Colleen Healey Structure has renovated a 30-year-old dwelling in Maryland, introducing giant home windows and a hybrid facade that mixes Corten metal with cedar shake.
The Bethesda, Maryland dwelling is named Corten Tree Home and covers shut to five,000 sq. toes (464 sq. metres) on so much that borders a wooded conservation space with a pure spring that empties into the Potomac River.
In an effort to reconcile the “fully disconnected” format of the unique dwelling – the place giant partitions and the entrance yard and entrance had been hidden by a big freestanding storage – the structure studio related the back and front of the home to permit for added entertaining house.
“As a substitute of simply making a deeper footprint, we centered on reconfiguring the first-floor format and fenestration to raised join them to the entrance and rear out of doors areas,” studio founder Colleen Healey informed Dezeen, including that she wished to create a “spatial playfulness”.
“The result’s an environment friendly open important dwelling stage the place every room can see each back and front by the home.”
By making use of the cedar shakes from the unique dwelling, the Studio was capable of combine a standard, wood, North American aesthetic within the higher half of the facade, whereas the decrease half options the addition of Corten metallic panels.
“On the outside, cedar shakes, that are widespread for the area, had been a sustainable answer that helped create a textural distinction with the Corten metallic panels,” Healey informed Dezeen.
“Each supplies are economical and can proceed to combine extra into the environment with time.
Additions to the two-storey construction comprised round 1,000 sq. toes (92 sq. metres), whereas many of the remainder of the mission consisted of renovating current house.
The house steps down a steep hill, with the vast majority of the dwelling areas at grade.
As a result of nature of this secluded website, the studio was capable of create moments of inside publicity with parts just like the 15-foot (5 metre) pocketed-glass doorways, making a sheltered setting than a definitive separation of indoor and out of doors house.
Current ceiling grids had been used to put new home windows to “steadiness” the sunshine that enters at completely different components of the day in order that the house is pretty protected to the south however nonetheless lit all through the day.
The studio moved the first suite from the aspect of the house, off the kitchen – which is now a mudroom and workplace house – to the second story. A brand new storage was positioned off the dwelling areas on the bottom flooring.
Further bedrooms had been positioned beneath the bottom flooring, opening it up for open-concept dwelling areas. A deck and extra out of doors areas had been added across the perimeter of the construction.
Inside accents work along with the cedar and Corten Metal to create a pure materials palette that enhances the fluidity between areas.
Sloped home windows with skylights add additional mild to the house.
Blackened metallic railings, white oak finishes, uncovered metallic cabinets, stone accents and black metallic framed glass cupboards give the interiors a clear, industrial look.
White wood trusses run alongside the ceiling of the bottom flooring and assist overhead lights.
“The inside of the home could be very fashionable in its shapes, detailing and connection to the outside, whereas the outside is wrapped in a country industrial palette,” stated Healey.
Colleen Healey has created a variety of different tasks within the space that blend rustic and up to date finishes together with a renovation of a carriage home utilizing vibrant facades and the renovation of a historic Washington DC dwelling.
The images is by Jennifer Hughes.
