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Bayshore Drive Residence
Bayshore Drive Residence
Camano, WA, United States
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Bayshore Drive Residence
Camano, WA, United States
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2022
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
The Bayshore Drive Residence is a two-level waterfront home located on the north end of Camano Island. The clients are educators that have spent many years teaching abroad at international schools for American students. The last five years were spent in Saudi Arabia where the husband served as the head of administration for the American School in Riyadh.
A project goal was to design a new home that reflected the couple’s years living abroad and allowed them to display their collection of art, rugs and weavings. They appreciated the style of architecture found in Saudi Arabia yet they did not want to mimic the traditional Islamic aesthetic. Instead, they desired a modern house with low maintenance/resilient materials that took advantage of their waterfront site and would last generations. The exterior materials consist of metal panels, cement panels, concrete and steel. Wood is applied to the courtyard screen wall to add warmth to the exterior. The home is heated and cooled with an energy efficient heat pump system.
Islamic homes are frequently entered through a courtyard offering privacy from the street and a place for the family to gather. Often, there is a water feature located in the courtyard. The Bayshore Drive Residence sits at the base of a hill with houses on the uphill side overlooking the home’s site. To address the need for seclusion, an entry courtyard was designed with privacy screening to block views from the street and the houses on the hill. At the center of the courtyard is a reflection pond and a sitting area for the family to enjoy morning coffee and lunch in the sun. A wood bridge spans the reflection pool to connect the courtyard public circulation space to the privacy of the sitting area.
The house is entered through a glass door opening up to the great room space with views of Skagit Bay beyond. An architectural concrete wall expressed in the north/south direction leads one from the seclusion of the courtyard to the gathering space of a great room (living, dining, kitchen area). The concrete wall becomes a symbolic gesture of the journey from the public realm of the street to the private living space of the great room. Once inside the home, the walls and floors become a gallery-like area for the couple’s collection of rugs, weavings and artwork.
The upper level consists of the great room, living room, kitchen, dining room, primary suite, garage, laundry, pantry and guest powder room. The lower level consists of the family room, three guest bedrooms, guest bathroom, second laundry room and wine cellar. The decks off the upper level follow the angle of the shoreline setback.
A project goal was to design a new home that reflected the couple’s years living abroad and allowed them to display their collection of art, rugs and weavings. They appreciated the style of architecture found in Saudi Arabia yet they did not want to mimic the traditional Islamic aesthetic. Instead, they desired a modern house with low maintenance/resilient materials that took advantage of their waterfront site and would last generations. The exterior materials consist of metal panels, cement panels, concrete and steel. Wood is applied to the courtyard screen wall to add warmth to the exterior. The home is heated and cooled with an energy efficient heat pump system.
Islamic homes are frequently entered through a courtyard offering privacy from the street and a place for the family to gather. Often, there is a water feature located in the courtyard. The Bayshore Drive Residence sits at the base of a hill with houses on the uphill side overlooking the home’s site. To address the need for seclusion, an entry courtyard was designed with privacy screening to block views from the street and the houses on the hill. At the center of the courtyard is a reflection pond and a sitting area for the family to enjoy morning coffee and lunch in the sun. A wood bridge spans the reflection pool to connect the courtyard public circulation space to the privacy of the sitting area.
The house is entered through a glass door opening up to the great room space with views of Skagit Bay beyond. An architectural concrete wall expressed in the north/south direction leads one from the seclusion of the courtyard to the gathering space of a great room (living, dining, kitchen area). The concrete wall becomes a symbolic gesture of the journey from the public realm of the street to the private living space of the great room. Once inside the home, the walls and floors become a gallery-like area for the couple’s collection of rugs, weavings and artwork.
The upper level consists of the great room, living room, kitchen, dining room, primary suite, garage, laundry, pantry and guest powder room. The lower level consists of the family room, three guest bedrooms, guest bathroom, second laundry room and wine cellar. The decks off the upper level follow the angle of the shoreline setback.
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