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Aldo Beach House on Hood Canal in Washington
Nov 10, 2020
Aldo Beach House
Design: Wittman Estes
Location: Hood Canal, Washington State, USA

Aldo Beach House transforms a 1940s beach house into a new multi-generational home?doubling the livable area while lightly touching the delicate ecology of the waterfront.

Two shifting wings hover over the hillside and beach supported by thin steel columns and pin piles. Located on the eastern shore of Hood Canal near the Bangor submarine base, the new beach house includes the original two-bedroom structure for an expanded program of two new bedrooms, two bathrooms, and flex space. The design consists of three distinct parts: the original footprint, and the two projecting wings: the first a south ground floor addition, and the second an upper-level master suite to the north.
Solving the Regional Problem of Building on a Fragile Shoreline

The house represents a regional northwest problem of building on fragile shoreline. ?Due to the complex constraints of the shoreline exemption, we kept to the existing footprint, expanding the house only from the existing structure,? says Matt Wittman, Principal at Wittman Estes. ?As a result, all new square footage is supported by compact pier foundations on pin piles.?

Native plantings and drought tolerant species were brought in to mitigate site disturbance and increase the ecological function of the site...