Hampton Avery Architects

Coleman garage nearly complete

Trellises, repurposed from galvanized aluminum security grilles from the ReBuilding Exchange, slip from the rooftop garden, over the coping, and down over the wood rainscreen cladding to make it easier for Santa to get to the chimney (not in contract).

The trellises will later form what we like to call around here the ‘green combover’ of trailing plants from the rooftop garden.

See construction photos.

All For One and One For All

Dave’s guest blog entry for eco-intel.com makes the case for integrated-design and -project delivery using the Coleman garage as an easy-to-grasp example.

All For One and One For All

Flaming the Cypress

Derek Ottens of Green Cross Build, the general contractor for the garage experiment project burns the rain screen cladding for it’s own good. The wood was originally flooring and is already finished & sealed on one face. The remaining faces are being charred to seal them from the elements. The wood is then installed with the charred side facing out (see image below).

Garage progress

See progress photos on slab and framing.

How far can you push materials reuse on a little garage?

Fig. 1. The existing garage being deconstructed.

Hampton Avery Architects has designed a new two-car garage with rooftop garden/deck to replace an old existing wood-framed garage on a concrete slab-on-grade. There is effectively no such thing as demolition on this project.

NEW: See the online photo gallery.

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