Project Spotlight: Murphy Way

Project Spotlight: Murphy Way

Hillside homes can be very tricky to design. You want to try to balance cut and fill, allowing the house to follow with the hillside rather than just carving out a flat pad and sticking a two-story house on it (definitely not site appropriate).

With our Murphy Way project, we started out with a series of trace paper sketches (now crumpled up and lost) by the Boss Man and then immediately went into Revit to push, pull, raise, lower, and rotate our volumes until we found the right location and elevation. Check out our iterations below.

After our siting and volumes were set, we ditched the masses and modeled the levels. There is still some remedial grading that we will need to look at by the garage, but the rest house seems to be working with the slope.

Now, for the fun part. Let’s see it in Enscape…

VIEW FROM ENTRY DRIVE
EXTERIOR VIEW FROM FIRE TURNAROUND
MAIN DECK LOOKING TOWARDS THE VIEW.
THE VIEW
THE VIEW
VIEW OF MAIN LIVING SPACE LOOKING TOWARDS THE VIEW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE WINDOWS!
GLASS CORNER IN MASTER BATH.
KEEPING IT UNDER THE RIDGE LINE.
AERIAL VIEW.

I cannot wait to start adding some materials and more landscaping to the model to really get a sense of it in the hill.

Holli Jackowski
holli@haynearchitects.com