babienko ARCHITECTS pllc

Architect - Seattle, WA

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5.0

based on 11 online reviews

Average rating

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5.00

5.0

based on 11 online reviews
based on 11 ratings

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Date

Description

Cost

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Metier Racing & Coffee

Nov 2015

Located in Capitol Hill, Métier is an adaptive reuse of a 1900’s Auto Row warehouse building, which was originally constructed as an auto parts retail store and was most recently used as a second hand thrift shop. We were tasked with minimizing our intervention to the building structure and avoiding triggering a substantial alteration while introducing and blurring together multiple program areas: a retail store, a café & bar, exercise & training facilities and a bike repair shop. The strategic decision to remove a portion of the main floor plate to facilitate access to the lower level via a new central stair also succeeded in extending daylighting to the basement and establishing a visual connection between all three levels. The intervention of the stair revitalized the character of the building while remaining honest to the existing building form. We stripped the building down to its natural materials, colors, and textures from top to bottom, revealing some of the history of the building as well as its construction means and methods. These discoveries served to reinforce our early design decisions while guide and inform our finish material choices for the new facility

$750k

Seattle, WA

MTM residence

Sep 2014

We were challenged with renovating and adding to an existing home in a modest Seattle neighborhood, without creating a house which was out of scale with the rest of the homes on the street. Removing the applied postage stamp entry, we reorganized the family’s circulation and living patterns to activate long forgotten spaces. The new lower level entry serves the family’s day to day lifestyle, extracurricular activities, and desire for a welcoming entrance for cocktail party guests. The back of the home was extended into the backyard and the threshold between interior and exterior spaces was broken down into a seamless transition. We intentionally avoided an uber modern aesthetic and instead developed an interior and exterior vocabulary of craft and detail which captures an understated northwestern contemporary sensibility.

$500k

Seattle, WA