Specht Architects has designed a symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires in Massachusetts that was created as a residence and a spot to showcase antiques.
The purchasers employed Texas-based Specht Architects to construct a 2,000-square-foot (186-square metre) minimalist home with floor-to-ceiling glass partitions that afforded views of the encompassing meadow and enormous old-growth bushes.
The 2-bedroom dwelling acts as an object within the panorama, hovering barely off the bottom with parallel white ground and roof plates that reach outwards from the glass field
“The strategy sequence – travelling via a forested space after which seeing the symmetrical home on-axis behind a big, open pasture – heightens a way of pilgrimage to the home,” the studio instructed Dezeen.
The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre) huge porch that wraps across the total home and shades the inside areas, lowering the house’s heating and cooling load.
Replanted pure grasses will create a dramatic floor aircraft when absolutely grown.
Between massive expanses of glass are structural wall segments clad in white and pure gray cementitious stucco, which additionally coats the soffit that conceals a considerable amount of structural metal needed for the massive cantilever. The terrace is pure concrete.
The plan balances a bed room suite on every finish with environment friendly, communal areas within the centre.
“The finishes embody enormous, seamless porcelain wall and ground surfaces, and absolutely hid storage, fixtures, and gadgets,” the crew stated.
“The distinction of this minimalism with the proprietor’s elaborate assortment is dramatic and provides to the otherworldly facet of the home.”
European oak cabinetry and smooth quartz adorn the kitchen, whereas lighting and fixtures are recessed to be almost invisible. The house additionally accommodates in-wall storage that holds extra collectables, permitting the homeowners to rotate their show objects at will.
The laundry room serves as a salon-style artwork gallery – one aspect of the room holds the utilitarian home equipment, whereas the opposite options ornately framed and lit work.
“We not often encounter an opportunity to design an ‘object’ home on a very open website with out neighbouring buildings or different constructed context that necessitates an architectural response,” the studio stated.
“Due to this, a symmetrical home is one thing we’ve by no means carried out; nonetheless, it was the right response to each the positioning and the proprietor’s minimal program.
“The shape and the strategy to it creates a heightened drama that’s excessive and considerably surprising.”
Based by Scott Specht in Austin, Texas, Specht Architects has tasks throughout the nation from a solid concrete dwelling in Dallas to a low-profile home that appears out to the Santa Fe mountains to a stacked seaside home in New Jersey.
The images is by Dror Baldinger.
Undertaking credit:
Inside design: By homeowners
Panorama structure: Wagner Hodgson
Builder: Greg Wellenkamp
Structural engineering: Barry Engineers
