7510 Zimple

7510 Zimple
© William Crocker
7510 Zimple
© William Crocker

7510 ZIMPLE

OJT

ARCHITECTS
OJT

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Walter Zehner 

PHOTOGRAPHS
William Crocker

DESIGN TEAM
Robert Baddour, Rebecca X. Fitzgerald, Lauren Hickman, Kristian Mizes and Jonathan Tate.

MANUFACTURERS
Andersen Windows & Doors, Corrugated Industries, James Hardie

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
New Orleans, United States

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

The project occupies a previously vacant parcel adjacent the clients existing home. The new home is a linked primary residence for their aging parents with a secondary rental unit.

7510 Zimple
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7510 Zimple
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The expressed intent was to create a balance between a shared living experience between the families and a sense of autonomy.

The primary unit occupies the entire ground floor, which is organized around a deeply recessed entry porch and an internal, private courtyard.

7510 Zimple
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7510 Zimple
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Social program components — kitchen, living, dining — were position to respond to similar spaces of the existing home to create shared-use relationships.

Whereas private spaces were located towards the extremities.

The secondary unit occupies the street-side second floor, which is accessed from the shared entry porch, and intentionally mirrors the second-floor form of the existing home.

7510 Zimple
© William Crocker
7510 Zimple
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7510 Zimple
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Since the home is considered an extension of the original residence there are no obvious, visual clues for entry, aside from an open carport, and is meant to be formally anonymous.

The expressiveness comes from the manipulation of the traditional gabled roof form, which is shifted down the length of the home.

Spaces are defined by the slanted and stepped ridge line, creating complex volumetric conditions, both expansive and confining, in reaction to specific program areas — high ceilings in living areas, compressed spaces in bedrooms.

7510 Zimple
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7510 Zimple
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7510 Zimple
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The massing and positioning of the home itself is meant to re-form exterior space, which produced containment for the rear, secluded yard and raised porch areas that expand interior uses.

Critically, the project reflects an ongoing effort to embrace and contextualize historic and conventional domestic types and spatial relationships through the idiosyncratic interpretation of form.


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