Contemporary Home Design - Greenwich House by Julian King Architect

Contemporary Home Design – Greenwich House

Greenwich House is a contemporary home designed by Julian King Architect, located in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. This Contemporary Home Design was built based on the wishes of the client who feels that a house who “fits” between traditional houses surrounding the site is an important one, built in the New England Shingle Style, as well as a place that spoke of family; that their grandchildren would have fun visiting.

The client’s desire for comforting images of home became the central question of the project: how to provide the familiar, while making something meaningful. The idea was to embrace the expected forms and materials of the surroundings that have come to represent domicile not in a nostalgic way, but as the prosaic basis for revealing images we find shelter from, and what really sustains us. To that end, the expected gable roof is abstracted into an archetypal image of home-a taught, pure, triangular volume-balanced precariously upon an imperfect single stone wall rising out of the bedrock. One has an intimate tactile relationship to this wall; sliding along it through the entry, cooking upon it, inhabiting it in the powder room, building a fire in it, stepping onto it to the second floor bathroom, where one ultimately bathes in it.

The material palette was kept simple: reclaimed wood, local stone, water, and light. Their individual characteristics and roles overlap each other, invoking the relationship between things that continually change-the seasons, the movement of the sun, wind rippling across water, or the graying of cedar shingles over time-and the things that remain, such as immaterial emotions and familial ties-more lasting at times than bedrock-and how these apparent opposite inhabit each other.

In the end, this Contemporary Home Design inviting one to step into that wonderful state of grace grandchildren live in. Via.

Contemporary Home Design - Greenwich House by Julian King Architect

Contemporary Home Design - Greenwich House by Julian King Architect

Contemporary Home Design - Greenwich House by Julian King Architect

Contemporary Home Design - Greenwich House by Julian King Architect