Correcting a half-cooked McMansion with proper structural methods and regional pattern language.
The first draft featured a misguided mansard, 2 wythe wall, foam, veneer walls, concrete slabs, false walls and drywall, and a horrible user experience within the floor and stair plan.
The building as designed by Pless is no better than a typical office/commercial structure. Consuming a lot of barcode materials and proprietary engineered “structure”.
This revision maintains the “impressive” symmetrical entry but cleans up all the appliqué. The garage structure is no longer an appendage with the same roofline. Instead it’s punctuated as a utility building separate from the main. Using a mews pattern with parapet gables.
The bloated lawyer foyer is gone and in its place is a classical 3/4 stair with a landing at the lantern window over the front entry.
Gone is the fake cornice. In its place is a brick corbel, and simple soffit and fascia with a standard hung gutter inset to stand as the cyma recta.
Trad Building 