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Views of the artist’s retreat.

At the very edge of the District, where a spur of the Pinehurst Trail The clients, who were looking to make the property as cohesive
meets one of the city’s original boundary stones, the regular grid as possible while balancing built elements of a neo-colonial house
of the L’Enfant Plan crashes against the border, resulting in an with a modern addition and a forgettable garage outbuilding, first
awkward, non-rectilinear lot. The main house upon that Barnaby turned to landscape architects Moody Graham to unify the
Woods lot is aligned with the east-west orientation of the facing multi-level backyard connecting them. “We looked at [the yard]
street, while the long edge of the property line runs northwest to and immediately said that there’s an opportunity to simplify this, to
southeast. The resulting residual space, which also slopes downward tie in a lawn space with this garage, which we saw potential for as
in that direction, provides an opportunity for landscape and more of a destination,” recalled Ryan Moody, ASLA. “We proposed
architecture to work in tandem to transform the backyard into a some initial concepts to them, and they got excited about the idea.
garden sanctuary, anchored by a new artist’s retreat. It was obviously a little bit broader of a project than they originally

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