Gentle-toned cedar and brick clad the outside of a Canadian residence by structure agency StudioAC that’s tucked right into a hill overlooking a meadow and a lake.
Constructed for a personal shopper, the vacation residence was designed to embrace its serene setting.
The dwelling is positioned locally of Cherry Valley inside Prince Edward County, an space recognized for its forested patches, grassy dunes and wineries. It lies alongside Lake Ontario, about 200 kilometres east of Toronto.
“Characterised by an intricate shoreline and a burgeoning wine-making trade, the panorama and sense of place will be distilled to fields and shoreline,” stated Toronto-based StudioAC.
Horizontally oriented and rectangular in plan, the 232-square-metre residence was designed to have interaction each the fields and the shore. Its kind and materiality have been influenced by the area’s agrarian structure.
The only-level residence sits subsequent to a storage/workshop constructing and is gently sunken right into a pure ridge, providing safety from the wind. The entrance elevation seems towards a meadow, whereas within the rear, the property descends towards the lakeshore.
“Massive home windows on the water aspect body views of the shore, whereas panoramic home windows at floor degree going through the meadow supply a vantage level to the ‘subject,'” the group stated.
“This panoramic view immerses the viewer within the panorama reasonably than putting them on prime of it.”
The outside options a mixture of light-toned brick and cedar, which “have a good time the duality of the positioning”.
Furthermore, the wooden shingles have interaction the house in dialogue with the encompassing timber, the group stated.
The gabled roof is punctuated with a number of dormers.
Three have stable sides wrapped in fibre-cement panels and are topped with a skylight, offering a situation “harking back to mild beaming by the tree cover”.
One dormer conceals mechanical vents. One other, bigger dormer is discovered on the entrance elevation and contains a band of home windows.
The dwelling is entered on the north through extensive exterior stairs that step downward. Inside, one finds a transparent and fluid format.
The central portion encompasses the communal space. A eating nook adjoins a kitchen and front room, the place a big sectional couch helps divide up the house. The general public space connects to an outside terrace.
The social zone is flanked by non-public areas. One aspect of the home holds a main bed room suite, whereas the opposite accommodates three bedrooms, loos, a laundry room and mechanical house.
The inside contains a restrained palette of colors and supplies.
Impartial, earthy tones create a serene environment, and Douglas fir and brick “have interaction in a dialogue with the outside tectonics”. The flooring is concrete with radiant heating.
Based in 2015 by Jennifer Kudlats and Andrew Hill, StudioAC has accomplished quite a few initiatives round Canada.
Amongst them are a barn-like residence on Bruce Peninsula that’s clad in corrugated steel and a luxurious hashish dispensary in Toronto completed with zig-zagging industrial grates.
The pictures is by Felix Michaud.
Venture credit:
Architect: StudioAC; Matei Rau, Mo Soroor, Jennifer Kudlats, Andrew Hill
Builder: Whitaker Development
