Goochland Residence

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Goochland Residence

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SMBW Architects, PC
SMBW

Type

Residential › Private House

SIZE

3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

In the rolling Piedmont landscape of rural Goochland County, Virginia will sit a new house, positioned to take advantage of a wide pond view with a U-Shaped plan defining an outdoor rear terrace. The design concept is inspired by the notion of an early American ruin that has been re-inhabited. On axis through a path in the woods, the house appears as a series of low horizontal walls. On the opposite side facing the pond and meadow, the house opens up vertically through tall windows and extends to an exterior terrace. The exterior walls are comprised of two discrete systems: One of load bearing dark gray manganese brick and ground face concrete block masonry cavity walls, and the other of wood framed walls clad in Corten steel panels. Inspired by the visual power and monumentality of ruins, the two L-Shaped masonry walls are conceived as delineating fragments in the landscape which bookend the wood framed walls. Entry occurs where the two systems come together, and glass is used as a hyphen to highlight contrast of color, texture, and material. Construction will begin in the summer 2012.

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Goochland Residence

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