Layout Workshop a House Can Be Shaped by a Website

Good design is the result of powerful, easy concepts that give meaning to a home’s shape, form and materials. When you look to your site for inspiration, then these thoughts often appear very naturally. A site is composed of many things: topography, plants, trees, regional and local climate, surrounding structures, water bodies and zoning and code regulations. Each site has very specific solar orientations, views (good and bad) and often a very explicit character. Each of those areas is an opportunity to yield a meaningful conceptual strategy for your home design — a way to invent its shape, layout, form and materials.

The following examples apply one or more of these as starting points; every site is translated in different, however poetic, ways in the home.

Nick Noyes Architecture

In the edge of this sea, two easy, elegant construction components create a courtyard sheltered from the prevailing winds. The substance selections were created of the website’s textures, amber colour and shore.

The constructions will weather time, further strengthening their relations to this place. The building’s shape, place and materials all work to link it to the site.

Martin Patrick 3

Appearing chiseled from stone monoliths, these simple sculptural forms are elegantly tied to neighborhood materials: stone walls cut into the landscape, remembering an agricultural past.

The vertical reaches this stone chimneys mark important gathering places in the home, visible from all points on the site. Contrasting regions of airy, open windows and ample stone talk to ideas of shelter and thoughtfully control light and views.

Charles Rose Architects Inc..

Here three playful building volumes were arranged to shield the owners in the coastal waters and create outside courtyards for playing, gathering and viewing. The shed roof forms have been derived from the curved land forms, along with the central horizontal roof quantity makes perfect sense like a raised viewing platform.

A want to capture and exploit all aspects of the site educated this simple detached-structure concept. Moving between every structure refocuses the people on a variety of experiences, not one particular opinion.

Charles Rose Architects Inc..

In another view of the identical house, we see that the architect had thoughts about how people would interact with one another and the unique surroundings.

The various shapes and the decision to reconnect and separate happen to be reenforced. The framed views, passageways and wide range of vantage points are all ways to appreciate the site.

Robert M. Cain, Architect

The shotgun style of house was developed in the U.S. South in reaction to the local climate. These long, narrow dwellings are passively cooled by breezes. Using deep overhangs and an comprehension of the way the sun moves across the site, the builder positioned the extended axis of the shotguns to make the most of wind patterns. Separating the structures into person shotguns, the builder augmented that this cooling effect and generated additional pockets of shade between the constructions.

More about designing sunlight and shade

Robert M. Cain, Architect

The architect oriented the extended axis of this construction toward a stand of pine trees to make the most of warmer pools of atmosphere made by their own shade.

Robert M. Cain, Architect

Linear view corridors on the site are echoed in the construction forms along with the long views throughout the shotgun structures. See the household of shades and tones of the woods represented in the construction materials.

Robert M. Cain, Architect

The coloration of this siding and construction materials also draws from the site. The russet pine needles along with the grey bark correlate to the colors on the house’s siding and roof.

Feldman Architecture, Inc..

Topography informs the form and massing of this home. The meandering floor plan follows the present contour of the site and pays homage to the topography: The excavated soil was used because of its rammed-earth walls. Keeping all the spaces one elevation minimized the building’s mass and let it stretch out across the hillside, opening to light and views from all sides.

Feldman Architecture, Inc..

Meanwhile, the roof shape echoes the land form and accumulates rainwater for reuse as landscape irrigation.

Wagner Hodgson

This website’s agricultural history indicated that the construction idea. And while this contemporary barn doesn’t rely on the archetypal barn roof to signify “barn,” its substances, bold massing and proportions convey it. Cor-Ten steel remembers rusted farm implements, and dry-laid-stone walls recall the website’s agrarian past, when stones were piled at the borders of cultivated plots.

Wagner Hodgson

The barn goes across the landscape. Both construction and site are intentional, designed components that encourage a narrative about cutting into and living within a site. Changes in altitude have been artfully handled; Cor-Ten steel retaining was utilized around the trees to connect the landscape with an barn cladding. The duration of the construction references the tobacco barns of New England. Virtually an inversion of average barn siding, the tiled walls open the massive volume of the home to the site outside. These gestures talk into the idea of a barn without relying on mimicry.

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