Tower for Two Boys Charlottesville, Virginia The clients requested a family room, two bedrooms for teenage boys, a study, and a 'carriage house' capable of accommodating a future 'in-law' apartment. The original two room cottage had previously received numerous additons and renovations resulting in a confusing plan and a front door in the rear of the house. The goal of the project was to provide the programmatic functions requested and simultaneously to bring order to the disparate pieces. The design solution creates a centrally located 'play yard' enclosed by a new carriage house, the boy's bedroom tower, and the sloping landscape, the new house focuses upon the resulting exterior space. The disparate pieces of the existing house are organized by the creation of a continuous stone base around the parts. The tower creates a vertical conclusion to the horizontality to the existing house.  download project as .pdf