Led by principal designer Nadar Tehrani, NADAAA is a platform for giant scale design investigation with a terrific geographic attain. Their initiatives which vary from furnishings to structure and concrete design, focus predominantly on craft, development, and digital fabrication. Of the innumerable industrial, industrial, and personal areas the Boston-based architectural agency has elevated, the Rock Creek Home in Washington DC, is by far their most notable.
In an adaptive re-use mission of a 1920’s brick construction, the Rock Creek Home was initially composed of two flooring, with a mechanical basement and attic. Via leveraging the positioning’s sturdy and current constructions, NADAAA efficiently lengthened the house, increasing its features into the panorama.
The construction, now twice its authentic measurement, encompasses a north-and-south glazed avenue façade, which establishes a extra exact relationship between rooms and their respective apertures. The place one aspect is formal, insular, and composed, the opposite facilitates a considerably open dialogue with the encompassing nature.
Reimagined as a ‘trendy collection of experiences’, the residence is highlighted by two multi-height areas – The primary: a palatial lounge which dominates the decrease backyard stage and connects to the entry stage through an elusive opening and stairway, and the second being a three-story central stairway which hyperlinks the doorway to its former attic stage.
Showcasing an array of laminated plywood, NADAAA hints to striated reorganization of area that marks the positioning’s transition from outdated to new – an idea that rings constant all through the house, proper right down to the closets, seats, and window frames.
Expanded from two ranges plus a basement to 4 completed flooring, the constructing’s brick envelope is the launching pad for an irregular sample of home windows that trace on the new and extra sectionally advanced inside. Characterised by a mess of personal areas that peek into public ones, and by privileged views, the Rock Creek Home is house to an abundance of pure gentle and hallucinatory illusions.