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between the public and private zones,” he said. “All of its neighbors, by using natural materials and incorporating
a sudden, instead of being in the underside of a gable those easily relatable gable forms, it still manages to fit in,
space, when you’re back at the eating area, you’re in the according to Jameson.
inverse of it where the lowest section is close to you. It In some ways, this project is a return home for
creates an intimacy.” Jameson, whose office was located in Alexandria for its
Along with intimacy, the house also creates a sense first decade. “You know how many projects I got built in
of authenticity through a restrained palette of materials Alexandria?” he asked. “None—and there’s a reason for
limited to stone for the front wall, wood for the garage that: What I do doesn’t really work there.” But now, by
box, copper for the roof, custom steelwork for doors and nestling unabashedly modern forms beneath a roofline
the fireplace enclosure, and plaster and glass everywhere that evokes its more traditional neighbors, he’s finally
else. Even though the house offers a dramatic contrast to found a way to make it work.

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