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Project type: Single Family Residential

Project status: Permitted

Project info: The client for this project is a young family who has been living in a small 1920's Spanish Revival home on a large corner lot in the North Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, FL. This client wanted to maintain the character and scale of their small home, yet build a tropical and contemporary addition that better fits their growing family and the historic Coconut Grove neighborhood at-large. In an effort to echo the existing home, while meeting the program needs of the client, the project employs a low sloped roof with exposed wood rafters inside and out. The facade of the addition compliments the historic rock wall around the property, and stucco and wood details of the original home. This is all nestled into a mature garden. It was important for the client to retain a strong connection to the garden, so the project has many areas of circulation as covered outside space, with a breezeway on the first floor and a wrap-around porch on the second floor.