Roth Sheppard Architects

This 7,500 SF remodel and addition includes a new street façade designed to surround an existing 1950’s ranch house while extending the footprint to the street corner.  Two perpendicular planes respond to their respective street frontage by inflecting or pushing out, creating a linear courtyard and a syncopated rhythm of modulated fenestration.

A projecting louver element relates to the adjacent two-story building datum, while providing solar shading and a recognizable visual feature, both day and night.  The juxtaposition between the sloped building facade and the freestanding louver element creates a negative/positive volumetric mass continuing the linear horizontal datum of the adjacent buildings.  A rational grid of storefront doors occurs under a sloped wall facade and the freestanding louver element creating a juxtaposition of materials, forms and textures along the commercial street.  The corner acts as a transition space allowing for a change in scale, material and plan geometry to occur along the residential street.  A ‘glass jewelry box’ concept is used to reinforce the notion of recognition and signage for the jewelry store frontage.  Canted surfaces in plan and elevation further reinforce the notion of visual stimulation while encouraging the passerby to explore treasures within each store.