Winkel / Haver Remodel / Addition
Winkel Haver Remodel / Addition is our 2nd honor of working in this most esteemed ‘Haver Neighborhood’ (see Matsumura / Haver Remodel text). The Winkel’s was ‘the one’ of four prototypes that was ‘our touchstone’ for recovering this ‘Patio / Carport / Courtyard Model’ intact. Bob and Helen had bought theirs from an original Marlen Grove homeowner, a graphic designer (see street # graphic) over forty years ago now when it was made up of mostly architects / designers. Several years after our multi-year / multi-phased Matsumura remodel was complete, the Winkel’s asked us to modify their home where they had raised their family so that they could live out their last days there. This included making ADA accessible doorways, bathrooms and kitchens, some of which could be further modified in the future. Along with these minor modifications, they requested a room that opened onto ‘the subdivision’s ever-constant south courtyard’ which is the Master Plan masterstroke. At first, they wanted ‘to flip the expanded family room’, the only previous addition and a common one in this subdivision and is always on northside east or west (in this case) of the carport. In lieu of this, which would have necessitated flipping kitchen as well as other major changes including reconfiguring their ‘art from a lifetime’ that Helen had collected and, in some cases, created including ‘Paintbrush One’ with her granddaughters. Instead, we proposed a future Caretaker APT that could double as a small guesthouse opening onto a transformed south garden court.
Winkel / Haver Remodel / Addition
Winkel Haver Remodel / Addition is our 2nd honor of working in this most esteemed ‘Haver Neighborhood’ (see Matsumura / Haver Remodel text). The Winkel’s was ‘the one’ of four prototypes that was ‘our touchstone’ for recovering this ‘Patio / Carport / Courtyard Model’ intact. Bob and Helen had bought theirs from an original Marlen Grove homeowner, a graphic designer (see street # graphic) over forty years ago now when it was made up of mostly architects / designers. Several years after our multi-year / multi-phased Matsumura remodel was complete, the Winkel’s asked us to modify their home where they had raised their family so that they could live out their last days there. This included making ADA accessible doorways, bathrooms and kitchens, some of which could be further modified in the future. Along with these minor modifications, they requested a room that opened onto ‘the subdivision’s ever-constant south courtyard’ which is the Master Plan masterstroke. At first, they wanted ‘to flip the expanded family room’, the only previous addition and a common one in this subdivision and is always on northside east or west (in this case) of the carport. In lieu of this, which would have necessitated flipping kitchen as well as other major changes including reconfiguring their ‘art from a lifetime’ that Helen had collected and, in some cases, created including ‘Paintbrush One’ with her granddaughters. Instead, we proposed a future Caretaker APT that could double as a small guesthouse opening onto a transformed south garden court.
Winkel / Haver Remodel / Addition
Their initial request (see project text) further prompted ‘the idea’ to transform their typical AZ-backyard-family-pool (which felt very hot) into a cooler ‘more contemplative garden pool’ as a new focal point for all the following: their original entry courtyard patio, dining room, kitchen, family room via kitchen acrylic skylight reflections, as well as newly remodeled master bath / bedroom and new multi-functional south courtyard living room. This also led to the singular idea that linked together ‘all remodel / addition interventions’ which was the oiled mill finish steel frame, which became: south-garden-reflecting sliding glass door frame(s) or a projected-box-window-dining-seat ‘Paintbrush One’ entry-facing frame (all within existing window / door openings), or elongated south-garden-reflecting picture window frame(s) with edge-ventilation-lite at kitchen and master bath, and lastly as a large inhabitable Garden Pavilion frame that allows sliding glass door to be fully opened out of view and / or shaded by exterior roll-down screen just beyond an exterior bench at pool edge that expands the new indoor / outdoor room. And on the north, a new firepit / water feature courtyard becomes the focus of a re-organized study with a new corner desk window frame.







