Gold Renovation: Formed Wood

This project is a design-build basement renovation of a single-family residence. Expanding on the storage core of the residence, this design uses standardized materials and details to push and pull from inside and outside of a single bedroom within the existing building footprint. This detail serves as a mass that begins at the stair circulation, that expands and contracts the volumes of both the stair and the bedroom. Inspired by the profiles found in brake metal, this design-build project utilized digital fabrication techniques to achieve the profile forms in plywood panels. This design for a home in Omaha uses the same base material, birch plywood panels, found in millwork within the existing bedrooms but uses a new geometry logic of linear cuts and bends to engage the depth of a typical storage volume. Serving as a children’s room, this design asked to be interacted with as a play element and uses natural curiosities to find opportunities for exploration within the depth of this mass. This project is the first phase of a two-part renovation of a basement to adapt to the changing demands of a growing family within the existing footprint of the home.