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Altius Architecture have designed the Eels Lake residence in Apsley, Ontario, Canada.

Full description after the photos….

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Description of the Eels Lake Residence by Altius Architecture:

This project continues the Southern Ontario tradition of cottaging, while pushing the typology beyond one of occasional use into a year round dwelling. The home immerses itself in the surroundings, drawing from the beauty of the entire site, in addition to the powerful focus of the lake. Clean, modern spaces, rich in material and texture, in concert with a solid sustainable foundation results in enduring architecture.

The side-split massing integrates naturally into the site conforming to a subtle shift in the underlying Canadian Shield and minimizing the overall presence of the building on the site. The efficient steel and engineered wood structure allows a delicate glazed skin to wrap the main volume, emphasized by a simple roof plane that connects the main program elements. Taking full advantage of the granite mass upon which the building rests, the simple roof plane floats over a glass pavilion that is anchored to the site by an insulated concrete formwork [ICF] foundation. Clad in brick, the ICF base emphasizes the solidity of the site and provides the solidity for the light structure above, while creating a tightly sealed envelope for the lower bedrooms.

Through the use of a consistent palette of materials, wall and ceiling cladding link the interior with exterior. The varied textures of the simple volumes and planes provide a subtle but distinct reading of space. The architects worked closely with on-site trades to fuse new technology with traditional craftsmanshipa relationship that is all too infrequent in current practice. An efficient structure of steel and engineered wood is also achieved through strong collaboration with the structural engineer. Since the structure is separated from the envelope, a delicate glazed skin is able to wrap the main volume while the slender columns emphasize the simple roof plane that connects the main program elements. Completed within a reasonable construction budget, the project demonstrates the value of an integrated approach to building.

Though the building features extensive glazing, the building was carefully oriented with extensive roof overhangs and high efficiency windows. In the winter, the south-shading deciduous trees drop their leaves and solar penetration exploits the thermal storage capacity of the concrete floors. Thick evergreens retained along the north and east elevations of the building fend off cold winter winds. Other features that passively reduce the environmental impacts of the project are a high-albedo flat roof membrane, low-flow toilet fixtures, native vegetation, natural cross-ventilation, and local materials. A lake-loop geothermal system supplies heating for the home, distributed through radiant concrete floors. In summer, the system is reversed to provide cooling if necessary. Energy modeling of the geothermal system demonstrates a 5-year life-cycle payback period over a propane fired boiler. These integrated strategies ensure occupant comfort at a reduced environmental cost.

This projects triumph is in proving that green technology is viable for mainstream construction. Ultimately the economics of sustainability make sense and the suite of green strategies this project incorporates appealed to a client with no green agenda at the outset.

Visit the Altius Architecture website – here.

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This lovely house shows how you can decorate the area around it in order to connect the living space with outdoors. Cleverly planned flowerbeds and walkways creates great transition between the nature and the interior. Natural materials like stone and wood serve the same purpose and look amazing with plaster walls. Using these materials in the interior makes it more comfy and livable. The first level includes the living area and service rooms. The second floor is a private part of the house with three bedrooms. There is also a garage near the house which is done in the same style. Even though the house is designed not by Frank Lloyd Wright, his works definitely had inspired its architect. It’s always awesome when the house’s design is blended with surroundings so well. { Igor Shipovich }

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During Milan Design Week 2010, the Corian design store featured the “Smart-ologic Corian Living” exhibition that was designed by Karim Rashid.

The exhibition featured soft organic shapes realised through a morphic material to create a sensual living environment, a space that echoes the digital techno-organic world we live in, evoking an alternative way of experiencing the home environment.

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Photography by Leo Torri
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Description of the Smart-ologic Corian Living project by Karim Rashid:

The Smart-ologic Corian Living exhibition gave me the opportunity to develop a modular holistic house – a house that can be produced with minimal concave and convex panels and simple tooling. I have always been interested in this notion of a modular house, of efficient dwelling that can be erected simply and quickly, that can be inexpensive and democratic, and customizable with little cause and great effect. I always believed that architecture finally comes down to a system of components, but what we need are industrial elements that are more free form and flexible in their configuration as not to end up in the world of a grid. My other concern was to create these panels with less waste and to have the waste reused.

I wanted create a really positive, interesting, and artistic space for living that echoes the digital technorganic world we live in. Smart-ologic Corian Living also gave me a venue to design interior objects in DuPont Corian advanced surface using also the versions from the 2010 collections Eco-Concrete ed Eco-Terrazzo with recycled content – and other DuPont materials that could be mass produced in a similar biomorphic way. With these elements the spaces are fluid and human and can communicate an organic, soft, pleasurable domestic environment.

I believe that the design of Smart-ologic Corian Living is a metaphor for how technology, housing, furnishing, and space can work together to evoke an increased sense of experience, affect our psyche and bring us a better living, and also enable us to reduce the environmental imprint of our daily decisions and actions.

Like many experiments of the mid-century the house uses a single repeated flat panel. I started with the desire to have a modular system of a single molded panel of DuPont Corian. The panel in DuPont Corian is double layered with a panel of DuPont Energain, a new DuPont solution to enhance energy efficiency and comfort in homes. This system of panels could be reconfigured to different proportions and forms. This modularity was also amplified by the diversity of the color palette, by the multitude of colours of DuPont Corian.

I have also been given the possibility, first in the world, to create a design using an experimental version of DuPont Corian with bio-based ingredients and recycled content and I conceived the Eko Bench, a unique outdoor seating solution integrating a green mantle of grass planted into one of its undulating curves. I also liked to play with the strong materiality of DuPont Zodiaq quartz surface, which was also developed in a version with bio-based ingredients, creating a large and colourful seating area around a column, inspired by the mixing of organic elements with organic form.

The soft organic shape produced for this evocative home concept creates a womb-like structure that is conducive to energy efficacy through the sculptured form, no corners trap hot or cold air. The house relies on sustainable and smart infrastructure for energy consumption and production with water reuse and low impact construction.

With its capability to protect the envelope while letting it breathe, DuPont Tyvek building membrane contributes to the comfort of interior environments. The photovoltaic modules of DuPont, integrated into the roof, create environmentally-sustainable energy. All the lighting is LED for efficiency and low energy consumption and the radiant floors are powered by solar generated energy.

This concept of techno-organic house is the starting point for shaping a smart domestic environment, based on the performance of a variety of different materials and technologies. Enjoy.

Visit the DuPont Corian website – here.

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From April 24th to July 22nd, 2010, the Kreo Gallery in Paris will hold an exhibition of new pieces from the designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.

Description from Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec:

Our interest in industrial design is linked to the unlimited reproduction of objects. Nevertheless, for the past ten years we have been producing work in the unique framework provided by the Galerie kreo. This helps us to breathe into between other projects.

This unique context has often led us to compare our work for the gallery to the use of a sketch pad, a more instinctive form of research free from the constraints imposed by industry, the norms, weight, size or other issues more or less justified by mass production. Here, we give ourselves the time to explore different media and extraordinary techniques that are rejected by industry, to approach unique skills.

Our work for the Galerie kreo has always produced exceptional events. Our research for the galerie kreo is about magic as much as use.

This new exhibition has a certain delicacy : we use leather to cover electric wires, we cover a set of shelves with a strangely matt mineral-looking paint, and we make mirrored conch lamps. In search of mystery.

Photography tahon & bouroullec

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