Modernist House Design Competition Winners

Mark Herboth

Jury Selections – First Place: Banbury House, Raleigh, N.C. Ar… Jury Selections – First Place: Banbury House, Raleigh, N.C. Architect: John Reese, AIA, LEED AP, Weinstein Friedlein Architects Builder: Alphin Design Build Architect’s description: The owners sought a minimalist, private, and resilient environment for themselves and their houseguests that integrated modest interior spaces with an open-air exterior, including a private courtyard, lap pool, and cabana/carport. Jurors’ comments: This house displayed great rigor, from concept to detail. There is a compelling consistency to the architect’s thought. The sequence of spaces from outside to inside is choreographed with admirable restraint, using a few well-chosen materials to great effect. Layers of transparency make the house full of surprise and delight.

Mark Herboth

Jury Selections – Second Place: 1804 Pictou Road, Raleigh, N.C. … Jury Selections – Second Place: 1804 Pictou Road, Raleigh, N.C. Architect/Builder: Mike Rantilla, AIA, LEED AP Architect’s description: The unique form of the building is a literal response to the significant site challenges. Wedged between zoning setbacks, a stream buffer, and a steep slope, the program massing was squeezed vertically into a three-story scheme. Each floor level is expressed as a discrete rectangular volume clad in a different material and spun radially from a 40-foot-tall, 18-inch-thick solid concrete shear wall. This articulation of the volumes creates a wide variety of habitable outdoor spaces. The height of the mostly transparent upper volume set within the forest canopy evokes the feeling of a tree house. Jurors’ comments: This house works well on its forest hillside site, and must be a dramatic and wonderful place to live—a mixture of structural boldness and domestic intimacy. The house has a case study quality about it. As the case studies were often influential, we expect this building will be, too.

Mark Herboth

Todd Lanning

Jury Selections – Third Place: GREENville House, Greenville, N…. Jury Selections – Third Place: GREENville House, Greenville, N.C. Architect: Vinny Petrarca, Tonic Design Builder: Tonic Construction Architect’s description: The GREENville House/Walters Residence is composed of two primary design components: bars and panels. Each part works together to generate an environmentally sensitive response. Narrow bars branch out into the landscape to create courtyards, capture natural light, allow cross ventilation, and intersect to form a central volume of double-height public space. A structural system holding photovoltaic panels and perforated screens is responsible for creating the home’s energy and hot water while shading openings to alleviate unnecessary heat gain. Jurors’ comments: A large and ambitious house with many materials and details. Well-proportioned and vigorous, the house displays an uncommon passion for architecture. The materials and forms are stitched together like a beautiful quilt.

Todd Lanning

Adam Sebastian

Public Voting Winners – First Place: Hole One House, Clemmons, … Public Voting Winners – First Place: Hole One House, Clemmons, N.C. Designer: Adam Sebastian Builders: Ken McDaniel & Adam Sebastian Designer’s description: Located in the Yadkin River Valley near Clemmons, N.C., Hole One House features a passive solar design and is just 20 feet wide by 67 feet long. Designed to be as hyper-efficient as the budget would allow—$85 per square foot—the home features 2×6 and 2×8 wall construction, precast concrete basement/foundation walls, and spray foam insulation, in addition to highly efficient windows, appliances, and mechanical systems. The strong backward C-shaped form that the front of the home projects is intentional and serves several functions: to mitigate the summer sun (roof), to shield the arrant golf ball from hitting south-facing windows (wall), and to create a cantilevered balcony on the exterior (floor).

Adam Sebastian

Jacob Reinwand

Public Voting Winners – Second Place: The Althea Way House, Wil… Public Voting Winners – Second Place: The Althea Way House, Wilmington, N.C. Designer: Scott Ogden, B+O Studio Builder: ILM Design Build Designer’s description: The clients found a “remnant” site that borders a greenbelt/bike path and requested a low-maintenance, open house for their family of five to live and grow. B+O chose to break the owners’ program into four elements to create an open courtyard in this private, sylvan setting. The owners desired a clean, simple, contemporary design working with the lot in such a way that views of the greenbelt and north terrace are always present within the house.

Jacob Reinwand

Mark Herboth and Alphin Design Build

Public Voting Winners – Third Place: Graham Street Residence, R… Public Voting Winners – Third Place: Graham Street Residence, Raleigh, N.C. Designer/Builder: Will Alphin, Alphin Design Build Designer’s description: An overarching goal was to have the new home minimize its environmental impact, both during construction and over its planned 100-year lifetime. Sustainable, energy-efficient systems were incorporated into every aspect of the house, including the design, site orientation, mechanical systems, and materials. The building seeks to simultaneously fit within the context of the 1950s neighborhood, embrace the diverse influences of the Triangle area, utilize vernacular style and strategies appropriate for the Southern climate, and express our modern era of sustainability. Physically and metaphorically, the house carefully “hugs” a mature oak tree on the south side.

Mark Herboth and Alphin Design Build