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Rock Creek House Washington, D.C.
New Residence, District of Columbia, United States of America – design by NADAAA
Sep 13, 2018
Rock Creek House Washington, D.C.
Design: NADAAA architects
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
The Rock Creek House is an adaptive re-use project of a 1920?s brick structure that was originally composed of two floors, with a mechanical basement and attic. This re-adaption leverages the robustness of the existing structure to capture the attic and basement to double the house?s size, while expanding its functions into the landscape.

While the northern street façade remains relatively intact –formal, insular, and composed– the southern exposure to Rock Creek is made more generous. By expanding the areas of glazing and establishing a more precise relationship between rooms and their respective apertures, a new architectural order is established on the south ? more informal, open and in dialogue with nature.
The perimeter structural wall, composed of brick, is reorganized around a north-south bias to mark the axial transition of formal and closed spaces on the north, to the informal and exposed spaces of the south. In correspondence to this, internal structural framing runs east-west, connecting the brick party walls, while topped with a cladding of laminated plywood that serves the program of the house, running north-south in tandem with the orientation of ...