jerrygropp
jerrygropp
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I'm a long-time, very well-known residential architect specializing in Pacific NorthWest Contemporary design. I'm now retired but I still do a lot of reasonable-cost on-site "affordable consulting"regarding the condition of existing NorthWest homes for the present owners or prospective owners who want to maintain the basic character yet bring their abode into the 21st Century. I also help determine and/or suggest any/all remodeling or updating possibilities. Our own 1955 completely redone Mercer Island, WA home is an example of what I do and just how I do it as shown on my two updated jgWebSite(s)
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http://knol.google.com/k/jerry-gropp-architect-aia/jerry-gropp-architect-aia-ps-here-are/246qxuxd260sm/135#view
http://jgropp2.googlepages.com/alterationsanadditions
Although I'm a native Seattlelite- born and raised in Seattle and a graduate of the University of Washington's highly-regarded School of Architecture, I'm widely-travelled having been with my wife to fifty five countries so far (many of them multiple times), as well as all of the seven continents including Antarctica as well as the Arctic.
I thoroughly understand the NorthWest climate and other localized considerations we home designers must take into account. Eastern and mid-Western styles- many with wide white trim- are usually out of place here on the West Coast.
It's much better to have a more expansive connection with nature than that glimpsed through smaller "stock" windows is needed to enjoy what's outside and to bring a feeling of needed spaciousness to any interior. My personal hallmark of "NorthWest Architecture"- Island or otherwise- is exposed natural wood framing with lots of job-built "stopped-in" windows bringing in the outside view and/or garden. The resulting effect is akin to that of our modern cars with the building envelope being either solid or transparent. This is in contrast to the usual ordinary building practice of framing a big box with cut-out openings limited by the sizes of often expensive and overly complicated stock windows.
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