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Matt Fajkus ArchitectureThe site descends from the street and is privileged with dynamic natural views toward a creek below and beyond. To incorporate the existing landscape into the daily life of the residents, the house steps down to the natural topography. A continuous and jogging retaining wall from outside to inside embeds the structure below natural grade at the front with flush transitions at its rear facade. All indoor spaces open up to a central courtyard which terraces down to the tree canopy, creating a readily visible and occupiable transitional space between man-made and nature.
The courtyard scheme is simplified by two wings representing common and private zones - connected by a glass dining “bridge." This transparent volume also visually connects the front yard to the courtyard, clearing for the prospect view, while maintaining a subdued street presence. The staircase acts as a vertical “knuckle,” mediating shifting wing angles while contrasting the predominant horizontality of the house.
Crips materiality and detailing, deep roof overhangs, and the one-and-half story wall at the rear further enhance the connection between outdoors and indoors, providing nuanced natural lighting throughout and a meaningful framed procession through the property.
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100% DesignFineline Aluminium is part of the Customade Group and is a specialist glazing company who design, manufacture and install sophisticated bespoke glazing solutions. We specialise in aluminium framed sliding and folding doors with thin sight lines plus associated glazing products, for the high end residential and commercial markets.
The Artisans Group, Inc.This prefabricated 1,800 square foot Certified Passive House is designed and built by The Artisans Group, located in the rugged central highlands of Shaw Island, in the San Juan Islands. It is the first Certified Passive House in the San Juans, and the fourth in Washington State. The home was built for $330 per square foot, while construction costs for residential projects in the San Juan market often exceed $600 per square foot. Passive House measures did not increase this projects’ cost of construction.
The clients are retired teachers, and desired a low-maintenance, cost-effective, energy-efficient house in which they could age in place; a restful shelter from clutter, stress and over-stimulation. The circular floor plan centers on the prefabricated pod. Radiating from the pod, cabinetry and a minimum of walls defines functions, with a series of sliding and concealable doors providing flexible privacy to the peripheral spaces. The interior palette consists of wind fallen light maple floors, locally made FSC certified cabinets, stainless steel hardware and neutral tiles in black, gray and white. The exterior materials are painted concrete fiberboard lap siding, Ipe wood slats and galvanized metal. The home sits in stunning contrast to its natural environment with no formal landscaping.
Photo Credit: Art Gray
Tomecek Studio ArchitecturePhotography by John Gibbons
Project by Studio H:T principal in charge Brad Tomecek (now with Tomecek Studio Architecture). This contemporary custom home forms itself based on specific view vectors to Long's Peak and the mountains of the front range combined with the influence of a morning and evening court to facilitate exterior living. Roof forms undulate to allow clerestory light into the space, while providing intimate scale for the exterior areas. A long stone wall provides a reference datum that links public and private and inside and outside into a cohesive whole.
Jeff King & CompanyThis high durability exterior requires no painting or maintenance over time due to the natural cedar shingles, untreated machiche wood decking, blue stone patio, aluminum clad windows, copper gutters and galvanized railings.
Photography: Brian Mahany
Collaborative DesignworksThe project is a single-family home designed to amplify the awareness of nature through the manipulation of key viewpoints.
Photo credit: Ben Hill
Kathleen Donohue, Neil Kelly Co.This family cabin, built in the mid '60's has provided a much loved family retreat for generations. A beautiful wooded setting with breath-taking mountain views combined with the good bones of the cabin warranted a complete make-over to update it for now and for generations to come. Two small additions enlarge living space and tuck under existing deep roof overhangs. Chandler Photography
Robert M. Cain, ArchitectThis 2,010-square-foot house is an elegantly simple structure that combines familiar rural materials and 200-year-old architectural precedents. The house is distinctive in that it acknowledges the plain style southern vernacular farmhouse roots of the older and more utilitarian structures in the area and interprets them in a very modern way. It’s a marriage of two southern vernacular architectural styles: the shotgun and the dogtrot house.
Photo: Rob Karosis
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