PETER BRAITHWAITE STUDIO | Photo Julian Parkinson
“Pushing the boundaries of a residential home in the West End of Halifax, the Armcrescent Residence borrows the form of the surrounding Georgian houses, but excudes the refinement of an elevated contemporary home.
Designed for clients and their five children, the residence is large in presence, available storage space, and offers many areas for familial congregation immersed in natural light. Featuring state of the art geothermal heating and cooling, the home aims to rely on and support renewable energy sources. Externally, the form alludes to the timely neighbouring precedents whereas the cladding takes a modern approach. Through refined material palette and the clever allocation of cladding, the building appears as if it were wrapped in one material and the portions that are carved away from it reveal another. This distinction of materials is translated into the interior where the custom crafted millwork pieces reflect the same modern colour palette and material treatment.”
Discreetly inserted onto an outcrop of the Canadian shield, among mature hemlock and deciduous tress, the home is meant to pay tribute to the living forest. Celebrated both outside and inside, wood dominates a restrained palette of materials. The prematurely aged plank cladding, exposed framework, and various other interior finishes showcase all the richness of […]
what do BTUs represent and why do manufacturers provide this information to compare wood stoves and fireplaces? Simply put, BTUs are a unit of measurement used to identify the amount of heat released per hour from a heating appliance. This data can be very useful when buying an electric or gas fireplace since these appliances […]
