Vandeventer Carlander Architects has completed an huts Project Vashon Island in Washington State. This project consists of the remodel an existing one story cabin with a daylight basement. Given the tight restrictions on construction sites resulting from the existing drain field, it is impossible to increase the scope of many existing cabin. This constraint, plus the client’s desire for a complete reorganization and improvement of main floor space, resulting in the decision to demolish the existing structure to the main floor. With a broad program that calls for additional floors, the design concept evolved into a small addition, replacing the previous exterior deck. Moreover, it is a wooden box “insertion” that extends to the main structure, but the slide in the top floor of the existing structures and cantilevers over the basement walls, so they do not affect the field of existing channels.

This wooden box contains the main bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. Form of exterior and interior finish to keep the box; clerestory windows box separate from the main structure above the barn roof. Aluminium coated wood walls provide a wide glass window on the main floor. large sliding door opens to a wood deck built on the west and extending outside the interior for entertaining.

Photography by Benjamin Benschneider

The daylight basement was remodeled to include a family room, two bedrooms, and a new bath and laundry.
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