* Residential Architecture: Black White Residence by David Jameson Architect

Residential Architecture: Black White Residence by David Jameson Architect: “..The Black White Residence inhabits the masonry shell of an existing house.  Focusing the design concept around ruins and exploring the idea of aperture, the glass temples, black frames, and white stucco provide a stark contrast to the natural surroundings, all the while offering views to the landscape beyond.  The design program called for renovations on the first floor level and the addition of a second level with a significantly smaller footprint..Alluding to the Acropolis, four modern glass temples emerge from a white stucco plinth as volumes of light, and define space between each other. These volumes of light are stitched together by a circulation core sheathed in black that extends to cradle each space. The volumes are instruments of light, gathering natural light to the interior during the day and glowing in the landscape at night..The glass volumes of the upper level and windows incised into the main level stucco plinth are thought of as lenses to the landscape. Facing the street side of the site, long thin ‘census’ windows give focus to the measured cadence of tree trunks while editing views to passing vehicles. Above, the glass volumes provide panoramic views to the tree canopy and sky above. To the rear yard, one glass volume slices through the plinth to frame unencumbered two storey views..”  Interesting concept, form, interior volumes and details; extensive glazing, interesting fenestration including clerestory windows; abundant natural light and views for this renovation and extension of an existing home..

See our posts on two other homes by David Jameson Architect:

• Residential Architecture: The NaCl House by David Jameson Architect
• Residential Architecture: House on Hoopers Island by David Jameson Architect

designalog : contact

image: © Paul Warchol Photography; article: Minner , Kelly . “Black White Residence / David Jameson Architect” 04 Jan 2011. ArchDaily. <http://www.archdaily.com/101226&gt;

* Residential Architecture: Jigsaw Residence by David Jameson Architect

Residential Architecture: Jigsaw Residence by David Jameson Architect: “..Recycling a single story suburban house located on a busy corner site, the Jigsaw Residence introverts itself in a continuous spatial flow around an open air courtyard carved from the home’s remains. A matrix of spaces is linked by movement through them as storeys merge and spaces relate to each other as they rise and fall in a series of interlocked puzzle-like volumes giving a unique three dimensional framework to each space where plan and section respond to program simultaneously..Fundamental to the conception of the house is the notion of reflectivity, rendering unclear the boundaries between inside and outside. Light and space are modulated by meshing ribbons of wall and glass that form a tessellation of solid and void. The conditioning of these internal and external walls is identical. Planes of stucco exterior walls transform into plaster interior walls while passing through glass. Clerestory glazing and window constructs are carefully sited to afford privacy to the occupants while framing and extending views through the site..”  Interesting form, interior volumes, fenestration, details; extensive glazing, natural light..

See our posts on two other homes by David Jameson Architect:

• Residential Architecture: The NaCl House by David Jameson Architect
• Residential Architecture: House on Hoopers Island by David Jameson Architect

designalog : contact

image: © Paul Warchol Photography; article: Minner , Kelly . “Jigsaw Residence / David Jameson Architect” 10 Jan 2011. ArchDaily. <http://www.archdaily.com/102569&gt;

* Residential Architecture: TR Residence by Robert Siegel Architects

Residential Architecture: TR Residence by Robert Siegel Architects: “..Robert Siegel Architects was asked to design an addition to the client’s existing residence, originally designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes in 1974..The program included a new master bedroom suite, which raises the floor elevation higher than the rest of the house and captures additional views overlooking the Hudson River Valley..Studying the original design of the house led to the placement of a fifth organizational “bar” to the east side, near the quiet wooded side of the site..The addition extends further south than any other part of the existing house, providing optimal views and privacy, while maintaining the massing of
the house as one approaches from the north..Wood cladding and full-height sliding glass doors are used to seamlessly integrate the addition with the existing house..”  Extensive glazing, natural light and views for this extension to an existing home..

designalog : contact

image: Courtesy of Robert Siegel Architects; article: Gaete , Javier . “TR Residence / Robert Siegel Architects” 04 Sep 2012. ArchDaily. <http://www.archdaily.com/268358&gt;

* Residential Architecture: Shakin Stevens House by Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

Residential Architecture: Shakin Stevens House by Matt Gibson Architecture + Design: “..Matt Gibson Architecture + Design have designed the Shakin Stevens House in Melbourne, Australia..The conceptual drive for the interior of this house is largely in response to a brief which crystallised into a need to be connected with ‘green’ space. Beyond the heritage front the project wanted to not necessarily increase floor area but to increase amenity. To make spaces feel bigger, more functional, to be light filled, and to visually extend & borrow from within and beyond the site..‘Shakin Stevens’ is not only about a coloured front door but the experience of what’s beyond it. Conceptually beyond this green door, there are no doors; the newer space is about flow and continuity where delineation of space is soft and less finite than expected from the street.  In a clear formal idea the rear composes 3 extruded white cubes that look essentially like they have been let go, landing like dice randomly on top of each other next to a Victorian ‘monopoly’) house. The 3 cubes, as with the existing villa, are composed so as to be immediately deciphered internally or externally and in clear programmatic zones all house different functions. The cubes which are opened at their ends (or sides where required) are utilised as devices to orchestrate views to green elements within the structure and to greenery within or beyond the site..The client requested a predominantly white interior with a feature highlight colour. Green became an obvious choice, working in combination with the proximity of the garden. The green spaces within and beyond the site became the focus with the white cubes acting as lens for these events – effectively assisting in bringing the green inside and dissolving barriers of enclosure. In this way interior, exterior, landscape & old and new – through colour – all inform each other with equal importance..‘Shakin Stevens’ utilises many ESD principles – retention of existing structure, orientation and configuration of new works, sun protection (eaves), exposed thermal mass, passive temperature regulation, low embodied energy construction techniques & materials, structural depth within walls for mass bulk insulation with R values, insulation of entire  existing dwelling (floor, walls, ceiling), use of recycled timber flooring/decking. A grey water system, 2 side water storage tanks, fake grass & ‘succulent’ planting temper water usage whilst providing intrinsic features of the colour scheme. Beyond these this project is about providing a future robustness, better utilisation of amenity and a more fuller embracing of its urban condition. They have borrowed what was previously laying dormant within and beyond their walls. This new layout provides for a sustainable model of space/s that can sustain user types (a couple, 2 couples, a family with teenagers, guests) through separation of sleeping zones about a flexible living zone that they can upsize (externally).  This project embraces it’s ‘green-ness’. Colour was a vital strategy in adding glow and clarity to this expression on a number of levels..”  Dramatic contemporary renovation and extension of an existing victorian home; extensive glazing, natural light, interior / exterior views; distinctive form; indoor / outdoor and green sensibility..

image + article: Contemporist

designalog : contact