DEEP ENERGY RETROFIT & ADDITION to WORKER'S COTTAGE
- We reinvented this 180-year-old house in downtown Cambridge to an energy-efficient, spacious house with room for entertaining and guests to stay and for a small second apartment.
- The house had many small rooms and very steep narrow stair cases. These were removed together with many interior partitions. With no details having remained from this once elegant mid-19th century house, we chose to expose interior layers as part of the house's décor and used a rougher materiality for the new elements, such as the floating steel staircase, the exposed cement board, and the copper flashing used in the kitchen/dining room.
- The house received a highly efficient envelop, that lowered the energy bills to less than half and qualified this house as the DER rating.
- A new deck (and egress stair) provide outdoor living space. A green screen system allows this space to be secure with vines growing to provide privacy screens and a connection to nature in this tight hardscape urban environment.
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