House Addition | Princeton | David Hotson Architect

In order to take greater advantage of their spacious rear yard and existing swimming pool, the owners of this three-bedroom, split-level house wished to renovate the existing Kitchen and Dining Room and add a new Living Room to the rear of the house.

The design of the addition abandons both the doctrinaire modernist practice of making a clear separation between traditional house and modern addition and the post-modernist strategy of directly mimicking the original building. Instead the original house transforms into a distorted reflection of itself.

The addition has a deceptively simple, rectilinear plan. At roof level, however, the forms break out of the orthagonal. Three parallel steel beams skew vertically and horizontally across the addition to their points of intersection with the original house......more