Hampton Avery Architects

Home sweet rooftop garden

Pull up a chair, pick a tomato, and sit awhile.

Rooftop garden… got plants?

The Coleman garage is complete with the installation of the rooftop garden this weekend.

Now it’s up to Mother Nature to fill in the blanks and help this garden grow.

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.

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).

Shingle stylin’

The roof membrane is on and siding (big shingles!) is going up. See the latest progress photos.

Puppy and skeleton-bear?

It’s manipulative, I know, but would you really click this link like we want you to do if I had titled it “Even More Garage Progress?” Thought not.

From a jobsite fence: the contractor thinks it’s a cute puppy holding a teddy bear. I think it’s a menacing primate battling a skeleton-bear. Say what you will about how my mind works, but it’s my blog entry.

While you’re deciding for yourself… see even more garage progress photos.

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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