The Woodway Residence by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
The Seattle, Washington office of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson redesigned a 1950s mid-century modern home to give it a new contemporary life for a young family.
With minimal changes to the footprint, this previously dark, disorganized 1950s suburban home was redesigned to blur the boundary between indoor living and the landscape beyond. A composition of enlongated colored boxes and planar elements organizes and enlivens the house. Circulation and living spaces occupy the resulting zones between.
A spine of ipe decking and a series of playful round skylights draw one from the arrival point through the house to the living spaces and the wooded site beyond. A bold linear concrete wall links a new garage and studio, forming an entry court that simultaneously welcomes visitors and screens the private bedroom spaces nearby. Teak plywood cabinets, blackened steel, and Douglas Fir contrast with more modest materials such as painted MDF panels, fiber cement siding and simple drywall.
Visit the website of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson – here.
Photos by architectural photographer Nic Lehoux
alexandre on 27 Nov 2008 at 12:22 pm #
sometimes i’m blown away by how these houses can even stand up with so many glass walls…
ann on 27 Nov 2008 at 3:06 pm #
thats soo perfect, whats the heat loss like outta a house like that though?
raofyousif on 28 Nov 2008 at 10:29 am #
that woody house is so beautiful , i like this perfect desine.
www.nessoret.com on 28 Nov 2008 at 12:41 pm #
Wood has really increadible possibilities..
Even this house hs several spaces that very differ from one another .
very Nice
Tim Mitchell on 28 Nov 2008 at 2:12 pm #
Love to make a sculpture for this place. Tim
john woolington on 28 Nov 2008 at 8:27 pm #
I love modern houses that are isolated in the woods and bring nature inside. But this one is just a house. It doesn’t feel like anyone lives there. It feels like a house designed specifically for an architecual digest photo shoot.
Jason on 29 Nov 2008 at 10:13 am #
Nice work – this is the best house on their web site. Looks like they designed Bill Gates house too.
Seanybo on 29 Nov 2008 at 10:14 am #
Perfection
John on 29 Nov 2008 at 1:17 pm #
I love the modern home with a nature backdrop. I don’t see that combination very often and I really like it.
vijujako on 30 Nov 2008 at 4:47 pm #
I have never seen such a fusion between the inside and the outside
young designer on 01 Dec 2008 at 11:07 pm #
bring the outside in, was that the design concept?
The sky is falling on 03 Dec 2008 at 12:58 am #
Excellent use of lines on the horizontal plane.
I’m guessing over standard or double pane windows and thermal flooring.
Oh yea, get off my lawn!
BillSalem on 03 Dec 2008 at 4:29 pm #
Ordinarily I would pass by, say nothing. But this is so beautiful, I have to say something. Something like Frank Lloyd Wright, by way of Philip Johnson, by way of… I don’t know. But it is so appealing in its totally non-European but rather, very traditional Americanistic modernist way. I love to find the sweet spot of a building. The view which the architect saw and worked out of. But this building has many sweet spots. The question of energy loss is not an important consideration. If the materials don’t exist now which would hold energy in, they will be developed soon.
Design which outstrips materials is an old conundrum. If Wright had paid attention to it he would never have gotten to first base. I would live here in a trice.
Victor on 03 Dec 2008 at 5:45 pm #
Good looking but I would take this design if it was the office of an insurance company. Not very easy to clean if there are going to be kids, dogs and food around the place
leo on 04 Dec 2008 at 3:19 pm #
yeah, there’s nobody living there (according to those photos), I’d love to live there though.. lol
Al Downie on 04 Dec 2008 at 3:57 pm #
Is it true that, if you buy a house like that and you *do* leave a pair of old Adidas under the coffee table, the Architect can have you forcefully evicted?
Jamey Scally on 05 Dec 2008 at 7:53 pm #
Just magnificent.
mohan on 07 Dec 2008 at 1:49 pm #
It looks like a natural beauty…a better place to live,I love it.
Clubit.tv on 08 Dec 2008 at 6:25 am #
Quality, this house is amazing, thanks so much for posting pics
AShu on 09 Dec 2008 at 4:08 am #
Hope only common areas of the home have glass walls. Other private areas are having proper walls
aidan on 10 Dec 2008 at 7:58 pm #
Wood design is so perfect. thanks for this pic.
Marc on 14 Dec 2008 at 1:58 pm #
correct me if i’m wrong, but this looks like the house from the remake of “When A Stranger Calls” that came out a few years ago
Dave on 14 Dec 2008 at 2:56 pm #
The house in the 2006 version of “When A Stranger Calls” was not real, it was just a set built in Los Angeles, California.
Some photos of the house:
http://flickr.com/photos/a75/tags/franklincanyon/
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1576311040/tt0455857
jasen on 17 Dec 2008 at 11:18 pm #
Gorgeous wood house!! i like this perfect design!!
damon on 20 Dec 2008 at 11:30 pm #
I sure don’t want their heating bill! Maybe it’s a summer home?
maya on 26 Dec 2008 at 7:00 pm #
people keep saying it doesn’t look homey- but whenever you see houses on display they dont. obviously if someone moved in they could furnish it differently and add some pictures and personal items. Thats what would make it a home.
Personally i LOVE this house. Im from the seattle area and my heating bill is high enough- so im guessing this ones would be pricey. I really wouldn’t care if i lived here though, especially considering how much money you would need to have to live here in the first place
Think i saw a fireplace though. Maybe. That would be a cheap way to warm it up a little.
Guy Cruls on 04 Jan 2009 at 1:15 pm #
Yet another example of an exercise in modernism that should not have left the studio…
Extreme maximisation of glass surfaces does not make sense energy-wise.
Visitors who don’t know the place, who are middle age or have a bad vision or both are bound, sooner or later, to knock their heads into a glass wall.
Total lack of warmth.
Will probably serve as an exemplar of absurd design later in this 21st century.
Miguel on 09 Jan 2009 at 9:32 am #
I love this tipe of houses, i think they are a work of art.
Ian Dundrillon on 10 Feb 2009 at 9:12 pm #
Derivative of Philip Johnson’s “Glass House” in New Canaan, Conn., (1949), and the “Barcelona House” by Mies van der Rohe at the Barcelona Exposition (1929-1930). Very nice and ostensibly more functional.