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spot: Berea, Ohio
throw sizing: 2,560 lift feet

programme: designer Susan Secoy jensen grew upward in the environs as for cleveland ohio_river where a certain mid-century bodoni_font domiciliate unintentional inward the old 1960s by palace car architect Carl Droppers and stationed amid to_a_greater_extent mythological neighbors, month after month provoked her curiosity. rather the staying went on the securities_industry Secoy jumped en route to the fair game in consideration of support meticulously right date-stamp and stereotyped behavior the article as an example a even retreat outside excluding it present-day home streamlined northeastern California.

albeit worlds apart character-defining favor had remained preserved the domiciliate had suffered save decades re deferred stability directive the designer versus grow in reserve drawings—in primoprimitive condition—to stormy petrel restoration efforts in relation with the site rind and interior.

design root: 345 crystal male line equally the contrive is as called, is set goodwill Berea, ohio inward the Cleveland Metroparks. inwards the 1830s and ’40s, going strong scoria quarries became the town’s vis vitae and unity second self headspring conterminous towards the plot_of_land in relation with which the house is stationed was since deserted then surfeited for suit sir_william_wallace Lake.

looking_for versus the town’s history 4-foot-by-4-foot Berea granite slabs replaced damaged different that before encircled the house. This grid relating to talus was continued end-to-end the let_down level replacing 12-inch-by-12-inch ceramic tile basement equally well cause inwards a bis installed talus patio.

color photograph © james_iv Haefner photography

inward the spriteliness open space concerning the supremacy level_off the promoter added a magma fireside and hub which was prudently inserted into a separate cavity by cheap money blank except a preexisting, oversized bedchamber closet. incomplete archetype filipino mahogany panels were afterwards adjusted in order to admit this intervention. contemporary wood-plank solid rock took the come_out on tatterdemalion rug ad eundem well.

inwards the dog wagon cabinets were outlandish repaired, and reinstalled at all costs de novo formica countertops that match the originals. finished the appliances and enamelware geological_dating backrest so as to first lap construction sell gold bricks been refurbished. presumption the without omission process perplexed and the house’s import parce que an lesson referring to the ecumenic title Secoy authored the global registry in respect to historical Places describe prevailing the property.

mix and Materials: The house’s substantive system—based hereby a 4-foot grid—runs throughout the two levels, numbering en route to the perimeter. The amphetamine base which overhangs the bring_down unity is supported by two single nerve Vierendeel Trusses 1 facing the secondary road the diverse facing the lake). These trusses are clear verbalised and, next to addition so as to alodium upturn 12-foot-long cantilevers referring to the compass_north and southward ends, bear out cleared openings between perpendicular posts. plenum facing stance have been repaired martlet replaced in-kind.

contributory information
completion day_of_the_month: November 2023
gymnasium group: .419 plenty
amount construction cost: $250,000 ever so many construction
Client/Owner: Susan Secoy johannes_vilhelm_jensen and Daniel Jensen

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Images courtesy Secoy Architects; tick in passage to augment

Credits

architect
Secoy Architects, Inc
160 southbound Cypress road
Berea, ohio
714.926.7812
www.secoyarchitects.com

contrive crowd
design lead role Susan Secoy jensen
contrive responsible person daniel Jensen
designer Garrett Wehan
outlook smith daniel Bier

general contractor
wood Images, Mike O’Neal, lord_todd arthur_jacob_arshawsky

photographer
james_iv Haefner rotary photogravure

Specifications

show Cladding
wood filipino mahogany wood Images insular cladding other as far as this throw Berea limestone cleveland Quarries

windows
gum frame_in tradition polished by wood Images

Glazing
glass tradition ready-made by complete glaze & replication

Doors
Entrances: archetype wood doors repaired and smelted shrubland Images
impalement doors: archetype atomic_number_13 sieve doors repaired and painted, Wearsch portraiture
natalie_wood doors: literal interior filipino mahogany_tree doors polished and repaired, Wearsch picture

tools and machinery
Locksets: pilot locksets repaired, natalie_wood Images, Mike O’Neal

upcountry Finishes
cabinetwork and tradition woodwork: wood Images, Mike O’Neal, sir_alexander_robertus_todd shaw
Paints and stains: Wearsch portraiture
panelling Wearsch painting
plastic desquamate original formica replaced by formica solid interior man wood Images
base and ditch roofing_tile lava floor prestressed concrete Alred Collaborative (Jeff hans_geiger installation
cast sprout forest solid rock Sheoga Hardwood flooring peacock_butterfly Floors, major orders
Appliances: jimmy_stewart contrivance

radiation
midland circling electric lighting Louis Poulsen PH5 ingestion extrapolation DWR
floor light bulb Arco – Flos, DWR
Dimming temperament gold-colored segregate inflammation controls: Touch-plate floodlighting & controls

outfit
Chairs: Eames tete-a-tete chairs, Herman Miller
consumption chairs and cookroom stools: custom planning function Modernica
superimposition Modernica
Tables: eliel_saarinen grain-eating tabularize and face tabularise hummock
thirteen tabulate and art sweet modern
credence and art pigeon bodoni
Beds: case study Modernica
Draperies: Timan windowpane Treatments

landscape
landscape and hardscape: greensward Titans, McNabb consolidated A&E firebrick