Happy January from in situ studio! Take a look at what we’ve been up to here or on our website!
Trull, Moura, Corbett, and Medlin
We are excited to announce that we are finalizing construction documents and are within a month of breaking ground on the Moura Residence! We are also nearing completion of the design phase for the Trull Residence, which promises to add a little spice to the Cary landscape. Construction continues on the Corbett Residence, a simple, wood box overlooking a stream valley near Bahama, NC. Site visits have been muddy, but fun, and we typically swing by to pay homage to the Poland House by George Matsumoto on the way home each week. We are also enjoying our first experience working with Aiello Builders. Finally, the Medlin Residence is nearly dried in! Thanks to contractor Kemp Harris for his hard work and attention to detail!
The Ten at South Person
The Ten at South Person is 95% framed! We appreciate the hard work of Northview Construction, who are doing great work building the 10-unit row house project. And, thanks to DHIC for giving us the opportunity to contribute to downtown Raleigh’s housing stock! If you want to know more, you may contact realtor Hilary Stokes, or simply drive by the intersection of South Person and Lenoir Streets to see the project in person.
Church on Morgan
For the past year, we have been working with Edenton Street United Methodist Church to design a renovation to a complex of buildings in downtown Raleigh that will house Church on Morgan. Located at the intersection of Morgan and Blount Streets, the renovation will create a worship venue that can also accommodate concerts, a fellowship space and gallery that open to a corner garden, education areas, and offices. Thanks to our entire team for their incredible work in realizing the full potential of the complex – McDonald York, John A. Edwards and Company, Clyde Oak, Lysaght + Associates, Diversified Consulting Group, and Crawford Sprinkler. Follow Church on Morgan via their newsletter and Twitter.
What We’re Up To Outside the Studio
Erin and her family have been spending time in their second favorite place in North Carolina (second to Raleigh, of course!) – the South Toe River Valley and the Pisgah National Forest. They have enjoyed hikes, rock hopping, trout fishing, and even a “polar plunge” into a swimming hole! A hike to the top of Mt. Mitchell is slated for this spring.
Mary has begun teaching studio again at the NCSU College of Design, working with sophomores to investigate the relationship between site and built form. They will be heading to Charleston in February to study the city fabric and architecture in an urban context. She has also been spending a bit of time in the woodshop, building furniture for better college basketball watching.
Matt is teaching the graduate level form studio at the NCSU College of Design again this spring, in collaboration with Don Kranbuehl of Clark Nexsen. His family just welcomed their first dog, a Corgi puppy named Lili. She might be the cutest mammal in history! He is also the drummer in a new band, Poinsettia, with Vince Whitehurst(guitar + vocals) of architecture and Foundation Bar fame and Finley Lee (bass). Follow their progress and keep track of upcoming shows via Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Jeremy recently completed his first volunteer experience at Exploris Elementary, teaching a module on architecture entitled “Build a Dream Home…For An Animal!” His songwriting efforts continued through the winter—expect to hear his first recordings this spring! And, tune your radio dial to 88.1 WKNC on Wednesdays from 6-7pm to hear him spin an eclectic set of indie rock tunes.
Book of the Month
D.J. Waldie’s Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir is a first-hand account of growing up in 1950s Lakewood, California. Lakewood was the first and largest of its kind on the west coast, a parallel to Levittown, New York, America’s original suburb. Waldie describes Lakewood as both a dystopia and a home. It is a place of rationality carried out to absurdity through the limitless, formal order of a grid that never yields to the hydrological and geological systems beneath it nor the individual lives upon it. Yet, Lakewood did not become a slum, as was feared, but is described as functional, livable, and humane. Waldie’s story describes the humanizing effect of this environment, both the ways in which we dominate and make sweeter the places we inhabit.
Detail of the Month: Moura Residence
