Virginia-based studio David Jameson Architect has designed the Barcode House project in 2011. This three story contemporary home is located in Washington DC, USA. According to the architect: “Barcode House explores juxtapositions between the heavy and light and the old and the new. Site constraints dictated a vertically oriented spatial solution. The project entailed creating a freestanding, modern addition to an existing, vertically-oriented urban row house. The extension is composed of a completely see-through, two-story, glass structure in front of a narrow concrete tower. The client’s desire for transparent living space generated the opportunity to create an integrated solution for lateral force requirements. Structural steel rods within a glass window wall are aligned with datum lines of the neighboring building elevations. A stucco circulation tower anchors the living space to the existing row house. The little balcony off the kitchen also features a barcode inspired railing constructed from the same steel rods.”
Photos by Paul Warchol Photography.
