Webb School Faculty Housing Duplex

Webb School Faculty Housing Duplex: The Webb Faculty Housing Duplex is part of the Webb School campus, and is designed to provide visiting faculty with a comfortable place to live with their families. To blend the duplex unobtrusively into the surrounding single-family residential neighborhood, it was set back from the main road at an angle. Setting the building on the site in this way relates it to the campus, instead of the street. Additionally, the building was designed on a smaller scale, and uses special architectural details - such as the arch above the entry and cast stone accents - to avoid an apartment-like appearance.

The building's design was inspired by the many existing Spanish-style buildings built in the early 1900s within Claremont. The building further relates to the local ecology by nestling against a 150-year old oak tree on the property. Architecturally, the tile roof and palette of exterior colors are also similar to another important building on the Webb Campus, the W. Russell Fawcett Memorial Library. Utilizing these architectural details creates connections to the campus while paying homage to the local architecture and community of Claremont.

(Progress photo of the Duplex)

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Webb School Faculty Housing Duplex: The Webb Faculty Housing Duplex is part of the Webb School campus, and is designed to provide visiting faculty with a comfortable place to live with their families. To blend the duplex unobtrusively into the surrounding single-family residential neighborhood, it was set back from the main road at an angle. Setting the building on the site in this way relates it to the campus, instead of the street. Additionally, the building was designed on a smaller scale, and uses special architectural details - such as the arch above the entry and cast stone accents - to avoid an apartment-like appearance. The building's design was inspired by the many existing Spanish-style buildings built in the early 1900s within Claremont. The building further relates to the local ecology by nestling against a 150-year old oak tree on the property. Architecturally, the tile roof and palette of exterior colors are also similar to another important building on the Webb Campus, the W. Russell Fawcett Memorial Library. Utilizing these architectural details creates connections to the campus while paying homage to the local architecture and community of Claremont.
(Progress photo of the Duplex)
Please click on any of the photos for enlargements and details.