KALORAMA TRIANGLE HOUSE
Washington, DC

The renovation of this 1904 townhouse focused primarily on the main floor - living, dining, & kitchen - and was based on 3 simple ideas: Remove the partitions that make the cellular nature of the plan, establish a "civil" dialog between the new and existing and develop a formal language that emerges from the plan and volume of the house.

The primary public room originally was the stair/entry hall - more ritual than real program. The kitchen was a small dark room at the back of the house with immediate access to the alley. We "nuked" both rooms and all that stood in between.

Moving the kitchen to a more central place along the party-wall side of the house freed up the exterior walls and allowed us to introduce large expanses of glass bringing in more natural light. The stair-hall became the dining room transforming this previously place of lost rituals into a room of everyday use.