Martin-Lancaster House / MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
The Martin-Lancaster house is a 3000 square foot courtyard house, situated on the rugged Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia. It consists of four primary components: (1) a gabled garage/guest house, (2) a gabled social pavilion, (3) a north-facing service bar, and (4) an arrival court between.
Architects: MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
Location: Prospect, Nova Scotia, Canada
Project Area: 3,000 sqf
Photographs: Greg Richardson
The arrival sequence is a procession toward the sea; past the protective garage, down into the protected courtyard, along a bench, into the foyer, then into the double-height living pavilion, and onto a terrace above the sea. The south-facing social pavilion is anchored by a totemic concrete hearth.
This is an abstract, highly restrained project which is an essay on the local material culture traditions of the place. The monolithic zero-detailed, local, cedar-shingled walls and roofs respond well to the frequent wet/dry, freeze/thaw cycles of the labile marine climate. Clean curtain wall glazing allows the landscape to flow through the house. A heavy timber structure in the living pavilion signifies its social function.
The passive solar building strategy is extended to the interior through the use of an in-floor, hydronic radiation system.
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so simply, so clever. but I don’t like that huge tube
What’s with the flat roof? Not to hark but this seems a bit pedestrian and overly fussy for MacKay Lyons. This project is like a reminder of his earlier works which I am not opposed to. It just feels weird because compared to his Messenger houses (the formal pinnacle of his style in my opinion), this seems like a bit of step down. Regardless it’s great to see a project come from him.
The design of the house reminds me of 19th century protestant villages. I can clearly imagine a woman in black dress walking out of the door and shouting at me to stop playing music or something like that.
people criticizing this sort of project can only be students
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