Norway-based Saunders Structure has created a Y-shaped home clad in Corten metal with floor-to-ceiling glazing in a design-focused neighbourhood close to Calgary, Alberta.
The aptly named Y Home has a footprint of 190 sq. metres and was accomplished by design agency Saunders Structure in 2022.
The residence is positioned in a designed-focused neighborhood referred to as Carraig Ridge, a rural retreat close to the Rocky Mountains.
The one-storey home has three “spokes.” Residents enter by way of the northeastern spoke with a storage and coated porch right into a triangular lobby.
The general public areas are positioned on the central junction with a non-public suite and workplace on the finish of the northwestern spoke and the first suite on the finish of the southeastern spoke.
The residing areas function white partitions and light-coloured wooden ceilings and flooring. Black steel frames maintain the floor-to-ceiling home windows and a wood-burning range hangs from the ceiling in the lounge.
Within the kitchen, low-profile millwork blends into the white partitions and gray marble was used for the big island. Black home equipment and taps accent the area.
A big basement tucks companies, storage and assist areas underground.
“I feel the concepts on the Y Home are very clear and useful,” Saunders mentioned, likening the set as much as his residence in Bergen. “On the similar time, the plan is totally completely different as a result of it needed to match this website and setting.”
The roofline is twisted barely to kind three wedge-shaped porches with easy picket decks and soffits dealing with out to mountain and forest vistas.
Contrasted to the picket surfaces, the home is clad in a Corten metal shell.
“The protecting patina of rust on the floor of the constructing offers it an earthy, nearly natural high quality,” the staff mentioned.
Carraig Ridge is a long-term undertaking spearheaded by Ian MacGregor and his daughter Kate MacGregor, who leads XYC Design, the corporate that oversees neighborhood growth and stewards the design of eco-sensitive homes within the protected surroundings.
Within the foothills of Banff Nationwide Park, Carraig Ridge consists of 650 acres, divided into 550 acres of pure panorama for neighborhood use and 100 acres for the event of 40 properties, every designed by an award-winning architect.
“Every website has its view, topography and barely completely different environmental circumstances, so every of the household of homes that we designed wanted to have its personal kind, form and plan,” the Saunders Structure staff mentioned concerning the general design scheme of the neighbourhood.
“We by no means let kind be the driving power of our designs, however finally every home grew to become a letter, just like the Y Home, and we went with that idea.”
A number of the first homes embody designs by American studios Younger Initiatives, Olson Kundig, and Cutler Anderson Architects. Saunders Structure designed 5 home ideas, beginning with the Y Home.
Different latest tasks by Saunders embody a wood-clad residence raised on stilts over Lake Nordås in Bergen and a cross-shaped villa on the Norwegian island of Selbjørn.
The images is by Ema Peter.
Challenge credit:
Architect: Saunders Structure
Staff architects: Todd Saunders with Attila Béres, Pedro Léger Pereira, Pål Storsveen, Monika Jasikova, and Joe Kellner
Native design and development coordination: XYC Design
Lead builder: Priman Properties
Inside furnishings: Equipment Inside Objects
