Warren Techentin Architecture

Montrose Duplex

Montrose Duplex
© Nicholas Alan Cope

PHOTOGRAPHS
Nicholas Alan Cope

LOCATION
United States

CATEGORY
Houses

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Beginning as a garage that housed the client’s electric vehicle and its charger, the project grew to encompass the addition of a new 484 square foot loft unit above it to adequately encompass programmatic needs and zoning potentials.

The clients asked for a building that would embrace concepts of green design. Numerous strategies were integrated toward this end.

Montrose Duplex
© Nicholas Alan Cope
Montrose Duplex
© Nicholas Alan Cope
Montrose Duplex
© Nicholas Alan Cope

It includes solar panels, non-toxic materials, shaded wall and roof surfaces, renewable materials, the elimination of gas as an energy source, the development of stack effects, and increased insulation.

The structure is compact – squeezed into the remaining space of the lot – and the form of it is manipulated by the site forces imposed on the space.

Such as a large tree and tight parking back-ups – which required the structure to twist, fold, and stretch as it rises to maximize solar efficiency.

Montrose Duplex
© Nicholas Alan Cope


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