Glass Box
Atlanta, GA
Currently under construction.
Located in Midtown is the former Georgia governor’s mansion constructed in the late 1800s. In order to accommodate a growing family and a new remote workspace, the client sought to create a new breakfast room and detached office space. The project celebrates the harmony of new and old, as the breakfast room acts as a transparent extension of the kitchen, bringing the house into the ecology of the backyard. The addition is surrounded by operable glass, bringing ample daylight and natural ventilation to this new space. A brick and glass detached office space bookends the backyard. This carriage house structure sink into the earth, in direct contrast with the glass box addition that hovers above the yard. The sunken cross-section allows for the desk to be at the level of the earth, bringing human and soil together at the same plane, while integrating into the existing topographical conditions of the site.
Done in collaboration with The Drawing Room and FM Studio.
Services: architecture