We are happy to report and shameless enough to share the latest mention of Wittehaus in the press.

NC Architecture - AIA NC Single-Family Residential Firm Issue

A quick introduction of our work by way of two projects. Somehow they managed to showcase my family while they were at it.

Woung House

>> A wall she walked by in her childhood in Jamaica was the memory our client brought to us. The need to make it handicap accessible and to provide a live-in suite over the garage was added, as well as the wish to keep as many trees as possible.

So we surveyed the woods, cut up the functions of the house, weaved a masonry wall through the trees and reassembled the house all around it. And then we traced the movements through the house and provided views at every turn, inviting the exterior back in. We took a long look at the topography, exposed concrete floors on solid ground and wood floors over shallow crawl spaces and engineered zero-edge transitions, and provided for 3-foot-wide doors and 5-foot turning radii to make the home a playground for a wheelchair.

Witte Home

This was a tricky one. How to squeeze five family members into 1710 square feet and make it feel spacious? How to make it feel open and luxurious on a shoestring budget? And how to harness Toby's design fervor and focus his attention on these goals? For this was a house for his family. Let's just say the stakes were high.
As for understanding our clients, he had a leg up.
He structured the home around three ideas. Give the daughters each a spacious room on the top floor
and let them stick out from each other with connecting windows, so that the sisters always have a sense of each other. Create a loft environment downstairs where the parents' private spaces overlap with the public family spaces through sliding panels and a signature wall. Eliminate all square feet-robbing walk-in closets and instead provide a slew of built-in wardrobes, niches and shelving. <<

~ Toby