Each of the photos show aspects of methods which would allow the three Bedrooms on the upper level function as one integrated space and a three individual work areas with good visual and acoustic privacy.

This will require reducing the Bathroom to a Toilet Room, expanding one BR over the CyberCafe, extending the landing platform slightly so that a single space is created - at the top of the stairs - which provides open space and circulation around the Elevator. When their sliding wall-doors are opened, the three rooms will “read” as one space with three private work areas converging as a collaborative work experience. This is much more congruent for the the Johnsonville Way and for the relationship of the Learning Center Team Members than will three rooms which separate their energy. It also provide one more intimate collaboration work space of which there will not be too many when this project is finished.

By providing an armature across these three room several qualities are accomplished: Lighting can be provided which can be controlled to fit mood and level of light to the work at hand; The sliding, folding partition-doors will have track to run on; The vertical space, in conjunction with skylights and light tubes, can be enhanced by the room-within-a-room space which will work, in combination with the adjustable “look down” openings, vertically and horizontally to remove the somewhat crowded feeling inherent in the existing structure.

The actual private areas and workstations,of the three team Members will be bach in the three corners of this space situated to look diagonally toward the center common area. This does several things. It emphasizes the diagonal principle which will open the sense of space greatly; it facilitates semiprivate working while still allowing eye contact; it opens the walls for openings, book cases and WorkWalls; it easily affords the closing of the space into two or three rooms.

The stairway to the main level we require some modification in order not to impinge as much as it does into what will be the main focal point of the Radiant Room.

What is relevant about the photos shown here is how the WorkFurniture and Armature pieces, while providing many utility functions, shape the space of the rooms and transforms the character of the space. The reason for a meaning of the space is revealed in it structure.

Two of these environments are home workplaces the others are business and medical environments. Their construction spans 18 years. All of them use one aspect or another of space-within-a-space and some form of Armature. All employ the same basic construction grammar.

When the individual “offices” are built, they will be adapted to the specific requirements of each individual Member occupant. This will be done, however, with an eye to the universal principles behind the requirements and the spaces will be design and built for easy reconfiguration. Work spaces last beyond the term of any individual.

In principle, the Office spaces are no different in flexibility, utility and amenity, from the larger group areas yet they are contained in an more intimate space. In fact, the three offices can be quickly configured into a mini design center of their own for their occupants and and few guests.

While PODs will not be employed in their full form, POD-like skins can be used to “close” the private work areas and “open” them to the larger common area(s). These rounded closures will fit to the existing square walls making us of existing corners. Workstations, tables and storage units will roll making reconfiguration easy. Armature “arms” will bring lighting to appropriate places as well as define the spaces. It may well be that it is with the Office spaces that we will establish the scale and “look” for the entire interior retrofit while being a direct algorithm of the Johnsonville management philosophy.

These partial Front and Rear Elevations show the major alterations to the house in the Phase I and Phase II work. For full Preliminary Plan Elevations and Sections with commentary, to to part 2 of 3 of this document (note: there has been a minor evolution of what is shown here as we moved from Schematic to Preliminary). On the Front Elevation, The Greenhouses added to the (old Garage) Cybercafe and the projection added to the upper level Leadership Team WorkSpaces is the major work. Not shown is the Security Lobby, ADA ramp and planters at the Entry (see Preliminary Elevations).

The Greenhouses, constructed with steel and glas constitute a new grammar to the exiting building. The upper level, projection as well as the projection on the rear of the house to the radiant Room (old Living Room) both employ elements of the exiting house yet add to them. They will be built with materials and detailing consistent with the objective of ultimately rendering the entire exterior of the exiting house in as much of the Craftsman style idiom as is possible. This is consistent with the building”s new use and the history of the region. The “modern” builder-style residence has no legitimate historical basis no valid future. It is a mixed bag of borrowed styles and mixed grammars.

The projection of the Radian Room accomplishes several objectives: The room is no longer crowded by the stairway and now orients itself 90 degrees - looking to the river- from its present one. It provides a “T” sitting formation for dialogs, report outs and presentations. It distinguishes the rooms - Radiant Rooms A, B and C - when they are divided into individual workspaces. It provides a partial shelter to the lower Terrace - pulling the eye outward - and provides as similar reorientation and distinction to Learning Room A, as it does upstairs, without expanding the foundations and foot print of the house. On the Preliminary Plans, a circular stairway is shown providing direct access from the main level Deck off the Radiant Room to the Terrace of Learning Room A. This stairway also provides ADA emergency exit from the high side of the building. The Terrace created by the projection, plus the new Glass and wood French doors with the extending fin walls at the sides, provides a mix of prospect and refuge now missing from the rear of the building with appears and feels cut off and exposed without “embracing” the landscape in any real way.

The projection also greatly enhances the vertical space of the Radiant Room while resolving the awkward roof configurations now present. In fact, the space created by the addition of the gable roof presents an opportunity for some functional employment of the space. A future technology loft, properly placed, will improve the vertical and horizontal volumes of the room while adding most likely needed future capability. In addition to the utility added, this will reinforce the principle of use-expression integration. The space three dimensional provided must be appropriate for the activity is houses.