Allandale House / William O’Brien Jr
© William O'Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
Young architect William O’Brien Jr was one of the practices invited to this years P.S.1 competition (awarded to SO-IL). He shared with us this cabin project based on an extruded A-frame. Interesting wall configuration, take a look at the section.
Check all the images, some drawings and description after the break.
© William O'Brien Jr - site plan
© William O'Brien Jr - sections 02
Allandale House is an A-frame(s) house for an idiosyncratic connoisseur and her family. Along with its occupants, the Allandale House also provides space for an eccentric collection of artifacts that resist straightforward classification. Wines, rare books, stuffed birds and an elk mount are among the relics on display in this small vacation house.
© William O'Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
The house links three horizontal extrusions of “leaning,” or asymmetrical A-frames. The skinny A-frame on the western side contains the library, wine cellar and garage. The wide A-frame in the center of the house is dedicated to two floors of bedrooms and bathrooms. The medium A-frame on the eastern side consists of living, kitchen and dining areas. The house aims to undermine the seeming limitations of a triangular section by augmenting and revealing the extreme proportion in the vertical direction, and utilizing the acutely angled corners meeting the floor as moments for thickened walls, telescopic apertures and built-in storage.
© William O'Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
The relationship between the need for exposed storage and the interior liner of the house is a reciprocal one. Ostensibly problematic head-height limitations posed by the angled ceiling/wall planes are resolved by allowing the interior surface of the ceiling/wall to deviate from the roof surface as it nears the floor plane to become plumb. The thickness created between the outer roof surface and the inner wall surface is then reclaimed as poche from which to carve, creating bookshelves and showcases. Perceptually, the ambition is to tuck the pieces on display within the implied surface of the interior liner, enabling the items to be seen, while providing the possible conception of the space as a simple volume.
© William O'Brien Jr - model study
© William O'Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
A range of possible configurations were tested. Variables included: (1) the relative orientation of adjacent tube segments, (2) the severity of rotation between segments, (3) the sequence of the three different bay-widths, and (4) the location of the apex of the triangle relative to its base. Given the site features—steeply sloped with a clearing in the north easterly direction—the tube establishes a parallel relationship to the contours of the site and orients the living area toward the clearing. The inclusion of a second floor is only possible in the widest A-frame extrusion. Therefore, the desire to centralize the location of the bedrooms positions the wide A-frame extrusion second in the sequence. Lastly, in tandem with the geometric principles associated with the severity of rotation, the variable location of the apex acts as the formal smoothing agent between tube segments allowing the roof planes to fold along single seams.
© William O'Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
Design Principal: William O’Brien Jr.
Location: Mountain West, USA
Project Team: Bhujon Kang
Project Year: 2009-2010
Visualization: Peter Guthrie
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- © William O’Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
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- © William O’Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
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- © William O’Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
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- © William O’Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
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- © William O’Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
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- © William O’Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
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- © William O’Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
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- © William O’Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
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- © William O’Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
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- © William O’Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
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- © William O’Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie
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- © William O’Brien Jr – site plan
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- © William O’Brien Jr – floor plan
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- © William O’Brien Jr – section 01
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- © William O’Brien Jr – sections 02
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- © William O’Brien Jr – model study
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- © William O’Brien Jr – detail
I love the house and love the images. At first I thought they were pictures!
Terrific job Dr. Guthrie!
stunningly simple. i love the two chairs sitting in front of the picture window looking out at the trees. at first i thought the landscape was a rendering…
Very nice Peter, like always !
Well done Pete and well done Mr O’Brien. So simple and elegant.
some of the best renderings i’ve seen in a long time.
This is a great project with beautiful renderings. The clients must be proud.
I am humbled.
Is the location on google maps showing that this is being built in a cemetery?? strange…
SPUD:
“Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.”
We don’t have the exact address for every project, so it just indicates a near location.
Some clients don’t wish the exact location of their project to be published, so their home/house/project becomes does not become a target for pilgrimage of architecture enthusiasts…
Congrats – great project!!!
I would really like to see this house built!!!
Incredible project. Congrats!
It’s beautiful, no doubt.
I find it interesting that there are more comments about/for Peter than William though.
I'd Live Here: Allandale House. http://bit.ly/cw5wT9
RT @nicholaspatten I'd Live Here: Allandale House. http://bit.ly/cw5wT9
Superb! Such beautiful, poetic geomety. I just love it!
beautiful project! Peter, renders are amazing…!
A true advancement. Not simply lux but imaginably practical to be remembered.
A-Frame “Allandale House: A Cabin of Curiosities” http://is.gd/c9Bn8 by Architect William O’Brien Jr. via @archdaily’s http://bit.ly/deNLb3
I love the light~
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Very terrific little project and poetic
5:16 PM Jul 30th
Just love the scenery and created atmosphere in this project! http://www.archdaily.com/58210/allandale-house-william-obrien-jr/ Well done!
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