Balmoral House 2
Longevity was the driving force behind this project. Tailored for a growing family, the design offers a series of framed views and memorable spaces.
It is the temptation of any architect to make a bespoke home a showpiece, though it’s often restraint that makes a design truly spectacular. For this family home, great care was taken in providing a natural and neutral materiality, privacy, and a more modest street presence.
Landscape is deployed as a natural buffer to the street, and great care taken to hone a neutral materiality.
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Emphasis was placed on apertures to the garden, with landscape deployed as a natural buffer to the street. Inside, a series of flexible spaces are orientated to embrace the north-east aspect, and blur the boundaries between indoors and outdoors, public and private spaces.
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Spaces embrace the northeast aspect, and blur boundaries between indoors and out, public and private.
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Natural materials lend strength and warmth in a composition to soften the building form, while wrapping inside to out. Rammed earth and concrete podiums give rise to zinc-clad sculptural canopies framing or screening views. Within the building’s embrace, sheltered terraces, courtyards and the swimming pool are orientated towards the Balmoral slopes and harbour.
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