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Work is progressing quickly at the Hatch Cottage restoration thanks to our talented crew and your support! The Hatch Cottage will be ready to host our artist residencies in Spring 2013. This year we are hosting six teams of designers participating in an affordable housing competition. More on this later.

 

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CCMHT

PO Box 1191

South Wellfleet, MA 02662

Add-on'13: Affordable Housing Competition Goes To Second Phase. Six Finalists Selected.

  

Wellfleet and surrounding communities on the issue. Add-on'13 grew from a collaboration of interested organizations to try to enlist the wider design community in generating fresh ideas on the area's critical affordable housing challenge.

Six finalists (out of 120 entries), have been selected by our jury to participate in the second phase of this competition for an freestanding, 800sf accessory dwelling.

To see finalists go to:  addon13.blogspot.com

A question and answer event will be host by the Wellfleet Community Forum on May 26th, ( 3 pm, Wellfleet Library) with the finalists, Wellfleet boards concerned with housing, the general public and people interested in possible building an Affordable Accessory Dwelling Unit (AADU)

In Phase Two, finalists will develop  their designs to address sustainability, budget,  construction strategy and the possibility of combining three units into a mini-cluster for a second site in Wellfleet.

The final distinguished jury will select the winning individual or team, on Aug. 13, followed by a panel and reception at the Wellfleet Congregational Church.

Winners will receive a cash prize. The work of finalists and some other selected participant's will be exhibited at the new Boston Society of Architects galley on Boston's waterfront and may travel to other towns on the Cape and Islands.

The Outer Cape has a rich tradition of small, experimental houses designed and lived in by some of the great innovators of the 20th century. Finalists will each have a week-long artist / scholar residency in one of the modern houses restored by The Cape Cod Modern House Trust with the help of donors, volunteers, the Wellfleet Community Preservation Committee, and the people of Wellfleet.

The Add-on'13 Committee includes:

Peter McMahon, Duks Koschitz, Tulay Atak and representatives from:

Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT), Cape and Islands Chapter of the Boston Society of Architects (BSA), Wellfleet Housing Authority (WHA) and the Cape Cod Home Builder's Assoc. (CCHBA) 

For more details please see: 

addon13.blogspot.com

Add-on '13 - Affordable, Accessory Dwelling Competition, 2013

Add-on'13, an open competition for a freestanding affordable housing unit on Outer Cape Cod, intends to bring fresh thinking to the critical issue of affordable housing by connecting local stakeholders with the broader design community. The emphasis will be on innovative designs which also address energy consumption and resource conservation.

The town of Wellfleet, has enacted a bylaw, that allows for an additional affordable rental unit on the lot of an existing house. 

The goal is to facilitate incremental and diffuse growth of much needed affordable housing as more home owners (and surrounding towns) participate.

A jury will select six finalists, who will receive week-long

residencies at one of the experimental, modern houses restored by the

Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT). The projects will be exhibited in

Wellfleet and at the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) gallery in

Boston. The show may also travel to other locations on the Cape and

Islands. The first place winner will receive a cash prize.

For more information please visit the Add-on '13 website.

http://addon13.blogspot.com

Cape Cod Modern House Trust

January 15 2013

Hatch Progress

Restoration of the Hatch House is progressing quickly.

100% of the prefab deck sections are assembled and re-pouring of the foundation piers began this week. 

When the piers are finished and damaged framing is replaced, the new deck will be installed.

Many thanks to our wonderful workers on site, helping to move things forward. Below are a few. Many thanks to Stan,
our concrete guru, who we didn't get a shot of.

Luke stacking pre-fabricated deck sections

Cesare staining deck sections 

Fir Deck Close Up

Jack cutting stock

Construction Manager Vasilios Katsavrias

Jason, Elizabeth and Kathy stain deck sections

John M. Johansen

In Memoriam

We are sad to report the passing of John Johansen. John had been a long time summer resident, and recently, a year-around resident of Wellfleet with his wife Ati Gropius Johansen.

Michael Sorkin said of him "Johansen has always been an architect committed to ideas: scientific, architectural, and cultural. His work is filled with a sense of response to agendas that are always broader than the narrow limits of his immediate problems at hand."

He continued writing, composing, enjoying his many close friends, and working on new concepts of what architecture could be right to the end. 

Hands On Help Needed

We are looking for help w/ restoration of the Hatch and Weidlinger houses between now and the end of May.

You get: Free lodging at the beautiful Kugel/Gips House, a stipend and great experience doing historic restoration work. 

Please let us know about your availability and experience.

info@ccmht.org

Historic New England's Modernist Immersion Week