"A 600 square foot
expansion of a 1948 one story wood frame and stucco Case Study House.
Three
parallel, load bearing walls were extended vertically to accommodate a second
floor. The original roof, pitched slightly to west and east, was left in
place. The peak of this erstwhile roof determined the height of the new
second floor. The original roof profile repeats as the roof line of the
second story. A new stair along the north wall connects old with new
through
an opening
punched in the north-east corner of the living room.
The
addition provides a large bedroom opening east to the view, and three ancillary
storage/bathroom spaces on the west.
The
structure is a wood frame with stucco exterior and drywall interior.
Several
critical features should be noted:
Flying
Buttresses: The entrance to the house is framed with two buttresses of
identical shape laid one over the other. The first is of wood and
plaster, painted blue; the second bolted to the first is of perforated 20 gauge
steel, painted green, set in a hard-wood frame. Aside from defining the
path to the door, the buttresses gently caricature the role of structure in
building, a role modernism deified.
Flying
Door: The buttresses incline toward a large, rectangular windowed box"
