MAY 2014
Commanding Perspective
by Colleen Hawkes
EXCERPT:
Initially contracted to design a remodel, the designer of this new house says the project escalated until it became clear the only option was to simply start over.
FuTung Cheng of Cheng Design says the owners of the existing house on site required a larger home that simply could not fit into the same footprint. Building anew was a better way to achieve what they wanted, and it did not need to cost much more than a total renovation.
“Their home sat in a neighborhood of houses in a similar traditional style — there were plenty of quaint gabled rooflines,” Cheng says. “But what they wanted — and what was ultimately proposed — was a complete departure. The owners had seen my work with concrete on smaller jobs and loved the modern aesthetic, and we could see there was a potential to do something similar on a much larger scale.”
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