Keast & Hood provided structural design for a one-story residential addition along the Chesapeake Bay.
The 800-sf outdoor living room addition serves as cooking, gathering, and entertaining space within the re-imagined form of a screened porch. The addition is situated at the southeast corner of the existing house and incorporates complementary wood and brick. Bracing for the screened exterior walls was limited by the use of fixed-base (“flag pole” design) steel tube columns. The tubes rest on heavy grade beam foundations to resist wind forces. New exposed, built-up queen-post trusses were used in the new structure. The room’s focal-point fireplace features a firebox raised 18 inches above the floor on a structural concrete shelf. Structural analysis of the new building elements was done with proprietary STAAD-III finite element modeling software. Results were confirmed using manual analysis methods.
Keast & Hood provided structural design for a one-story residential addition along the Chesapeake Bay.
The 800-sf outdoor living room addition serves as cooking, gathering, and entertaining space within the re-imagined form of a screened porch. The addition is situated at the southeast corner of the existing house and incorporates complementary wood and brick. Bracing for the screened exterior walls was limited by the use of fixed-base (“flag pole” design) steel tube columns. The tubes rest on heavy grade beam foundations to resist wind forces. New exposed, built-up queen-post trusses were used in the new structure. The room’s focal-point fireplace features a firebox raised 18 inches above the floor on a structural concrete shelf. Structural analysis of the new building elements was done with proprietary STAAD-III finite element modeling software. Results were confirmed using manual analysis methods.
CLIENT: Merle Thorpe Architects, PLLC
LOCATION: St. Michaels, MD
TYPE: Residential, SERVICES: Addition, MATERIALS: Wood, SUSTAINABILITY: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Completed project photography © Anne Gummerson
