Custom Residential

North Fork Shop

A long, low workshop beside an existing house, lit by a clerestory over the bench wall.

Type
Custom Residential
Setting
North Fork, a fictional community
The North Fork Shop, a long low workshop with a sawtooth clerestory roof.

North Fork Shop is an accessory building in the concept: a place to work with the doors open and the house still in sight. The roof repeats a low sawtooth so daylight falls on the bench without a wall of glass at eye level.

The plan is deliberately simple. A concrete slab, a timber and steel enclosure, one large door, and a short run of storage along the back wall. The existing house is left alone.

Shown here as a fictional project so the portfolio can include a working building, not only formal rooms.

Scope

  • Slab and stem wall
  • Timber and steel enclosure
  • Clerestory roof over the bench
  • One equipment door and a personnel door
  • Power and task lighting along the bench wall

What the drawings show

  • Sawtooth clerestory
  • Unfinished interior appropriate to a shop
  • Short covered link toward the existing house
  • Storage bay kept out of the working aisle
  • The North Fork Shop and its clerestory roof along the long wall.
    Long wall
  • Clerestory roof and wood door of the North Fork Shop.
    Clerestory
  • Steel, timber, and concrete samples for the North Fork Shop.
    Material samples
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