The architectural practice Splyce Design based in Vancouver designed a single -family house that was choreographed by a colonnade entrance in Victoria, Canada.
The house as Shoreline House is an meticulous expansion and restoration that creates a balance between modern style and environmental awareness.
The property is characterized by rocky information, large fir and oaks and an extensive 180-degree view of the admission. It is at the end of a Vorstadtstraße in which single -family houses of a rocky coast give way.
New building versus renovation
After buying the house of the 1960s, customers came to Splyce with a plan for a new apartment.
The studio suggested keeping and rebuilding the current building and at the same time building a small, one -story addition, since the proximity of the location to the water and its sensitive ecology of the location. This option had the slightest ecological effects.
Environmental considerations
The addition that contains the main bedroom and the main bath has a strangely shaped building envelope due to strict coastal setbacks.
In order to prevent overexcavification in the maritime protected region, the design of the new band has sunk concrete foundation walls and a minimum dance reprint. The building seems to float with its upper incline of 13 feet above a frankly screen wall that reaches a dramatic point.
Choreographed approach
A staircase lined with colonnades that leads to the front entrance coordinates the approach to the house. The scales of the original house, in which the dark surfaces reflect the granite coast, contrasts with the light -colored wooden cladding of the addition.
The design examines the places where the old and the new, the wilderness and cultivations, the interior and the outside converge.
Landscape affairs
Terraces and sidewalks mix perfectly into the natural topography and vegetation in the area.
Large windows that capture changing light and water reflections, some with hidden frames to blur the border between inside and outside, and others strategically positioned to frame certain views, give the interiors all day long.
The ability of the SPLYCE design to create modern architecture, which is able to be sensitive to environmental context and the interaction between the building and the landscape, is demonstrated by the coastal house.
Floor plan
Splyce Design, a contemporary design studio, which was founded in 2001 by Nigel Parish, specializes in projects that range from custom furniture and landscapes to new residential buildings and restorations.
The studio is small, practical and works directly with customers to design intelligent, elegant and long -lasting living rooms.
Project facts
Project name: Coastal house
Location: Victoria, British Columbia
Completion: 2024
Size: 3000SF
Designed team: Community Nigel, Tomas Machnikowski, Galo Oyarce
Builder: MDRN built
Structural engineer: Aspect building engineers
Landscape: Andrew van Egmond
All pictures © EMA Peter.
All drawings © Splyce Design.
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