{"id":9059,"date":"2026-06-02T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=9059"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:16:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:16:56","slug":"out-of-line-adds-playful-adu-with-absent-gable-to-new-jersey-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/out-of-line-adds-playful-adu-with-absent-gable-to-new-jersey-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Line adds playful ADU with “absent gable” to New Jersey house"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brooklyn-based studio Out of Line has completed an attached accessory dwelling unit<\/a>\u00a0that extends<\/a> a New Jersey<\/a> suburban home by extending its colours and creating a gable form in the negative for the entryway. <\/span><\/p>\n

Known as Swoop ADU, the 750-square-foot (70-square-metre) dwelling adds two bedrooms and a bathroom to a 1988 split-level home in South Orange, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

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Out of Line has designed an ADU for the home in New Jersey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Out of Line<\/a>, which was founded by Danielle Kemble and Sevki Topcu in 2021, completed the ADU in 2025 to create a separate home for a homeowner who lives with her daughter’s family.<\/p>\n

The project allows the client to start a new chapter of her life, in proximity to her family, while maintaining privacy and independence in the neighbourhood’s\u00a0first ADU.<\/p>\n

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The ADU is connected to the main home by a terrace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The project sits on a cul-de-sac of near-identical houses constructed by a single developer, each with a gabled roof that defines the upper boundary of the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

The design reveals itself in a peek-a-boo moment as neighbours move along the rounded curb, breaking the uniformity of the context.<\/p>\n

“Swoop ADU engages this ubiquity by inversion \u2013 instead of adding another gabled mass, it subtracts one,” the studio explained.<\/p>\n

“The absence of the gable forms a carved-out negative space that establishes the entry.”<\/p>\n

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A pitched cut-out forms a shelter over the entrance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rather than mimicking the gable above, the team inverted the form for a diagonal butterfly roof that appears flat from the street but dips down when viewed from the side.<\/p>\n

A small upper terrace connects the ADU to the main house.<\/p>\n

The main home had been unchanged since it was built. However, to unify the existing house with the new portion, the team traded the original brick veneer on the lower half of the house for charcoal grey stucco and the upper vinyl siding with light grey fibre cement panels.<\/p>\n