The Techbuilt House

With Foundation Work, Progress Happens Quickly After more than a year of planning, we were certainly eager to get going with our renovation and addition project. But we weren’t quite prepared for the swift progress that the first few weeks of construction brought. With the unusually warm late autumn and early winter weather this year, […]

Rock Collecting As the excavation work for our addition was beginning (and how dramatic it was) I noticed a bunch of large rocks being dug up. I figured that these would be terrific materials to build a stone wall, so I asked the crew to please save the stones. At some point near the end

Demolishing the Shed One of the major challenges with TechBuilt homes is they have no basement and no attic. Combined with the small closets customary in the 1950s, there is way too little storage for a modern family!  Many TechBuilt homeowners build sheds for storage. When we researched our shed we learned that it was

Tree Work We regret having to take some trees where the addition to our home will be located. When we consulted with John Marquis of Marquis Tree Service we made it clear that we wanted to save any tree that was not absolutely required to be taken. Once the project is complete, we will plant

Our Design and Construction Team We’re working with an incredible team! The renovation and addition design is led by Joe Welch at C/W Design Group and Dylan James at Patriot Custom Homes is leading the construction. C/W Design Group: We wanted an architect who would be sensitive to the historic nature of our Techbuilt home

The Techbuilt House Techbuilt was a company founded Carl Koch in the early 1950s. After receiving his architectural training at Harvard, Koch taught architecture at MIT. First introduced in 1953, the Techbuilt house was a low-cost, semi-factory-built modern style house, which used modular construction. The Techbuilt house was based on a consistent four-foot wide module

Midcentury Modern House Renovation and Addition This site chronicles a major update to our 1958 Techbuilt House located in Lexington, MA. We are completely upgrading all the existing parts of the home by adding new floors, windows, and systems. The kitchen and existing bathrooms will be completely re-done. In “approved Techbuilt style” we are eliminating