Single family home design
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Project • By Patrick Tighe Architecture • Private Houses
Fire House
A new home was built to replace an existing burned-out residence on a severe hillside lot in the Riviera neighborhood of Santa Barbara. The building makes use of fire-resistant materials. Inspired by the mid-century Case Study homes of Southern California, the home is an expression of steel, concrete, and glass.
Patrick TIGHE Architecture
Patrick TIGHE Architecture
The home maintains the footprint of the eclipsed former residence as per Santa Barbara zoning requirements. Walls of glass are framed within the steel frame structure and offer optimal transparency. The house maintains both an inward focus (that offers access to the garden to the North) as well as majestic panoramic vistas extending over the Pacific. The modest ho... More
News • News • 14 Jul 2021
NORM House challenges generic notions of the suburban home
NORM by Alain Carle Architecte is a renovation and extension of an existing single-family residence that breaks with the generic notion of a suburban house, which is often built without real consideration toward its context. The house is located in the city of Baie-D’Urfe, on the southwestern end of the island of Montreal, Canada. Originally agricultural in nature, the town emerged as a more traditional suburb after the Second World War.
Félix Michaud
The main street layout of the neighbourhood is organized as an orthogonal grid, while secondary arteries follow the irregular topography of the area. The winding nature of the streets means that even with the existing dense and mature vegetation that charact... More