Roosevelt Lakehouse This new lake home preserves the core of a nearly 100-year-old family cabin on Minnesota’s Roosevelt Lake, creating generational continuity while addressing new needs and goals. The initial request was for remodeling and energy improvements to the...
Open Back What do you do when your house doesn’t play well with your beloved backyard? You redesign how the two interact inside and out. This home expansion was designed to cleanly connect a St. Paul home to its backyard, where the clients and their young kids like to...
Lantern Studio Built using recyclable materials and sided with locally forested lumber, this garage and studio in Minneapolis is designed to reduce electricity use by maximizing natural light. The structure supporting the metal roof is sheathed with translucent...
Solar Studio This two-story garage and workshop in St. Paul blends old and new elements to create a highly functional workspace powered entirely off the grid. Instead of a straight teardown, we preserved the structure of the existing garage while adding a 14/12 pitch...
Rose House Conventional wisdom says that a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient house isn’t cost-effective to create. Challenging this misconception is the Rose House: an Energy-Star-compliant modern home built on a strict budget. ALM Design Studio, in cooperation with...
