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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Sloan Berkes House in Naramata, British Columbia by Allen+Maurer Architects Ltd.April 15th, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Allen+Maurer Architects Ltd. Pebbles lives among the pebbles, as underground garage tunnelled into the steep hillside from the access street at the north-east. It was too steep to build a road to the top of the ridge from where one looks up and down and across the Okanagan Valley and -Lake, so this was the only option. Pebbles is also home to a wine room, kept at the temperature of the earth surrounding it, a foyer, and the geothermal heat pump.  west patio and rusty steel wall, photograph by Martin Knowles
 entrance and underground garage at night, photograph by Martin Knowles Hiking up the stairs between concrete wall, on steps made of rusty steel plate, the ambience changes with a bang arriving in the glass box of Fred, the father of the family who would like so much to be its head. With glass all four sides he had to resort to a box-in-a-box for coats, powder room and pantry. The rest is an open volume containing living, kitchen and dining functions. Fred is supported on steel posts and is covered with structural insulated panels(SIP’s). A porch runs around him, black external shades protect him from too much sun, white interior shades give privacy and good light on those long winter nights.  entrance patio from the S, photograph by Derek Lepper  master bedroom from the NW, photograph by Derek Lepper Wilma is the mother. She is partially buried in the hillside and keeps her family warm under a grass roof when they come for comfort at night, to watch a movie in the media room on a snowy day, or work in the studio. She wears a dress of rusty 10-gauge steel plate that has been rubbed with boiled linseed oil to bring out its bronze like colour and varied patterns. She liked it so much that she made one for Pebbles, who wears it as swing-out garage doors.  the glass house, looking SE, photograph by Derek Lepper  glass house and earth house from the NW, photograph by Derek Lepper  earth house and rusty steel from the NE, photograph by Florian Maurer  earth house and rusty steel from the NE, photograph by Florian Maurer  glass house with blinds down, looking NW, photograph by Florian Maurer  glass house with blinds down, looking SE, photograph by Florian Maurer  detail, looking NE, photograph by Florian Maurer  east patio, looking NE, photograph by Florian Maurer  entrance, looking down the stairs to the underground garage, photograph by Florian Maurer  looking over green roof and glass house to the NW, photograph by Florian Maurer  Image Courtesy © Allen+Maurer Architects Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Allen+Maurer Architects Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Allen+Maurer Architects Ltd.
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