We are adding a modern box to the middle of outr 1940’s house. The addition is 17′ wide and extends the back of the house 4′ and adds another story and roof deck.
The extension on the main level expands a very small bathroom and galley kitchen, while the new second level adds a new master bedroom, bathroom, & closet.
My wife and I have been calling the addition the “Tree fort”. We live in an area of Billings knows as the tree streets (the streets are all named after trees). Our neighborhood has boulevard style streets, with a great variety of mature trees planted along every street. The trees in the neighborhood are amazing, but block all views out of the neighborhood. We thought it would be great to build an addition to experience the trees at every level (the big views would be of the trees) The fist level of the house would be a view of the trunks with the canopy overhead. The second level we have a 12′ wide window that faces the main canopy of our maples and puts you smack dab in the middle of the canopy, and the experience culminates in a roof deck that feels like you are just at the very tops of the surrounding trees. Being at roof top elevation allows views out to a unique geological feature to billings the “Rimrocks” Despite the rimrocks being very close the trees completely block any view of them from the neighborhood, but at the roof deck level we now have direct views to the rimrocks, and with the trees close it feels much like being high up in a tree fort.
I will upload my renderings and drawings in this post and then add final photos and progress photos in a later post.
My Architectural Drawings can be viewed here: Construction Documents