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Scranton Residence

Iain Kerrigan — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:54:01 +0000

This contemporary home is nestled into a sloped site of rock outcroppings and woods that surround the property. The steel, glass and cedar house sits on a stone base facing the street, through which you enter the ground floor. Stairs climb to the main living area with views of tiered landscaping that connect the interior to outdoor spaces. Cantilevered balconies, a roof garden, multi-level decks, patios, a koi pond and swimming pool all serve as extensions of the house that marry this modern structure to its natural surroundings.

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Shavertown Residence

matt — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:32:43 +0000

Situated in a private 16-acre subdivision in the dense woods of Northeastern Pennsylvania, this uniquely composed home appears as a “found object” in contrast with its naturalwooded surroundings. The building sites large stoneoutcropping allows for a “lofty” tree-house feeling to be achieved. Appearing to be landing or taking off, the building invites entrance at the high end of the site, while soaring over the extreme sloping hillside through the trees, to the wooded meadows below.

The client, an avid art collector, charged us to “Design art that can be lived in.” Both the interior and exterior spaces reflect the owner’s need for sculpture and encourages an
occasional pause to appreciate the thoughtfully placed items.

The owner expressed an interest in sustainable design if the details could be made practical and cost effective. With the use of fiber-cement siding, a rainwater collection system for irrigation, low-water consumption landscaping, and a high-performance building envelope, the project provided an opportunity to incorporate sound “green” principles while also creating an interesting design solution.

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Urban Infill Container House

matt — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:25:43 +0000

Located on Main Street in Pittston, PA, this innovative shipping container house merges residential and commercial spaces in a sleek, modern design. The ground floor features a versatile retail space with large glass panels that invite foot traffic and create an open, airy feel that engages the surrounding community. Above, the residence offers expansive views of the nearby river, making it an ideal urban retreat with a touch of nature.

Constructed from repurposed shipping containers, the structure embodies a sustainable, industrial-chic aesthetic, with clean lines, minimalist finishes, and bold metal accents. The exterior combines the rugged texture of metal with large glass windows and balconies, adding warmth and sophistication to its modern look. Inside, the residence features open-concept living areas with a palette of whites, greys, and warm wood finishes, creating a calming, stylish ambiance that complements the structure’s industrial roots.

This unique blend of home and retail space is designed to foster both business opportunity and comfortable living, with easy access to Pittston’s vibrant Main Street and the natural beauty of the river. It stands as a contemporary icon, adding character and versatility to the urban landscape while celebrating sustainable, adaptive design.

“Clear illustrative diagrams and graphics tell the conceptual story of the assembly of modular components well, revitalizing an urban infill lot. The blending of salvaged containers with new components creates a form language that establishes dynamic circulation patterns and relationships between a mix of uses that could be developed in many ways for various different programmatic requirements and scales – AIA Potomac Valley Jury

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Shavertown Pool Cabin

matt — Fri, 17 May 2019 13:16:13 +0000

This pool cabin doubles as a guest house and incorporates a two car garage. At the owner’s request, the cabin’s exterior materials and colors are complimentary to those of the existing nearby home. Trellis and garden-structure details soften the otherwise simple building shapes.

The project received an Honor Award for Design from the Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of American Institute of Architects award in 2002.

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Harveys Lake Lodge

matt — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:55:31 +0000

Overlooking one of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s historic lake communities, this contemporary home draws on the vocabulary of local woodland cottages to develop a home both modern and bucolic. A restrained palette of materials includes fieldstone, cedar siding, cedar shakes, and standing seam metal roofing. Deep overhangs shade the south-facing elevation from the summer sun.

The project received an Honor Award for Design from the Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2007.

“It has a great central room – and when you enter on axis with that room you see out to the view, creatively exploring a lakeside vernacular. The house is slightly vast and has a large presence on the lake, but it does have a clear plan idea and related intellectual content in regard to the plan organization on the site. As an upside-down house where visitors enter at the middle-level, the view is the metaphor.” – AIA New York Jury

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Endless Mountains House

matt — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 13:50:15 +0000

After residing in a loft studio for a number of years, our client, an accomplished artist, made a decision to build a new home and studio on land overlooking a small farming valley and a quiet lake. The site is a sloped upland meadow that looks to the Endless Mountains – those Appalachian ridges that layer out towards the wild north-central part of Pennsylvania; an almost dizzying view extends for 17 miles to the scenic northwest.

The home elevates a modest 1,200 sf of main living level up above a garage and an art studio on the ground floor. The artist’s studio is used as a teaching space, and it is accessible by students from a stone parking area by walking along a bluestone path beside the cord wood stack on the downslope side of the home. The main formal entrance to the home is a half-story up from parking, and it is approached via a gently terraced set of stone steps on the upslope side of the structure.

Exterior materials and interior treatments recall agrarian farm buildings which dot the landscape. Natural materials – which will acquire the character and patina of age – are deployed in a muted sage and clearcoat palette across patterned surfaces of horizontal, vertical, and board-and-batten siding; an occasional splash of soft primary color alludes to a painter’s presence.

The indoor environment is climatized by a high-efficiency geothermal heat pump system with capability to run three radiant-floor heating zones. Throughout, various natural and regional materials are used, including Pennsylvania bluestone landscape walls and steps, Vermont slate tile, American cherry and birch flooring, and Douglas fir interior columns and handrails – all of which work to develop a variety of sensory experiences to sight, touch, and sound.

This home incorporates lively and compact spaces for dwelling and working that offer delight and repose to its occupants and their visitors alike.

We can sense that the people that live in this house love and enjoy their home. The smart, compact floor plan, combined with modest materials, successfully compliments the building’s context – AIA Northeastern Pennsylvania Jury

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Bear Creek Farmhouse

matt — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:22:44 +0000

Situated on the brow of an old hillside homesteader’s farm in Northeastern Pennsylvania, this new residence blurs spare traditional 19th-century rural farmhouse forms with elements of a more modern residential vocabulary in an effort to develop a presence timeless in its appeal and yet quietly progressive.

A well-maintained 120-year old barn on site is the principal remnant of the long inactive homestead farm. The appeal of the barn’s airy interior is replicated in part in the home’s living room space. This two-and-a-half story volume is the central event in an open-plan interior whose character is hinted at on the home’s exterior in various non-traditional fenestration patterns.

Recovered hardwood floor joists are exposed at the kitchen ceiling to help define that area as a separate space within the interior; these joist traverse over the separating living room wall in an expression of their cantilevered nature as they support second floor spaces above.

The project received an Honor Award for Design from the Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2002.

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