Order
To bind 48-year history are integrated functional and open contemporary spaces within a 1924 landmark overlooking the Rideau Canal.
Project Challenge
The starting point for the renovation was a modest Victorian house in very poor condition, with rooms with small windows and dark interior spaces were separated from each others, as was typical of houses built in the era where privacy was a cultural priority. In another gesture to the decor Victorian public, the arrangements of the existing interior spaces reinforce the ancient ideal of work and family life should be separate.
Although the client requested to renovate the space do the work in the house, while maintaining a clear separation from his family life was also important to create a bright modern spaces that seem small in size and remains spacious and visually connected.
Answer
Eco Project: noun, "a similar or identical response, as the sentiments expressed, a lingering trace or effect"
The fact that the house has had few changes since it was originally built, is both a virtue and a challenge that allows multiple design opportunities. The footprint of the house is small (approx. 65 m2). Then, it was not possible to create a loft on the first floor appears while open and give the necessary differentiation between workspaces and seating. The house was previewed as a vertical loft, an open volume using four-story from the foundation to the roof of the new intervention.
The main level and previous level of foundations is open from side to side through a step that highlights the views of the stone wall foundations of the original house . Therefore, the former head space of the Victorian house, once segregated into separate pieces, is now become open and spacious.
Small original windows are replaced by large windows on both the front and sides of the room, visually extending into the garden space front and rear, and finally, allowing to have spectacular views from the patio (all over the house) to the Rideau Canal.
space requirements include some very private spaces: a study may contain several thousand books, an office and a bedroom en suite. To achieve respond this paradoxical task of a loft-style house but with private spaces such as the old Victorian house, study, office and the vault of books are designed as distinctive volumes suspended within the large volume of 4 floors.
Since these volumes "float" within the shell of the original house, they gain the necessary visual privacy from the living on the street below and the outside (despite increasing the areas of windows). While these spaces are small, bright and airy and larger read by having visual access both the windows and to other interior spaces of the house.
most private areas of the house (such as closets, bathrooms and stairways) are located along the south wall of the house and are protected by a screen three floors. At the top level, the master bedroom on the front fly front and patio, as well as appearing distinctly as a floating volume and forming a roof above the entrance. In this sense, the attic space above the Victorian house is redesigned to provide light and views that never existed before in the original house, and due to raised position, maintaining privacy.
Date: 2007-2009
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Photo: Photolux Studios (Christian Lalonde)
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