House on the Dell

Charlottesville, 2007

A renovation of an existing house and detached cottage in the neighborhood of the University of Virginia. Small, constrained rooms were opened up and finished with a material palette responding to sunlight and landscape elements visible to the south. Custom built-in components were provided throughout the project to provide a home for the owners' massive book collection. History and landscape architecture books now create many of the surfaces and partitions constituting the new design.