Prentiss Balance Wickline Architects

North Bay Residence

North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich

NORTH BAY RESIDENCE

Prentiss + Balance + Wickline Architects

LOCATION
United States

AREA
2800.0 ft2

PROJECT YEAR
2009

Text description provided by architect.

The project is located on a stunning but rather restricted site overlooking Griffin Bay on San Juan Island. The most practical area to build was exactly where three beautiful old growth trees had already chosen to live.

North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich
North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich

A prior architect, in a prior design, had proposed chopping them down and building right in the middle of the site. From our perspective, the trees were an important essence of the site and respectfully had to be preserved.

As a result we squeezed the programmatic requirements, kept the clients on a square foot restriction and pressed tight against property setbacks.

North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich
North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich

A further issue was that the site backed up against the county road therefore establishing visual and acoustic privacy was a significant concern. These became the primary initiators of the parti.

DESIGN APPROACH

The delineating concept is a stone wall that sweeps from the parking to the entry, through the house and out the other side, terminating in a hook that nestles the master shower.
North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich
North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich

This is the symbolic and functional shield between the public road and the private living spaces of the home owners. All the primary living spaces and the master suite are on the water side, the remaining rooms are tucked into the hill on the road side of the wall.

Off-setting the solid massing of the stone walls is a pavilion which grabs the views and the light to the south, east and west.

North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich
North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich
North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich

Built in a position to be hammered by the winter storms the pavilion, while light and airy in appearance and feeling, is constructed of glass, steel, stout wood timbers and doors with a stone roof and a slate floor.

The glass pavilion is anchored by two concrete panel chimneys; the windows are steel framed and the exterior skin is of powder coated steel sheathing.

North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich
North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich
North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich


North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich
North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich
North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich
North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich
North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich
North Bay Residence
© Jay Goodrich


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Prentiss Balance Wickline Architects
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Prentiss Balance Wickline Architects
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