Heritage Homes
Our team partnered with the State College Community Land Trust to design an affordable, owner-occupied, high performance duplex in the Borough of State College. Good architecture learns from the past, responds to the present, and inspires the future. Our site in the Great Appalachian Valley creates the challenge to react to the unique geography and the rich socio-cultural patterns in the area. Pennsylvania's long history produced a host of distinctive building styles such as the Pennsylvania Farm house and the Bank Barn that have been re-interpreted to fulfill the expectations of first time owners and young families within high efficiency parameters to contextually root the building to the place. Sited in a high point in the Nittany Valley, the design balances the need to respond to solar orientation and the southern view of the Bald Eagle mountain ridge while still creating a local street presence from the access road to the East. Our design is a solution to bring together these seemingly separate fragments into a cohesive whole by designing with the site, integrating client needs, imbibing local traditions and re-imagining future living.
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