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hot new next profile A rendering of an industrial loft-style home currently under construction on Mercer Island, Washington. The main living areas are designed around a central courtyard. Above the brick-clad garage, a rooftop deck offers additional outdoor living space. OPPOSITE: Architect Ryan Stephenson takes in the sights of Seattle’s Lake Union from his office. 84 graymag.com
RENDERING: COURTESY STEPHENSON DESIGN COLLECTIVE ; PORTRAIT: KEVIN SCOTT PROCEED AND BE BOLD Written by KAITY TEER A SPRAWLING MULTILEVEL TREEHOUSE—SPANNING NINE TREES TOTAL—WAS RYAN STEPHENSON’S FIRST BREAK-THE-RULES DESIGN PROJECT. He was 12 years old at the time. “I stole scrap wood and lumber from local construction sites, as much as I could carry,” he recalls, to support his obsession with building in the woods behind his Georgia home. When he wasn’t constructing, he was drawing, and that treehouse—raised with help from his brothers and friends— taught him the satisfaction of watching ideas become reality board by board, and it steered him into a life in architecture. First he tempered his childhood guerrilla building skills at Auburn University’s Rural Studio, a design-build architecture program that tasks students with constructing affordable homes and buildings in the Alabama countryside. “I trace everything I do today back to what I learned there,” says Stephenson, now 34 and the founder of Stephenson Design Collective (formerly Elemental Design), a burgeoning Seattle firm with 19 projects currently in the works, from a nine-unit townhouse development on Tacoma, Washington’s forthcoming light-rail corridor to a pair of minimalist passive houses in Seattle. The experience—working with a real client, a modest budget, and professors interrogating every design decision—was formative, and it taught him the virtues of resourcefulness and a client-first attitude. “I always say, ‘This is your home, not my portfolio,’” he notes. “Figuring out how to create something beautiful within clients’ budget—so they can still afford to fill » graymag.com 85
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