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Tree House in Bethesda, Maryland
Real Estate Development, MD, USA – design by Gardner Architects LLC
Dec 5, 2017
Tree House, Bethesda
Design: Gardner Architects LLC
Location: Bethesda in Maryland, USA
Tree House in Bethesda

By contrast the design approach for this project integrates analysis of typical characteristics of construction vis-a-vis the era of construction, building-site relationships, and sustainable strategies in order to join competing interests, save the building and preserve its role in the community.

This house, built in the 1960s, faces south on a wooded lot in Bethesda, Mary- land. The house had limited and lifeless connections to its site, and a dearth of habitable spaces that adjoined the landscape.
With excessive energy consumption, poor construction characteristic of its era compounded by considerable deterioration as the baseline condition in which we found the home, the house then suffered a major blow–burst pipes rendered the house uninhabitable. This last event prompted the owners to either raze or resuscitate their home.

We implemented passive approaches for daylight and ventilation, a new vapor-managed building envelope, a state-of-the art insulation strategy, and updated high-efficiency mechanical systems.

We stewarded the development of a masterplan that manages stormwater, creates habitat for indigenous species, and selectively embrace...