MW Works Architecture’s Push_Pull Residence Fits into Tight Site in Seattle

On a narrow urban lot in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, <a href="http://www.mwworks.com/">MW Works Architecture</a> combined modern design with smart, sustainable planning to create a 4,090-square-foot home. The <a href="http://www.mwworks.com/Projects/Push-Pull.php?index1=1&amp;index2=1">Push_Pull Residence</a>, creatively named for the spatial qualities created in this project, is a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom home that stretches 120 feet within a 30 foot wide lot. For its creative and sustainable response to this difficult site, MW Works Architecture received an award last year from AIA Seattle.

s MW Works pushed and pulled the spaces of the residence within the site, the building began to form natural courtyards that gave the family privacy and natural light.

The long face of the home opens up to natural light due to a three foot setback from the property line.

The ends of the home provide landscaped spaces, which are easily pulled into the home through wonderful storefront windows.

The designers, along with contractors <a href="http://www.hummelbrunnerconstruction.com/">Hummelbrunner Construction</a>, also blurred the transition of the outdoor and indoor spaces by continuing a lot of the exterior materials into the home (or visa versa).

Materiality through the home was also very important, not only because of the quality of space created through the use of rich, natural materials, but also because certain materials were used for sustainable reasons.

During the demolition of the previous home that sat on this site, the design and construction team salvaged the framing and milled it into Douglas Fir siding.