McAuliffe + Carroll Architects

A Decade of Design

For Jon Roemer and his family, we have just completed a project for their home in Princeton that has been 10 years in the making.

Well... actually a series of projects...

In 2000, Jim was asked to look at the rear side of the house. It is a split level and the rear patio was a raw concrete at grade level:

The new design added a more graceful rear stair, a roomy colored concrete patio with wide steps down to the grass, a airy entrance to the lower basement and a new corrugated sheet clad storage shed:

This project was finished in 2001:

The rafters have a cut profile that is supposed to be "R" shaped. They look like happy faces eating ice cream:

Mid-decade Rich designed a new kitchen, foyer and entrance for the house:

Our website has many of the photos of this one, but the tall skylight form is a striking feature:

Last year Jon asked for a place for his studio adjacent to the patio. This, final, project has just been completed:

All the walls (and roof) are construction of SIP's with HardiPanel siding, with Galvalume metal trims:

It is quite cosy inside and sit comfortably in the rear yard:

JM

PACE in Vineland

Our second LIFE center is now under construction for South Jersey Healthcare, and it is moving along quickly.

While the exterior of the former Susuki car dealership has minimal changes to it reflecting the new use...

The interior is virtually a complete gut renovation:

 

The former service bay has had it's car lifts removed and will be transformed into two of the three Activities Rooms in the center:

We took advantage of the high structure here with high ceilings in the central spaces. The lower wall surfaces will be painted (in our usual colorful selections), while the upper surfaces will be a combination of painted walls and wedge shaped fabric acoustic panels:

 

The former showroom space will become the third Activities room. We are keeping the high gable ceiling and exposed trusses as a design feature. By the Spring there will be a fireplace on the left and TV on the right...

JM

Urban Infill Astoria Style

While this project is on hold for now, we look forward to it starting up again soon. On an extremely narrow lot with a significant slope down away from the sidewalk in the Astoria section of Queens, we maximized the zoning restrictions to create a new apartment building. Both the fron and rear facades will be glazed:

There are two duplex apartments each with two bedrooms:

The parking is located under the building:

 And the roof will be used by tenants as outdoor deck spaces:

JM