Native structure studio Liveable Kind created the timber-clad Victory Bay Home to reduce disturbance to the oak timber and face up to the storms and floods that may hit its location alongside the Atlantic seaboard.
The house is situated on Kiawah Island, a barrier island close to Charleston, and is tucked away in a forest of mature oaks. Adjoining to the property is a neighborhood park.
Web site circumstances prompted the design by Liveable Kind structure studio, which has an workplace close by on Johns Island.
It was designed for a retired couple who needed a retreat-like residence the place they may spend time with their grown-up kids and grandchildren.
“The design idea shortly turned about sitting beneath the safety of shady oaks and connecting to the encompassing neighborhood park,” the studio mentioned.
Liveable Kind additionally took its cues from vernacular buildings discovered within the Lowcountry, the geographic and cultural area alongside the South Carolina coast. Though they embody a range of architectural kinds, Lowcountry properties usually have giant porches and solar shading options similar to shutters and deep eaves.
Liveable Kind designed a three-story home totaling 2,888 sq. ft (268 sq. meters). The home's vertical orientation and L-shaped footprint decreased disturbance to the oaks.
The outside partitions are clad in modified wooden from the Kebony firm in Oslo. The siding is Monterey pine handled with a bio-based liquid to “give it the properties of hardwood.”
“Left to the weather, the wooden will develop a silvery sheen, additional mixing the home with its pure setting,” mentioned the structure studio.
The primary stage of the home is raised above floor, a authorities requirement as a result of space's potential for flooding.
In flip, at floor stage there are unconditioned areas – a storage and a storage space for bicycles and seaside tools, an out of doors bathe and a eating terrace.
At floor stage there’s a central air flow path which is situated on the lowest level of the property and serves as a drainage path. Furthermore, it provides direct entry to the storage areas whenever you strategy the seaside home.
On the primary flooring is the general public space, which consists of a lounge, kitchen, eating space and out of doors dwelling space. A visitor bed room can be discovered on this stage.
On the highest flooring, one facet homes the master suite and the opposite incorporates an area designed as a non-public condominium, with two bedrooms, a flex room and a “treetop shed”.
The home has two stairs and an elevator. One of many staircases is enclosed in a tall, gabled quantity lined with picket slats and visual alongside the entrance facade.
Whereas a lot of the home has a concrete and wooden construction, the stairwell quantity has a metal body as a result of “excessive wind circumstances that may happen in a hurricane,” the staff mentioned.
The staff famous that the format is configured to offer privateness and autonomy. The shoppers needed a house that will “by no means really feel too small, however on the identical time not too large, with simply two folks more often than not.”
Different South Carolina properties embrace a Charleston residence by Workstead, which has brick partitions splashed with plaster and paint, and a residence by architect Marica McKeel that blends modern and conventional kinds to fulfill a husband and spouse's conflicting tastes.
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