Moore Architects, PC

Lakefront Residence

Lakefront Residence
© Hoachlander-Davis Photography

LAKEFRONT RESIDENCE

Moore Architects

ARCHITECTS
Moore Architects

AREA
4900.0 ft2

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
GN Contracting

LOCATION
United States

PHOTOGRAPHS
Hoachlander-Davis Photography

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Jordan Honeyman Landscape Architecture

CATEGORY
Houses

Lakefront Residence
© Hoachlander-Davis Photography
Lakefront Residence
© Hoachlander-Davis Photography

Waterfront lots along private Lake Barcroft in Falls Church, Virginia are rare finds in the real estate market, so when this lot became available, the clients took the house as it was: a weathered symbol of the 1960s split-level.

Lakefront Residence
© Hoachlander-Davis Photography
Lakefront Residence
© Hoachlander-Davis Photography

Saving the bones of the front to back split-level, the architects sought to use this basic organization to an advantage: exploiting the street side / water side split personality of the residence, but acknowledging that the fun is in the modern connection of the two worlds.

The landscaped street face of the house, containing the entry, office, garage and guest rooms, recalls the reserve and scale of the original house.

The rear of the house, with the living and dining rooms, and master suite, explodes into the woods, opening views to the steep hill that plummets to the water below.

Lakefront Residence
© Hoachlander-Davis Photography
Lakefront Residence
© Hoachlander-Davis Photography
Lakefront Residence
© Hoachlander-Davis Photography

The rear terrace, an outdoor room defined by the "L" of the house, leans out into the maples beyond. The master bedroom is the "tree house" of the new rear addition, pushing the expansion of the house vertically.

But it's the visual and organizational connections between the split levels of the house and out to the landscapes beyond - opening up the spaces to one another, crossing the boundaries between front and back, inside and outside, above and below, that makes the whole out of the parts.

Lakefront Residence
© Hoachlander-Davis Photography


Lakefront Residence
© Hoachlander-Davis Photography
Lakefront Residence
© Hoachlander-Davis Photography
Lakefront Residence
© Hoachlander-Davis Photography
Lakefront Residence
Lakefront Residence
© Hoachlander-Davis Photography


Lakefront Residence
Basement Floor Plan
Lakefront Residence
First Floor Plan
Lakefront Residence
Second Floor Plan


Lakefront Residence
Front and Rear Elevations
Lakefront Residence
Right and Left Elevations


Lakefront Residence
Front Elevation Concept
Lakefront Residence
Front Elevation Sketch


Lakefront Residence
Rear Concept Sketch
Lakefront Residence
Rear Elevation Concept Sketch
Lakefront Residence
Site Plan Concept Sketch


Lakefront Residence
Star Concept Sketch
Lakefront Residence
Site Concept Sketch

Moore Architects, PC
T +1 703 5321192
Moore Architects, PC
105 N Maple Ave #100, Falls Church, VA 22046, United States