Charged with the opportunity to expand a faceless one-story 600 square foot mini-house on a wonderful wooded location, k.a conceived the project to appear in “reverse”. Accordingly, the two-story 1500 square foot addition was to be understood as though it was the larger Main House while the smaller existing house was to be seen as the “addition”, due to its tiny size and scale. Spatially, the new actual addition interjects a grand two-story, light-filled Living Hall with loft which energizes the entire composition and adds much needed accommodations for the owners. The existing house was re-programmed and given over entirely to bedrooms. With its crisp proportions, tight clapboard skin, and metal roof the design evokes the simple farm buildings found in this area of the Ulster County.

The project was designed for durability and to be constructed as inexpensively as possible. Panelized modules were prefabricated by a local barn builder and trucked to the site where they were craned into place and connected. The entire shell and roof were completed in three consecutive days.