STADIUM DUPLEX
Set on a site constrained by overlapping easements, utility lines, and right-of-way cuts, Stadium Duplex confronts the challenges of residual urban property through precision, restraint, and a commitment to dignified density. The project introduces three duplexes, six units total, into a fragmented site typically overlooked for infill housing, creating a small-scale multifamily development that is both pragmatic and architecturally deliberate.
Rather than impose uniformity, each unit responds to its specific position on the site through subtle formal variation. A simple gable form is used throughout, but each building is modified through subtraction: terraces, entries, and cuts are carved from the massing in response to privacy, solar orientation, and access. These voids are clad in natural wood, providing a material contrast to the industrial cement board envelope and emphasizing the act of carving: wood as reveal.
This subtractive logic makes each unit spatially distinct while maintaining a consistent architectural language. The result is a family of buildings that feel related but never repetitive, variations on a theme composed with attentiveness to proportion, rhythm, and adjacency.
PRIVATE RESIDENCE
YEAR 2019
BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS
Photos by Ozark Modern
Contracting by Mary Hegarty
Engineering by Hall Engineering and Bates Engineering
Material restraint heightens legibility. The buildings are clad in cement board, chosen for its durability and economy, with carefully detailed moments of warmth introduced through wood at key thresholds and recesses. The continuity of materials across all units ties the ensemble together, even as each structure adapts to its position within the site’s complex weave of constraints.
Stadium Duplex proposes a model for dignified infill housing. One that meets the economic realities of speculative development without sacrificing spatial quality, urban responsiveness, or architectural clarity.