Found in the hilly ski nation of Whistler, BC, Canada, Hadaway House is placed on a northwest incline forgetting a scenic panorama of Whistler valley. The facade of the house provides an unique faceted account that transpired by the regional limitations on a residence's footprint and even height, along with the requirement for the home of shed snow from the roof into defined storage areas on the website.
Hadaway House design presents a special exterior, nearly spaceship like in visual. The building code for an impact dimension was fulfilled by folding the house's profile into a narrow base. The entire house is outfitted with open spaced 2.6 ipe boards, installed on angles to overemphasize the angles of the home.
Adding to the angles of the residence are the purposely unsquare voids, home windows and also angled steel assistance posts.
Stairways preceeding the back door, which from a range appears like a hatch in a ship - possibly a space shuttle? These staircases attach the reduced degree to an exterior patio listed below your house. It is the only level ground on the high website aside from that at the major entrance.
An reverse pitch to the roof covering acts as a channel to route the snow fall away from the exterior pathways.
An upright gap of area runs under the greatest roofing ridge, bisecting the faceted volume to bring light into the undersurface of the residence.
A large boulder on the website is striated in a similar way to the ipe board cladding on Hadaway House.
The main entryway lies on the high side of the site, away from where the roofing snow is channelled.
The site is wedge formed with the narrowest side facing the street, developing simply enough room for a garage and the narrow entrance.
The entrance hall causes the eating area with the kitchen on one side as well as a submerged living room on the other, and also the living room opens up to an outside terrace neglecting Whistler valley.
The terrace consists of the unusual style of round steel blog posts mounted on angles to support the weight of a snow covered roof overhang.
Throughout the summertime, the roofing system overhang gives the essential color from the warmth of the sunlight.
The architecture, when minimized to areas of complexity, presents itself like an abstract sculptural installation - done in rhythmic balance and all in harmony.
Even on the balcony gaps in the strong framework where developed to permit sunlight to go through during the winter season.
Complimenting the angles of the balcony is a big quadrilateral coffee table.
Behind the living-room and merely off the entrance hall, a stairwell brings about the master collection and even to a connected sidewalk that continues on to the home office.
Even the entrance to the master collection is faceted.
The master suite appreciates its very own uncommonly shaped home windows and even walls. It likewise has a short trip of 3 staircases that results in a large ensuite.
Outside the master suite, the linked pathway leads down a hall to the home office.
The bridged walkway forgets the living room on one side and also the entry method on the various other.
The office flaunts a work table that runs the length of the home window wall and even has actually inset shelving above the home windows.
There are additionally 2 guest bed rooms on the lower level as well as a second living location and a large solution area.
The main degree strategy.
Construction of Hadaway House is a combo of concrete on the reduced floor and even composite steel as well as heavy hardwood framing on the top degrees. The thermal mass of the lower concrete dampens the temperature swings inside throughout the summer and winter season, and even in the summertime the inside is more cooled down as well as ventilated by attracting air from the most affordable level on the north side, before venting it via the roof's central break.
