Bienville House Domum Architectura Consilio ab Nathan Fell

Opus Bienville House Domum Architectura Consilio a designatore Nathan Fell est victor maxime honoratus praemii praestigiosissimi 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Aureum in Categoria Certaminis Architectura.

AurumArchitectura· 2020

Bienville House Domum Architectura Consilio

a Nathan Fell

Cliens: Nathan Fell Architecture

Victor praemii Praemium A' Design Award Aureum in Categoria Architectura

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Designum

De Bienville House Domum Architectura Consilio

Morsus Mihi opus domus Dei huius ut eos in domum suam requiritur ad diuturnitam domesticas, quod est praeter turbulentos opus et schola ad sanitatem. Coeperunt cogitare quasi tot familiis tam suburbana movéntur permutandi propinquitas urbis augere velit diam amoenis maiorem aditus esset. Motabilem quam procul abessent, voluit aedificare domum novam et non paenitebit Dominum umbraticis limitations in domum suam vitam in urbana multum parvis. Quod organizing project erat in principle aditus ad partum a velit ut quam maxime locis communibus.

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De Praemium A' Design Award Aureum

Bienville House Domum Architectura Consilio victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aureum, honoris amplissimi formis primi ordinis, mirabilibus et praestantibus dati. Victores Aurei sunt opera valde nova, provida et splendida, quae ingenium, sapientiam et peritiam auctorum suorum referunt. Exspectatur Bienville House Domum Architectura Consilio inventum laudatissimum, inclinationes creans et monumentale fore, quod pretium inauditum afferat. Haec forma Aureo praemio victa est incepto mirabile et honoratum, quod fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovet. Bienville House Domum Architectura Consilio cupiditatem vehementem excitat, studium accendit, ingenium creandi fovet et capit.

Post Designum

Fasciculus Nuntii

Merita, sodales gregis et singula technica a designatore praebita.

Proprietates Singulares: Forms are configured to accentuate transparency between 1st Floor interior spaces and exterior. Upper floors contain private spaces, wrapped by exterior surfaces forming an echelon of suspended cubes legible from multiple viewpoints. Walls supporting the cubic forms are a series of exposed concrete walls with a gap between the walls and the cubic form to render each (the wall and cubes) distinctly. The static forms juxtapose the animated interior space as a frame, reinforcing the transparency.
Dimensiones et Involucrum: Thermomass, Cast in Place Concrete Walls, two walls, 30 ft tall x 73 ft long. American Fiber Cement, Exterior Cladding and 1st Floor Ceiling, Approximately 4200 sf. LaCantina Sliding Glass Doors 12 ft high x 40 ft long, 12 ft high x 14 ft long and 12 ft high x 16 ft long. Lumenwerx, 1st Floor Linear Downlights, VIA 4 LED (22 lights). Minka Air, 1st Floor Ceiling Fans, 8 fans.
Notulae: Urban, Outside, Transparency, Frame, Mass, Duplex, Open, Monolithic, Cubes, Communal
Technologia Productionis: The exterior load bearing walls are concrete cast in place board formed ThermoMass walls which help stabilize the temperature through the thermal mass of the inside wall. Due to site constraints it was only possible to cast the 30 feet tall wall in 10 feet pours across the site, then pull the forms and frame floor as the walls cured. Form panels were reassembled above only after floor were framed.
Provocatio Designandi: New Orleans is a city that is often proudly slow to change, and sometimes more romantic about the past than future. This can cast an air of inevitability over new residential development within the city, that tawdry mimicry (more associated with suburban development) is the only possible path for a design. The house is constructed using materials that make sense environmentally even if they may be unconventional regionally while using certain historic paradigms a precedent (such as the poly-entry lowest level).
Investigatio: Materials had to be research for practical constructability, affordability and visual appeal. Additionally, the design had to comply with local flood zone requirements, historic, zoning and code provisions without a variance. The original concept had to compressed back due to these regulation and practical restraints, resulting in a more complicated design.
Inspiratio: Logistics of a working family requires family members stay tethered to their homes for longer periods than each would prefer. This can become disruptive to your wellness when all your time at school, work and home is spent indoors. The homeowners preferred the city to suburbs, so rather than moving far away, they decided to make a bold change by building a new house that flipped the script on indoor home life on a small urban lot.
Duratio Operis: The project is located in New Orleans, LA (USA) and started in January of 2017. It was completed in June of 2019.
Cursus Operationis: The duplex maximizes use of a small urban lot with space for or groups of people in each unit. The central goal of the design was to configure communal spaces in a way that best accesses outdoor light, air and volume. The rear unit consists of 4 beds, 3.5 baths and the front is a rental unit with 3 beds, 2.5 baths. The layout orients the rental unit as its public face, actively engaging travelers with the city, while mirroring the position of the primary unit with the rear yard to favor seclusion.
Patentes: Copyrights belong to Nathan Fell
Agnitiones Imaginum: All Photographs by Justin Cordova. All Drawings by Nathan Fell Architecture.