Canadian structure studio D’Arcy Jones Architects has accomplished a challenge referred to as John Avenue Redo, which concerned renovating and enlarging an early 1900s residence in a method that’s “forward-looking with out erasing an previous constructing’s authentic appeal”.
Positioned in East Vancouver, the challenge was designed for a younger couple who had a child upon the house’s completion.
Inbuilt 1910, the residence is situated on a sloped property. Whereas many homes within the space again as much as laneways, this house is sandwiched between two streets.
Along with a full renovation of their 1,600-square-foot (149-square-metre) home, the house owners desired a storage and utility house.
Given the property’s important slope, restricted house and zoning restrictions, finding the storage below the home was the most suitable choice – a call that required the unique home be lifted up throughout development.
“The redo concerned jacking up the unique home, fixing the foundations, and plunking the straightforward, two-storey gabled field again down on high of a brand new storage,” mentioned native studio D’Arcy Jones Architects.
Whereas the house’s entrance door is on the west, the storage is situated on the bottom of the home and faces east.
The storage is accessed by way of a sunken driveway, in an area that previously was an overgrown yard that was largely unusable because of its slope. The storage’s exterior is supposed to mix with the remainder of the home.
“This new, underground utility house is masked behind window-like detailing added to a generic overhead door,” the workforce mentioned.
Along with the brand new storage, the workforce revamped the outside siding, utilizing budget-friendly fibreglass-cement lap siding, which was painted charcoal gray. The workforce additionally added new home windows which can be all the identical width and changed roof shingles.
Throughout the residence, finishes have been changed and the format was absolutely reconfigured.
The bottom stage holds an open-plan kitchen, eating space and lounge. Above a hearth, the workforce integrated a painted metal panel that continues onto the ceiling.
Upstairs, one finds a main bed room, a walk-in closet with an workplace house, and two further bedrooms, one in all which doubles as a den.
The inside has a uncooked high quality because of structural framing and plywood shear partitions being left uncovered.
The flooring is a mixture of concrete and Douglas fir, the identical plywood was used to construct the staircase.
The kitchen options plywood, lacquer and marble. Home equipment have been built-in with millwork fronts, besides a stainless-steel vary.
General, the John Avenue Redo challenge is supposed to show how a renovation can have a contemporary spirit whereas nonetheless preserving a constructing’s historic character.
“[We] soften the distinction between previous and new on many tasks,” the workforce mentioned.
“This model exhibits how a quiet residential reinterpretation could be forward-looking with out erasing an previous constructing’s authentic appeal and silhouette.”
Based in 1999, D’Arcy Jones Architects has accomplished a variety of tasks in Vancouver and past.
Others embody a brutalist-style growth in Victoria that consists of staggered rowhouses clad in textured stucco and a clifftop residence in Vancouver that’s meant to be “half look-out tower, half courtyard and half landform”.
The pictures is by Ema Peter.
