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Z HOUSE.

Title:: Z House
Architect:: Hisel Flynn Architects
Category:: Planning/; Renders
Building style:: Modern
Photographers:: Hisel Flynn Architects

A house with a Z-shaped ground floor plan

This house for a young family in Gloucester, Massachusetts navigates a tight site with a Z-shaped ground floor plan. The front leg of the Z houses a garage/shop for the car-enthusiast client, and creates an entry court for the driveway. The diagonal line through the plan generates the front entry, and flows through to define space between the interior public spaces and the rear patio. The program for this home in a beach-side community requires an ample mudroom and storage for beach gear, as well as an exterior shower. The rest of the first floor plan Z holds the family room, kitchen, dining and living. The second story box containing bedrooms and laundry is articulated as an independent box stacked on top of the first floor. Slat screen wall cladding helps accentuate the formal difference, and provides both privacy and shading for the bedrooms.

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Hisel Flynn Architects. Hisel Flynn is a New England architecture studio founded by Dan Hisel and Katie Flynn. We design residential and mission-driven projects for clients who believe architecture should enrich how we live. Guided by optimism, honesty, stewardship, and community, we think of architecture as a frame for celebrating everyday life. A window can sharpen morning light, a doorway can slow a transition. A long table can draw people together. When architecture clarifies space and its experience, it heightens the moments unfolding within it. Much of our work begins with what already stands: mid-century homes, established neighborhoods, meaningful sites. We study what gives a place its character and extend it with care. We bring light into dark corners, refine circulation, and strengthen connections to the landscape. We balance proportion, practicality, and environmental responsibility in each decision. We practice mission-driven modernism, designed for the long arc of a life in a place. Our buildings frame the ordinary with quiet generosity and leave people, places, and communities better than we found them.