US studio Robert Gurney Architect has accomplished a beachfront home in Delaware consisting of “easy and pure kinds” wrapped in white cedar, salvaged barn wooden and fibre-cement panels.
Named after the group the place it’s positioned, the Cotton Patch Hills Home sits on an oceanfront website in Bethany Seashore, Delaware.
Robert Gurney Architect, a studio primarily based in Washington DC, took cues from the native vernacular to conceive a vacation house for an empty-nester couple.
For a sandy website that faces the water, the staff created a rectilinear, three-storey constructing that totals 5,842 sq. ft (542 sq. metres). The home acts as “a contemporary retreat” with an emphasis on views and indoor-outdoor residing.
The constructing is split into a number of gabled-roof volumes, with a glazed connector on the centre.
“The easy and pure kinds are designed to reply to this system and website,” the staff mentioned.
Alongside the road elevation, the staff added a flat-roofed quantity topped with an aluminium trellis. A rooftop terrace on this quantity serves as “a stage to view the solar setting on the western bay”.
Facades are clad in white cedar shingles which are anticipated to climate over time, together with salvaged wooden from a Delaware barn. The amount with the trellis is wrapped in dark-toned fibre-cement panels.
“These supplies are supposed to be sturdy and sustainable,” the staff mentioned of the outside cladding.
Inside, there’s a mixture of private and non-private areas unfold throughout the three ranges.
The bottom stage incorporates a storage, space for storing, health club, toilet and small kitchen. On the primary flooring, one finds the principle communal zone, a media house and a bed room suite.
The highest stage holds a number of further bedrooms and a laundry room.
The inside options earthy finishes similar to white oak flooring and salvaged-wood wall panels. The staircase is fabricated from white oak and metal.
Within the kitchen, there’s white oak cabinetry and quartz counter tops. A central hearth has a encompass fabricated from hot-rolled metal.
Ample glazing helps immerse the occupants within the coastal panorama.
“Giant expanses of glass erase the boundary between inside and exterior, whereas curating moments of sunshine and shadow on the white wall planes,” the staff mentioned.
Different initiatives by Robert Gurney embrace a suburban home close to the US capital that was designed for a younger skilled who needed a low-upkeep house that might accommodate extra occupants sooner or later, and a household house in Maryland that consists of overlapping volumes clad in stone, wooden, fibre cement and glass.
The pictures is by Jennifer Hughes.
Undertaking credit:
Architect: Robert Gurney Architect
Structure staff: Robert M Gurney, Claire Andreas (challenge architect)
Structural engineer: Matteo Cobb Collective
Inside design: Jodi Macklin Inside Design
Panorama architect: Travis Wierengo, Topio Panorama Structure
