On
those occasions when Charles can manage a site visit, the results are not
only of a broader scope, but almost always of a design nature far more
aggressive than without the advantage of visiting a site personally. Here
we have an overhanging Arbor to accentuate the entry and provide some detailed
workmanship to an architecture of purposeful simplicity.
The
residence featured a sparse and uncluttered facade. Creating an entry
grid gate, and overhanging grid Entry Arbor awning helped to introduce a few
subtle, but related details.
Now
and again we'll include a 'before' photograph. Here we are
illustrating the utter loss of any defining detail upon approach
to the primary entrance. The stage was set with an entry gate at
the front wall (Garden Gate
#84), and followed upon entry into the property with the new
awning arbor mimicking many of the gate's detailing.
Showing
the top of the Arbor awning, with the fluted tracks. The
plexiglas fits between the tracks, and the run-off is channeled along the
flutings to the perimeter.
NOTES:
> A number of details in the home's architecture suggested a work that would
accomplish three things:
--1) Establish the entry while providing a focal point to a residence in need
of defining details.
--2) Mirror the distinctive radiused corners of the residence.
--3) Enable Charles to finally enact a design that has pestered him for far too long; an overhead structure with glass or plexiglas lites that enjoys southern exposure. The exposure is everything, in that here we are available to the arc of the sun's path for a number of hours every day. As the sunlight strikes the glass, the light is thrown onto not just the surface below, but diffused through the glass entry door and onto the wood floors of the foyer with a coloring that is established by the color of the awning lites.
On
those occasions when Charles can manage a site visit, the results are not
only of a broader scope, but almost always of a design nature far more
aggressive than without the advantage of visiting a site personally. Here
we have an overhanging Arbor to accentuate the entry and provide some detailed
workmanship to an architecture of purposeful simplicity.