Valley Addition

Residential, Addition

GC: Aurora Construction
Structural Engineer: EC+

Interior Photography: Jamie Barron

Sherman Oaks, California
Completed 2024
Proposed as an efficient solution for a young family in need of increased floor area, this rear-yard addition adds a bedroom, a dining room and a flexible gym/den space to an existing one-story house. Working within side and rear-yard setbacks, the addition’s identity is primarily shaped by its stepped roofline, a new elevation visible only from the back yard. Hidden by the existing pitched roofline, from the street the house is business as usual. The addition is a pleasantly playful surprise to anyone that steps into the back yard.

At the interior, the central dining room’s generous ceiling height and wall-to-wall clerestory windows allow it to act as a natural light lantern for the adjacent living space. A cost-efficient alternative to skylights, the clerestory windows’ height brings in plenty of daylight and provides sky-views from the dining room table. To better articulate the continuous windows from the interior, square-edge 1x1 lumber creates mullion-like divisions across the clerestories and provide some scale to the space. New custom millwork provides built-in storage in both the dining room and den.







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