Westside Duplex / Boyd Architects

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Text explanation provided by nan architects. Downtown Charleston is among nan astir historical and protected municipality environments successful nan United States. An tremendous magnitude of unit has been generated connected nan existing low-rise lodging banal by strict Architectural oversight, flooding, accelerated growth, and a myriad of different factors. This has forced each speculative projects to prosecute successful a rigorous creation process to contend pinch nan constellation of forces governing immoderate fixed portion of land.

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Westside Duplex is simply a strategical infill improvement successful Charleston’s historical Westside neighborhood. The organization is located betwixt nan arterial Septima Clark Parkway and Hampton Park, nan largest greenish abstraction connected nan peninsula. A important information of nan vicinity sits connected sandy infill onshore and virtually each properties are located wrong a flood zone.

Floor Plan

Floor Plan

Built wrong what was formerly a backyard for nan adjacent area lot, nan building is comprised of 2 townhouse-style units that were meticulously designed to maximize nan improvement imaginable of nan constrained site. The resulting shape represents what is efficaciously nan as-of-right information articulated by nan zoning, parking, flood zone, character protection, and functional requirements. Each of nan 2 units is 1,500 SF and has 3 bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, and a tile terrace. The side-loaded entries are bound by powder-coated aluminum screens which connection privateness from nan engaged thoroughfare and thief subvert nan reference of a lifted house. While technically 1 building, a ample vertical break successful nan beforehand cantilever delineates nan elevations of nan 2 units.

© Keith Isaacs Photo

© Keith Isaacs Photo

The facades and materiality correspond modern interpretations of historical Charleston architectural motifs. The building is clad pinch communal thigh siding, but executed pinch a thicker poly-ash worldly that allows for mitered corners and nan elimination of trim boards. The windows are vanished utilizing modular trim boards but rotated and installed connected extremity to springiness nan cognition of extent and lend to nan melodramatic protector patterns established by nan siding.

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Published connected May 13, 2023

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