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Rugby Duplex


Under Construction 

Client: Private


Team: Lindsey Wikstrom, Jean Suh, Emma Jurczynski

Rugby Duplex is an adaptive reuse project that incorporates, among other ideas, a reused bowling alley from one of the fi rst bowling alleys in the nation. Bowling Alleys are uniquely equipped for reuse in that they combine hardwood maple and softwood pine together to form a cost-effective, durable place where heavy balls could be dropped. This cozy and materially rich renovation used deep color and authentic woods, ceramics, and terracotta to create a new forever home for a couple near Ditmas Park. Each room is dynamic and sensitively framed, connected to the room next door, but not by too much. The client wanted to feel a good fl ow through the home without creating an entirely open fl oor plan. To meet this goal, we used built in shelving as a separating partition between the living and dining rooms, and a low peninsula to separate the kitchen from the dining room. Circulation spaces are saturated in deep color to create thresholds between rooms that are used everyday, making the seemingly mundane feel very much alive.


Rugby Duplex





          

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Under Construction

Client: Private

Team: Lindsey Wikstrom, Jean Suh, Emma Jurczynski

Rugby Duplex is an adaptive reuse project that incorporates, among other ideas, a reused bowling alley from one of the fi rst bowling alleys in the nation. Bowling Alleys are uniquely equipped for reuse in that they combine hardwood maple and softwood pine together to form a cost-effective, durable place where heavy balls could be dropped. This cozy and materially rich renovation used deep color and authentic woods, ceramics, and terracotta to create a new forever home for a couple near Ditmas Park.

Each room is dynamic and sensitively framed, connected to the room next door, but not by too much. The client wanted to feel a good fl ow through the home without creating an entirely open fl oor plan. To meet this goal, we used built in shelving as a separating partition between the living and dining rooms, and a low peninsula to separate the kitchen from the dining room. Circulation spaces are saturated in deep color to create thresholds between rooms that are used everyday, making the seemingly mundane feel very much alive.