The Screen House, A Home Renovation by Randy Bens

The Screen House, A Home Renovation by Randy Bens........................

A renewal of an inhabited space 1950 is completed planned from Canadian architect Randy Bens. The plan that calls the House of the screen finds in a suburb of Vancouver, Canada. That exactly it is situated in a quarter of the periphery of the post-war period in the city of New Westminster, BC, l' architect is ordered from the customer in order to slowly add a new one of an existing 1,954 bungalow. The neighbouringhood is based to prow of a hill, is rich also with l' modernista architecture of that period. That it is too much small for the customer architect, the existing house is bungalow to form of L. a client same is like artist and the psychologist who has the three ages 17 boys till 26. The new pavement that has been planned dall' architect is meant like the dominion of the parents, while the boys will acquire the main bedrooms of a more apt dimension. L' addition all' inside of the house is made up of a study, master suite and a platform in order to take the advantage of the sight. Architectonic, joined with old and new with the simple and material gestures that will be the simpatrica to the their context it is l' objective of this plan, still fresh Massing and architectonic expression. Desire of stack the new program on the existing wall is influencing the total volumetria. Besides the creation of a new external space to according to plan with l' access to the points of view and the sunlight influences also it. The horizontal screen is introduced in order to contrast the vertical nature of the turning out mass, and l' shadow of the south is of forehead to the stay, than the composition of more resting and balanced is given l' aspect. A covered east voice and a opened space, structured to the west have been created from the shielded one that it extends beyond the stay in both the directions, where will be a stand of a bamboo. Flat Al earth, is to introduce a fioriera in concrete/hoof/wall address in order to strengthen ulteriorly l' orizzontalità of the screen. External composition C' it is the strong desire of having the house answer to 1950 and 1960 post and the houses of the bundle of the quarter. The vertical cedar, slightly in slope roofs, wood to lamellare with beams at sight and beams is all present, but contemporary in their composition. Two devices come used in order to mediate between l' existing and the new openings, are given l' order of facades and cohesion. Over and beyond the openings of existing window it is placed the laminated luminous zinc panels, then is aligned with new openings of which over. Simple thanks to wall flash detail serve like reference for the witness window, mounting and windowsills, and are present on a facade wall. Inner and Material L' slowly main inside is left in great intact part and the tavolozza simple of the pavements in wood, finishes in wood and the walls off-white it is continued for all the new one second slowly and it is made from neutral background for the collection of the customer. As result of is a warm inside is scandito from the intense color and like game of light generated from the screen. The two plans are joined from a scale in steel and new thredsmatch the paving in solid wood of recycled fir that comes used for all according to plan. The millwork new it is constructed from a mixture of a Appleply and wood Plyboo bamboo. While the walls are covered in back-painted blue glass, the millwork in I bathe has the Paperstone, a recycle paper, in plans of job and bathtub. Sul pavement and the walls shower in order to complete the tavolozza, a recycle composita floor tile comes used. PROJECT TEAM & STATISTICS * Dimension: 3500 mq (comprised l' addition 1200 sq ft) * Architecture: Bens Randy * Contracting: Restorations Basil Ltd., New Westminster * Technician of the structures: Structural engineers Ennova Inc. * Millwork: Closets Topal Custom * Photographies: Photography Roger Brooks