Renovated Bath

Renovations and Additions

Renovations are alterations within an existing building to accommodate new uses or needs. This can be contrasted with a restoration, whose aim is to preserve an existing structure for continuing use.

Additions are alterations to an existing building that occur outside a building's original footprint.

Both renovations and additions require the Architect to do field investigations and prepare survey drawings of the pre-existing construction, if no reliable previous documentation exists.

The critical junctures in any renovation or addition construction is where "new" meets "old". It is at these junctures that costly errors can be made if insufficient effort is expended in ensuring the proper fit between new and old elements and systems.

Gorman Architects' approach to residential renovations and additions is to have the new work blend into the existing structure, improving on the existing architectural statement where warranted, respectfully restraining where not.