5 Rose Lane
This 1200 square-foot house occupies a tiny lot on an urban street. The main room utilizes a timber frame built by the American College of the Building Arts. The frame had been built years earlier as a school project (a replica of a historic slave cabin) and later dismantled and put in storage.
The client bought the frame and asked us to design this house around it, adding insulation to the exterior so the timbers could be fully exposed inside. The house is on a narrow alley called Rose Lane, so I asked local woodcarver P.K. Smith to carve a rose for the gable ornament, which I painted in my workshop - an unexpected detail for an otherwise simple street. Designed by Andrew Gould and Tom Podhrazsky, with timber frame originally designed by Arnaud le Rouzic. Construction completed in 2025.
