dan hisel architect

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Projects / 9 Salem

Projects / House in Rye

This unique double lot in Somerville, MA came with a beautiful orchard filled with fruit trees and flowers.  The new design seeks to unify the home with its landscape through a contemporary,  single story addition attached to the rear of t

Projects / Orchard Keeper's House

The Heavy/Light House project involves the conversion of a privately owned, abandoned railroad trestle into a guest house for one or two travelers. The program calls for a full bathroom, one bed, a small efficiency kitchen, dining area, living room

Projects / Heavy/Light House

Projects / deManio/Downing

Projects / RAW Art

In 2013 Dan Hisel Architect was approached by RAW Art to assist with a much needed expansion.  DHA provided site analysis and consulting to arrive at a strategy of growing west, into the building next door. Three primary functions were needed

Projects / RAW Art Expansion

Home ReSource is a non-profit in Missoula MT that recycles building materials and educates the community about sustainable building practices. The “fencade”, (as it is dubbed by the crew at HR), shelters materials from the wind and snow, and acts as

Projects / Home ReSource

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Projects / Bird's Hill

This project is essentially a work of "Furnitecture." Bed + Shelves + Closets + Storage + Lamp + Dog Bed(!) = Z Box, a free-standing cube built inside a large space.

Projects / Z-Box

The Z-Loft continues investigations into interior domestic living begun by the Z-Box in 2004. Here the sleeping space is raised, lifted up into the vaulted space of a church-turned-condo unit.

Projects / Z-Loft

Z-Box 2 is a pre-fabricated version of the Z-Box prototype originally built in Lynn, MA. Constructed by Continental Consolidated Industries (now Blue Hive) in Worcester, MA, Z-Box 2 was built in a dozen chunks that are shipped to the client's loft,

Projects / Z-Box 2

The Cadyville Sauna was designed and constructed along the Saranac River in upstate New York. It is a compact structure, covered with mirrors. It is built up against a cliff, and the wall of rock forms one interior wall of the sauna. Twenty feet bel

Projects / Cadyville Sauna

This addition and renovation to a 2500 sq. ft. brick Italianate home in a Boston suburb employs simple contemporary interventions which allow the existing spaces to extend into their environment.  The new spaces, a first floor dining room and a

Projects / Belmont Residence

"The Lady of Shallot", 1905, William Holman Hunt

Projects / 4' Project

The Diehl Residence (unbuilt) is a complete transformation of an existing 1950's ranch on a beautiful wooded site along a river west of Boston. The existing house lies adjacent to wetlands and  inside a floodplain, limiting the project to a max

Projects / Diehl Residence

Inside the Lenox Hotel in Boston, MA, the Azure Bar is a bolt of light, transforming a rather sleepy dinning room into a hip, sophisticated and active environment. Inserted carefully into an existing space with a specific material palette, the desig

Projects / Azure Bar

The Panel House was developed for Hometta.com, a company that specializes in making modern design available as plan sets to homeowners and their builders. The Panel House is designed around the concept of a modular, variable skin that offers the cli

Projects / Panel House

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Projects / Andes Sprouts

DHA proposed the Artificial Landscape Generator (ALG), in their competition entry for a temporary installation /exhibition space under the Highline Park at West 24th street in NYC. The ALG is a low-tech, parallel universe to the Highline above. The

Projects / the A.L.G.

For more about this project, see Research

Projects / Blind