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