Chaewon Kim and Beat Schenk are ascending architects. Founders of the design/build company UNI, their work has attracted scores of writers, admirers and detractors, each of whom is motivated by a desire to explain just what it is that Kim and Schenk are up to.

The couple lives and works in Cambridge, MA, where their renovated home is the Boston Globe’s Home of the Week.  In 2002, after they purchased the small cottage, the architects stripped down the walls, the plumbing, the shingles–everything. They wanted to renovate and design the house using affordable, do-it-yourself products. The result is a natural and unnatural hybrid, tucked within a plot of land that otherwise knows only of Colonial and Cape-cottage styles houses. Still, the home captures New England’s antiquity while celebrating a modernistic approach to 21st century architecture.

Corrugated Steel envelops the A-Frame cottage.

A wide, spacious kitchen with a slate backdrop.

Polycarbonate walls and incoming translucent light are features in an upstairs bedroom.

A combination of new and old, this project exemplifies the best of Boston’s modern homes.

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