This course is part of the Custom Home Academy

This webinar is part of the Custom Home Academy

This webinar will explore recent trends in remodeling and renovation projects that enhance the occupied space's biophilic design. Data strongly suggests that our aging population is unwilling to move due to high-interest rates, unstable markets, and limited inventory. Yet as this market ages in place, it also seeks ways to introduce the health benefits associated with biophilic design, including more light and fresh air in their living space. This perfect storm of equity-positive homeowners and innovative products and design options has energized the remodeling and renovation industry, creating opportunities for architects and designers to improve homeowners' health and welfare and expand the impact of well-designed living spaces for generations.

The Up Studio’s John Patrick Winberry will present the firm’s Sight Sea is a Hamptons home on a picturesque property that wasn't taking advantage of the available sightlines toward the oceanfront. With a series of deliberate architectural gestures, we were able to shift the views back to the water without disturbing much of the existing residence. The result is a visually cohesive renovation that provides the homeowner with a greater connection to nature.

Nicole Semple of Semple + Rappe Architects will present "The Roost", a residential project. Located in a post-war development in Evanston, Illinois, this late 1940’s tract home was one of fifty built by a single developer. A one and a half story addition envelopes the home to create a modern update to its simple, mid-century form.

The expanded first floor, with zero or low-threshold entrances, was created with universal design features that will allow the client to age-in-place. Windows and skylights are placed to maximize daylight and capture specific exterior views while blocking out neighbors. All-electric systems and foam insulation have turned a once leaky home into a modern, adaptable, and climate-friendly building. The original roofline maintains the scale and character of the neighborhood, while the crisp new color palette differentiates it from the other homes on the street.

Eric Gjerde of Seaglass Architects, will present the firm’s Hadley House, Located on one of Wenham’s most historic streets, "Welcome to Hadley House" a Second empire home that is truly one of a kind. Purchased 2021, by a renowned Boston developer with local ties, he and his team have created the perfect blend of old and new. The home has been meticulously designed with historic details that were lost and we used historic pictures to help guide the exterior restoration to as close as it was in the 1880’s including a wrap-around covered porch with Victorian Folk influences. The entry is now off Main Street as it was in 1834 inviting guests to a foyer that leads to a gourmet hand crafted custom kitchen/pantry with casual living that engages the rear landscape. The stair now connects the luxurious primary suite and 3rd floor sleeping penthouse and loft space with incredible attention to detail and finish in every space.

Biophilic Concept - The home was rotated and moved from the 1880 existing location to the original 1834 placement with better views, natural light and connection to the landscape and street. The home renovation has all new energy star historic proportion aluminum clad double hung windows that match the original glass size of the existing windows. The exterior wood framing was salvaged and we incorporated all new closed cell insulation with many areas for zoning with heating and cooling. We will discuss the challenges of renovating a historic home and how we made slight changes and additions with the mindset of historic sensitivity. We like to think of this home as an old new home for today's lifestyle.

At the end of these dynamic presentations, there will be a brief Q&A session to discuss key points from the webinar.

Photo courtesy of The UP Studio

Sight Sea - Amagansett Oceanfront Renovation

	John Patrick Winberry, AIA is the founding partner and architect at The Up Studio, an architecture, interior, and brand design studio in New York City specializing in contemporary design. John’s approach to architecture balances theory and approachability, comfortably guiding the client to an understanding of complex design theories. He is particularly drawn to simplicity and duality in design, using minimalist designs to maximize solutions across projects all while trying to bring joy and fun to the process.
	Nicole Ellis Semple, AIA is principal and co-owner of Semple+Rappe Architects in Chicago, Illinois; a resourceful, collaborative firm focused on enriching the lives of their clients through design. She joined the firm (formerly Kuklinski+Rappe Architects) immediately after receiving her Bachelor of Architecture from Kansas State University in 2006. These eightteen years of professional practice have been dedicated to learning and growing a primarily residential practice; working closely with clients to improve their homes and small businesses. She excels at listening to and advocating for her clients and has a unique ability to translate their vision into a built reality. In addition to the many private residential clients in the Chicago, Milwaukee, and Southwest Michigan area, Semple+Rappe Architects has completed projects for the Cook County Forest Preserve District, Chicago Park District, and Hilton Hotels.
	Eric Gjerde AIA, is an award winning licensed architect in Massachusetts with over 25 years’ experience in the profession. He is a graduate of Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA. Eric enjoys showing his clients options and discussing visual trade-offs so the option they pick to build can be done with confidence and clarity. His professional experience ranges from restaurants to custom homes, historic preservation, additions and renovations, multi-family rental and condominium developments, as well as commercial tenant improvements for various client types. He has a focus on sustainable design that is practical and makes economic sense, while presenting topics that allow the users of a building to become more aware of their lifestyle, which is the most important part of green building. When it comes to adding on to significant residential architecture, Eric enjoys detailing and designing as if he was the original architect, often by using existing details replicated on the newly added forms as well as using lines of the existing architecture to communicate with the addition. The goal is to have seamless integration, so the addition is part of the whole with both complimenting each other.