|
|
JOHN BROWN is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Feel of a Boathouse
Side Elevation
|
Front Elevation
Exterior
Stairs
Living Room
Drawing
|
The design concept began with an
investigation of the relationship between
a light wooden frame and solid retaining
block walls, and an ideal of creating the
spirit of a boathouse, a place to retreat
to, almost a holiday house within the city.
The primary elements of construction,
frame and walls, sit on a concrete base,
while a folded plate roof, underlined
with plywood, tops the whole.
Block-work elements which began life as a
core (enclosing some functions or forming
a hearth) are separated, interacting with
the frame to divide the space; cupping
each end of a ’servant’ zone (on the
angle of the roof’s fold) and compressing
the middle of a ‘served’ zone.
Approached from the street above,
the house addresses the public edge
with an expressed colonnade and
glazed screen stretched between
block walls – inclined warmly and
welcomingly to the visitor.
Project Details:
Title: Clifford Forsyth House
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Floor Area: 250 m2
Completed: 1995
Contact: Patrick Clifford, Auckland
Email: patrick.clifford@architectus.co.nz
Awards:
NZIA - Resene National Award for
Architecture 1997
Levene/Home & Building House of the
Year Award 1995
|
|
|
|
We believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create CLOSE, SIMPLE, LIGHT places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
provides design focused information that homeowners can use to improve the quality of how and where they live. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home empowers you to take more control of your home and improve the quality of how you live while reducing your environmental impact and futureproofing the long term investment value of your home.
|
|
