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In the Mid Atlantic

Commonly understood as a bridge between North and South, DC is geographically more of a bridge between the Chesapeake Bay to the east and the Appalachian Mountains to the west. Today NE-SW I-95 dominates the landscape of the MidAtlantic, but the mountains to the northwest have long been linked to the bay to the southeast by rivers and streams that have carried goods and people down from the mountains for millennia. These diverse ecologies experience cold damp winters and hot humid summers, challenging architecture to withstand the travails of time.

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Swampy Hollow
40°59'N 72°14'W

Flexing the stud
Flexing the frame
Flexing the structure
Flexing the feeling
A screened porch in the woods by the beach.
​Expressing the structure the house knew it had inside all along.

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The Sparrows
38°56'N 78°12'W

​A host of sparrows sit atop a ridge with a view out over the Shenandoah Valley. The houses are similar, but each is unique, and together their clustering lets the landscape do the chirping.

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High Land
39°18'N 76°23'W

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

– Edgar Allen Poe,
A Dream Within A Dream

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Summit House
39°38'N 77°43'W

A historic brick school on a hill in Hagerstown is converted into a boutique hotel. New wings and a built-out basement expand the landmarked building’s footprint with as soft of a touch as possible.

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Port Tobacco
38°30'N 77°00'W

Forgotten land between neighboring houses is reclaimed for a rural retreat near Port Tobacco. Embracing the ridge of a hill and overlooking a small creek, the house settles into the landscape with minimal impact.

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River View
38°43'N 77°01'W

Renovation of a house designed and built by former civil engineer and National Bonsai Museum Director William Merritt. Inspired by Japanese Metabolist architecture, the house’s three hexagons interlock to create views out over the Potomac River toward Mt.Vernon.

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Cliff Side
38°51'N 78°15'W

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to confront only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

– Henry David Thoreau
Walden

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Noble Farm
38°39'N 78°09'W

“To us, our house was not unsentient matter — it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.”

– Mark Twain
Letters

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Pike Branch
38°47'N 77°05'W

The first BLDUS project.


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