Concrete House / Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects

This project involved an extensive redecorating and cast 1974 existing-concrete processing and brick for two in a House for a family house. Called unaffectionately area as "the bunker" when the new owners purchased the House in 2001, the original house turned its back on the street and external appearances was very private. In the open plan support program which resulted in no fluid arrangement private space dedicated.

Architects: Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects
Location: Piedmont, California
Landscape architects: Lutsko & Associates
Contractor: Ryan Associates
Project year: 2007
Contractor: Ryan Associates General contractors

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The original 7,000-square-foot House was built by and for a concrete mogul whose company has provided concrete for road near 13.Therefore, the execution of existing cast in place concrete barrel vaults was exquisite - a clear testament to the original client love and the architect of the Kimbell Kahn Museum.However, because the House was built as a suite of rooms organized around a central court arrangement, privacy was at a premium, the only sources of light coming from the Interior and the rear patios.The challenge of the project helped the new owners to understand how the House could be made liveable for a family without sacrificing positive qualities suggested by the original architecture.

The redecorating aimed to make it practical to upgrade finishes and a family home and usability while remaining faithful to its original exposed materials and visuelle.Le main living spaces opening extensive spirit house kitchen and bathroom was reconfigured to maximize the flexibility of the space - improving spatial continuity and the opening of the existing home while creating opportunities for enclosures privées.Tous work was coded to highlight the difference between Moose, bricks and travertine and new interventions manufacturing space shell concrete material.

Changes in shell are wenge, travertine Bruni bronze anodized aluminum, while the new interventions are white oak, engraved glass, white marble, white or white plaster or hot-rolled steel painted bouteur.Dans living room, a glass Cabinet houses a home on axis with the pool beyond .Pleinement usable glass doors sliding open perceptually extend the Interior in the Cour.La space new kitchen can be opened to engage fully in the life of the House, or can be closed off the coast through the doors of folding surdimensionnés.Trois device formal occasions bedrooms news - developed to the point where pieces of processing that is "inserted" into existing masonry - shell were added at home, each requiring the original Windows solid exterior walls.

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