscape and hardscape rounded out the remaking of this home.
Spatial Highlights:
- The Stair Core: A central stair “atrium” is the anchor of the home, with places to hang out, see and be seen, and through which light is brought into the home and reflected throughout. Designed with a built-in library and adjacent platforms on which to sit and converse, it also serves as a light well that bounces daylight throughout the open plan.
- Universal Design: A new terraced landscape addressed issues of drainage, accessibility, a sense of place, repose, and view. An accessible path from street to garden through the house makes this path friendly to those in wheelchairs, and connects the street directly through the home’s interior to the rear garden terraces.
Performance & Sustainability:
- To bring the century-old masonry structure up to modern sustainably-minded standards, we employed forward-looking strategies.
- Water Stewardship: Rainwater is harvested onsite through a system of catchment barrels and intentionally directed toward native rain gardens to mitigate runoff.
- Energy & Comfort: The house includes a 4kw photovoltaic array, all LED lighting, an ERV, a 95% efficient combination tankless boiler and domestic hot water heater with modulating – condensing burner technology and two ultra-high efficiency air cooled condensers and matching indoor air handlers.
- Envelope: The masonry envelope of the existing portions of the home were finished in lime-based paint, and the addition was a high-performing assembly, clad in stucco. Blower door testing confirmed the entire structure met and exceeded new-construction IECC energy code baselines.
Material Used :
1. AGS - Hand and guardrails– Cable rail
2. Jeldwen – Doors and Windows
3. GAF – Roof – Timberline Cool Series
4. Dryvit – Facade Cladding - Stucco
