GROPIUSBAU

A new visitor center volume and a pair of reversible restroom modules reorder the arrival landscape of a historic 1938 property without compromising its fabric or spatial hierarchy. Positioned on the west side of the driveway and aligned with the existing garage, the visitor center establishes a legible public sequence from parking to orientation to house, keeping the main residence as a protected, distant referent. Generated by extruding the garage's road-facing edge, the addition reads as a measured thickening of the outbuilding hierarchy; metal slats calibrated to the cadence of the original wood boarding mark it as new while maintaining continuity through rhythm and scale. Inside the garage, two back-to-back stainless-steel restroom modules are installed as a freestanding, demountable pod — governed by a 3×3-foot grid and produced through machine folding — so the historic envelope remains intact and fully reversible. The same constructive logic scales from enclosure to furniture, unifying fabrication, form, and use within a single system across both volumes.