Montreal structure studio Nós has accomplished a multi-generational dwelling in Vermont’s Inexperienced Mountains named Three Summits, which is made up of three pitched-roof constructions related by one-storey walkways.
Nós designed the house to offer communal areas that body views of the encircling mountain vary and convey collectively three generations of members of the family.
“By the repetition of straightforward varieties freely positioned on the positioning, the venture generates a variety of residing areas supporting the wants of communal life, whereas providing totally different relations with the panorama,” mentioned Nós.
“Stripped of ornamentation, the strains, planes and volumes compose a pure, and even primitive geometric complete.”
Granite stone partitions assist the pitched roofs, which function gable ends clad with sheet steel.
The tall, angular rooflines had been designed to imitate the encircling mountains.
“Constituting the one opaque surfaces on the primary flooring, the stone monoliths accommodate the technical areas and type the bottom of the three triangular prisms,” mentioned Nós.
“These excessive angular roofs stage the Inexperienced Mountains, totally assuming its iconographic reference to winter sports activities and Nordicity.”
Outside courtyards encompass the walkways that join the three cabin constructions, which in response to Nós symbolize three phases of life.
“Synthetic and pure gardens are combined alongside topographic parcours, linking the three essential pavilions and evoking the three phases of life,” the studio continued.
“By providing a variety of areas and atmospheres, the multi-generational residence turns into conducive to totally different phases of human existence inside a perpetual generational cycle.”
The Three Summits house is located on the highest level of the positioning, permitting for unobstructed views of the mountainous panorama.
The connecting walkways, entrances to the home and undersides of overhanging roofs had been clad in timber.
The principle entrance connects two cabin constructions.
On one facet is the cabin containing the house’s master bedroom and indoor automotive storage, whereas the opposite cabin has a lowered flooring stage aligning with the slope of the mountain and accommodates communal areas.
Main from the shared residing space is the third cabin, which has three ranges containing further bedrooms.
Different properties designed for multi-generational households embody a V-shaped timber home in a countryside village within the Czech Republic and two flats in a Mumbai high-rise that had been mixed into one dwelling.
The pictures is by Eric Petschek.
