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 adaptation 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.
建筑北部立面基本保持其正式的和保守的形式，相對于南邊的設計就更加開放。用玻璃裝飾建筑間以及墻面之間的縫隙，使它們建立新的空間關系。在這樣的空間秩序營造下，整個南面變得更加正式和開放且更加融入自然。
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.
周邊磚結構墻作為從北邊正式和封閉的空間到南邊開放空間的過渡。與此對應的，立面東西走向的薄層壓板組成連接南北走向的空間。房中幾乎所有的元素：臺階，衣柜，窗戶框架都包括這些紋理。從北面堅實立面到南面的透明玻璃立面，房子的構造加固了這個改變。
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 the house. All elements are incorporated into these laminar striations: stairs, closets, seats, window frames, among other components. From a solid facade on the North to a transparent and glazed facade to the south, the tectonics of the house reinforces this transformation.
兩個垂直空間的介入成為這個建筑最特別的地方。第一個空間從上至下連接入口處和底層花園，并延伸到新的客廳和南部景觀中。第二個垂直空間將入口連接到被天窗蓋住的游樂場，這一部分原本是建筑的閣樓空間。經過兩個垂直空間的干預，臥室，工作和儲藏領域完美的連接在一起。
The most salient spatial intervention is the introduction of two multi-height spaces. The first connects the entry level down to the garden level, with a new living room that extends to the southern landscape. The second vertical space connects the entry up to the former attic, now a play loft capped by a skylight. With these two interventions the once stratified realms of storage, bedrooms, work areas, and living areas become seamlessly intertwined.
建筑設計：NADAAA（www.nadaaa.com）
項目名稱：Rock Creek House
項目位置：Washington D.C.
主設計師：NaderTehrani
總建筑面積：10,200 平方英尺
攝影：John Horner
