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Shantih
Hunts Point, Canada
Project Featured on Mar 14, 2014
Shantih is a refuge. She is composed of multiple contrasting and
duelling identities. She is modest and elaborate, finely crafted and
possibly repetitive, big, loud and bright while also sombre, eerily
mysterious and pensive. Her two arms wrap around and hold onto the land
sloping away from her towards the infinite sea. Shantih is located in
Hunts Point, Nova Scotia, a small beach town in Queen’s County. The
region’s wide harbours, fisheries, abundant timber and waterways
attracted French fishermen and fur traders as early as the sixteenth
century and American settlers from Colonial New England in 1759.
The clients make their primary home in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When the
retired couple is not at sea on an adventure they are deeply involved
in providing a caring and supportive environment for youth with mental
illness.
The clients required that their new cottage engage the landscape,
have a modest and hidden façade facing the road and provide a venue for
their ever-growing extended family. The natural grassy bowl in the
middle of the property had long been a playground for their young
grandchildren and so the cottage was required to engage the field in the
foreground. The cottage would need to provide a quiet retreat from the
busy city life and offer multiple environments for interior/exterior
engagement, rest, quiet and joy.
Shantih provides an intended drama – the joy of seeing the
unfathomable view again for the first time repeatedly. The building is
composed of varying contrasts through space, acoustics, contrasting
light and textures to build that narrative. A building wide strip
window, with unique views from each vantage point tie the ends of the
building together. Long corridors of light turned darkness and noise
turned quiet in “compression” zones create the crescendo at the mouth of
the grande bright, loud view.
The cottage is composed of two wings flanking a central great room.
The south wing encompasses all of the primary dwelling units while the
opposing wing houses all of the guest and less frequently used rooms. A
cross-grained main entry pulls visitors inside one of its two flaps (the
other for the basement) along on of the a long corridor to the first of
3 compression zones before entering the main space which is supported
by 2 foot deep engineered wood beams. The great room includes a kitchen,
dining and living room including a 6 foot long gas fireplace. The main
space is adjoined by corridors which lead to either the guest wing, the
primary wing or an exterior space sunroom will fully collapsible glazed
walls and suspended wood fireplace. Concrete floors, exposed wood and
locally fabricated millwork make up the space palette.The buildings’ exterior skin is composed of lightly stained eastern
white cedar shingles, fine horizontal slats, exposed poplar soffits,
stainless steel chimneys and a crisp white aerofoil brise soleil. The
rear (street) of the cottage is a long and low horizontal shy line just
above the horizon while the private façade (ocean) is tall, proud and
open to the western daylight and ocean view.
The simultaneous joy of light, space, and sound are never more
beautiful than when in juxtaposition with darkness, confinement, and
solitude. Compression zones from the threshold into the great room from
all adjoining spaces.
duelling identities. She is modest and elaborate, finely crafted and
possibly repetitive, big, loud and bright while also sombre, eerily
mysterious and pensive. Her two arms wrap around and hold onto the land
sloping away from her towards the infinite sea. Shantih is located in
Hunts Point, Nova Scotia, a small beach town in Queen’s County. The
region’s wide harbours, fisheries, abundant timber and waterways
attracted French fishermen and fur traders as early as the sixteenth
century and American settlers from Colonial New England in 1759.
The clients make their primary home in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When the
retired couple is not at sea on an adventure they are deeply involved
in providing a caring and supportive environment for youth with mental
illness.
The clients required that their new cottage engage the landscape,
have a modest and hidden façade facing the road and provide a venue for
their ever-growing extended family. The natural grassy bowl in the
middle of the property had long been a playground for their young
grandchildren and so the cottage was required to engage the field in the
foreground. The cottage would need to provide a quiet retreat from the
busy city life and offer multiple environments for interior/exterior
engagement, rest, quiet and joy.
Shantih provides an intended drama – the joy of seeing the
unfathomable view again for the first time repeatedly. The building is
composed of varying contrasts through space, acoustics, contrasting
light and textures to build that narrative. A building wide strip
window, with unique views from each vantage point tie the ends of the
building together. Long corridors of light turned darkness and noise
turned quiet in “compression” zones create the crescendo at the mouth of
the grande bright, loud view.
The cottage is composed of two wings flanking a central great room.
The south wing encompasses all of the primary dwelling units while the
opposing wing houses all of the guest and less frequently used rooms. A
cross-grained main entry pulls visitors inside one of its two flaps (the
other for the basement) along on of the a long corridor to the first of
3 compression zones before entering the main space which is supported
by 2 foot deep engineered wood beams. The great room includes a kitchen,
dining and living room including a 6 foot long gas fireplace. The main
space is adjoined by corridors which lead to either the guest wing, the
primary wing or an exterior space sunroom will fully collapsible glazed
walls and suspended wood fireplace. Concrete floors, exposed wood and
locally fabricated millwork make up the space palette.The buildings’ exterior skin is composed of lightly stained eastern
white cedar shingles, fine horizontal slats, exposed poplar soffits,
stainless steel chimneys and a crisp white aerofoil brise soleil. The
rear (street) of the cottage is a long and low horizontal shy line just
above the horizon while the private façade (ocean) is tall, proud and
open to the western daylight and ocean view.
The simultaneous joy of light, space, and sound are never more
beautiful than when in juxtaposition with darkness, confinement, and
solitude. Compression zones from the threshold into the great room from
all adjoining spaces.
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