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Deck House Intervention
Carlisle, MA

After two decades during which confused guests generally found their way only to the grand backyard doors, this playroom and garage addition reorients the iconic 1960′s home with a new primary entry sequence.  A broad horizontal roof plane pulls the landscape into the arrival, and creates and emphatic gesture; welcoming, sheltering, and deferential to the main house form.

The playroom’s materials and their roles are extracted from the main house, and re-assembled in a looser composition of new relationships reaching out from the rectangular house plan to shape outdoor spaces on both the public and private sides of the home.

Designed by DSA principal Tim Hess as Design Director at Platt Builders

Builder: Platt Builders

Deck House Intervention Carlisle Massachusetts, Japanese zen garden, Retaining wall, Earth berm, Playroom garage addition, Iconic 1960’s, Flat roof, Horizontal house, Steel column, Red window sash
Deck House Intervention Carlisle Massachusetts, Japanese zen garden, Retaining wall, Earth berm, Playroom garage addition, Iconic 1960’s, Flat roof, Horizontal house, Steel column, Red window sash
Deck House Intervention Carlisle Massachusetts, Japanese zen garden, Retaining wall, Earth berm, Playroom garage addition, Iconic 1960’s, Flat roof, Horizontal house, Steel column, Red window sash
Deck House Intervention Carlisle Massachusetts, Japanese zen garden, Retaining wall, Earth berm, Playroom garage addition, Iconic 1960’s, Flat roof, Horizontal house, Steel column, Red window sash
Deck House Intervention Carlisle Massachusetts, Japanese zen garden, Retaining wall, Earth berm, Playroom garage addition, Iconic 1960’s, Flat roof, Horizontal house, Steel column, Red window sash

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