Cambridge ON / 2010-2015
southall RESIDENCE.
Located in an established residential community in Cambridge, this 5000 square foot home was designed for a couple, as well as space for their guests and entertaining. In response to this program, the various spaces were arranged to address privacy and connectivity.
/ A pair of stone fireplaces dominate the main approach to the residence, anchoring and delimiting the form of its most generous and public space - the centrally located great room.
The project is defined by five stone-clad, gabled-roof forms that divide the plan of the house into distinct zones of inhabitation. Each of these contains an articulated aspect of the client’s domestic life.
This fragmentary approach to the plan, recalls an agrarian settlement and formally, the volumes reference the archetype of a barn in the Ontario landscape. Stitching these objects together are flat-roofed elements that form a cloister-like, glazed promenade, defining the courtyard.
