PEDIMENT HOUSE

STOWE, VT | RESIDENTIAL, UNDER CONSTRUCTION

A renovation of a 1980s ranch house looks to surgically extend, rotate, and break apart a roof and its pediments as a carbon-minimizing means of transformation. Inserted chimney flues separating rooves into two planes and allow each to extend shade or tilt towards views. Nestled within sloped ground on one side, and projecting above it on the other, the broken pediment provides a moment of origin for differing responses to the site at each elevation. Beneath the roof, the facades grow glassy or opaque in turn, adapted for extrovertion or introvertion.

Team: J. Roc Jih, Florence Ma, David White (Architecture), Engineering Ventures (Structural Engineering), Career Builders VT (GC)