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CANADIAN ARCHITECT 05/18
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On the exterior, the house is clad in naturally stained wood siding that wraps onto the underside of the roof overhang above. The overhang covers open patios and a screened porch, supported by a series of u-shaped Cor-Ten plate steel columns. These columns extend the rich texture and long shadows of the surrounding trees and serve to screen private rooms. Together, the dark palette of wood and steel ground this quiet residence into its surrounding landscape. Inside, high ceilings and an open plan define the main living space. The plan flows around a freestanding utility box which contains the kitchen pantry as well as a walk-in closet and bathroom. The wood-clad box grows upwards from the floor and helps define the spaces around it. A simple and muted palette emphasizes the interior volumes with a sequence of light wells and skylights that draw daylight from the main floor all the way down to the basement. The bedroom wing is separated from the living space by a white steel screen that extends the geometry and function of the exterior columns into and throughout the house.
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:: Jury :: At once radical and subtle, Parallelogram House experiments with the context of ordinary suburban architecture. Its diagonal facades front and back afford more expansive and yet more private view lines than the ubiquitous and non-private in-line siting of houses in residential neighbourhoods. Its use of steel fins provides a provocative alternative both in material and form to the predictable and banal materials that are more common to the programme. This is domestic architecture that challenges its paradigm, and yet with its single-story height and earthtoned façade, it maintains a low profile. CLIENT NOLAN PLOEGMAN | ARCHITECT TEAM SASA RADULOVIC, JOHANNA HURME, COLIN
The home’s vertical wood siding wraps onto the underside of an extensive roof overhang, which is supported by Cor-Ten columns that evoke the rich texture and shadows of the tree line.
ABOVE
CA May 18.indd 74
NEUFELD, APOLLINAIRE AU, PABLO BATISTA, KEN BORTON, JORDY CRADDOCK, AYNSLEE HURDAL, CAROLINE INGLIS, KELSEY MCMAHON, SHANNON WIEBE, SHARON ACKERMAN, MANDY ALDCORN, SARAH ALMAKI, BEN GREENWOOD, ANDRIY IVANYTSKYY, JEFF KACHKAN, TRENT THOMPSON | STRUCTURAL HANUSCHAK CONSULTANTS INC. | LANDSCAPE SCATLIFF + MILLER + MURRAY | CONTRACTOR CONCORD PROJECTS | AREA 2,700 FT 2 + GARAGE + FULL BASEMENT | BUDGET WITHHELD | COMPLETION AUGUST 2014
2018-05-08 9:53 AM
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