Designed by the Canadian architects, Christopher Simmonds, the Zen Barn is a modern house in Ottawa, Canada. The volumetric house, spreading over 3,100 square meters, features white oak external cladding and floor-to-ceiling windows, making a warm and transparent home environment. Quite spacious, it accommodates four bedrooms and 4 bathrooms and naturally, a social interaction area, containing a neat, uncluttered front room and an impeccable kitchen. A staircase of commercial inspiration, with metallic and wooden finishings, allows vertical circulation. The neutral interior (we observe the presence of various shades of brown, beige, white and gray) is “interrupted” by splashes of red. Looking for harmony, the architects tried to bring the exterior, in the house.
The interior boasts a wierd combination of glossy and unpolished, an inspired mix, where rough wood meets super shiny surfaces. ”Heated exposed concrete floors ensure comfort inside the presence of huge glazed areas. Cabinetry in matte white lacquer and stained ash veneer flow throughout the interconnected kitchen, living and dining spaces.”
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Modern and Warm Home With External Cladding by Stephenson ISA Studio
Beautiful and galvanizing, the project called House 1005, designed by Stephenson ISA Studio in Worsley, Manchester, UK is now a wonderful modern and coquette home, with a less regular rooftop. “The brief is for a family house providing flexible accommodation generally recognised as being appropriate and of top of the range design and execution.” Before the renewal, the home looked quite dull and had no particularities. The setting though, was exceptional, quiet, welcoming and exquisite. After the “intervention”, the home started to exhale life and luminosity.The newer version of House 1005 is characterised by breeziness. The transparent living environment is a brave mixture of glass, wood and inventive decorations. “The alterations and additions reply to context and recognise the price of the prevailing and its surroundings, making architecture that is of its time in place of being a pastiche or imitation of what’s already there.” When it involves the execution, we need to say – it’s flawless. The external cladding adds a slightly of heat, inviting you contained in the house. Once inside, you get to peer the dynamic interior: the doors were eliminated with a view to create a more fluid space, the staircase dominates the core of the home allowing vertical circulation within the house, the kitchen is attached to the courtyard and the various irregularly shaped roof windows allow the sun to sneak inside.