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Ottawa, Canada
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DASH Home
Ottawa, Canada
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2019
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
The DASH Home is a true forever home, designed to accommodate both the current lifestyle of a young family and the future needs of the parents as eventual seniors and empty nesters. The clients had two specific requests: the new home needed to permit easy circulation within it even as they aged, and construction needed to preserve the mature trees on the steeply-sloped site.
Unlike a typical house, the DASH Home (DASH being an acronym of each family member’s first name) places the primary living functions on the second floor. The grade-level includes a small stair hall, a two-car garage, a caretaker suite (to be completed if ever needed), and an elevator shaft (currently empty, with the elevator to be added if ever required).
There are two architectural volumes of the home: an oval that houses bedrooms and a study (the domain of teenagers), and a long rectangular volume that projects deep into and above the property, holding the kitchen, living/dining areas, and a master bedroom suite (i.e., the spaces of civilization). All spaces are designed with cross ventilation to minimize reliance on air conditioning, and the selective distribution of clerestory windows and skylights provides significant interior daylight and views of the sky and treetops while ensuring privacy.
As a thank you to our clients who are professors of English literature, we created a small memento that refers back to their commitment to respecting the site’s trees and the subsequent placement of their home in the treetops. Brass plates set into the tile floor are etched with text by the 19th-century English poet Christina Rossetti: Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
Unlike a typical house, the DASH Home (DASH being an acronym of each family member’s first name) places the primary living functions on the second floor. The grade-level includes a small stair hall, a two-car garage, a caretaker suite (to be completed if ever needed), and an elevator shaft (currently empty, with the elevator to be added if ever required).
There are two architectural volumes of the home: an oval that houses bedrooms and a study (the domain of teenagers), and a long rectangular volume that projects deep into and above the property, holding the kitchen, living/dining areas, and a master bedroom suite (i.e., the spaces of civilization). All spaces are designed with cross ventilation to minimize reliance on air conditioning, and the selective distribution of clerestory windows and skylights provides significant interior daylight and views of the sky and treetops while ensuring privacy.
As a thank you to our clients who are professors of English literature, we created a small memento that refers back to their commitment to respecting the site’s trees and the subsequent placement of their home in the treetops. Brass plates set into the tile floor are etched with text by the 19th-century English poet Christina Rossetti: Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
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