Located near the NC Museum of Art & visible from the walking trails around the Museum property

Modern architecture design featuring floor-to-ceiling windows, vaulted roofs, compound cantilevers, and sections of brick pavers integrated into the floor framing system in areas of the house. We provided early design consultation to help improve structural design efficiency and help determine areas that could be improved in value, engineering, and constructability.

Oke Nichols provided the subsequent structural design for the project including the cast-in-place concrete foundation walls, the walkable carport roof, and all of the other structural framing elements.

Oke Nichols also provided periodic site inspections to check footings, the cast-in-place concrete walls, specific parts of the structural framing, and a final engineering conformance inspection that the general contractor used as a resource for his final city inspection.

The project has extended roof overhangs beyond your typical 24” max allowable by building code.  It has multiple sets of floor-to-ceiling windows where the headers were integrated as part of the rim band system at the top of the wall.

Most of the 2nd floor is vaulted below the roof.  One of the defining features is that the walkable area over the carport includes a wooden deck integrated into a green roof system with grass so that the owner can walk off the deck and onto a raised lawn.