25:8 Architecture + Urban Design adds "bird wing" extension to Ottawa house
Canadian studio 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design has added a cedar-clad extension with a shape informed by birds in flight to a house in Ottawa.
Named Ferndale Flightdeck, the 400-square foot (37-square metre) extension holds a recreation room, yoga studio, home office and a rooftop observation deck that allows the owners to watch birds in the surrounding diverse and ecologically rich landscape.
25:8 Architecture + Urban Design added a cedar-clad extension to an Ottawa home
"The project was inspired by a bird in flight. The architecture aspires to challenge the traditional conventions of 'firmness' by creating a dynamic structure that makes the building appear to soar," the 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design team told Dezeen.
The Ottawa-based studio completed the renovation in 2023, maximising the home's footprint by building on top of an existing carport. The addition is a linear box with a wrapping screened porch
"Architecturally, the most distinctive element of the Ferndale Flighdeck is the 'wing' that supports the new addition," the team said.
The addition is a linear box with a wrapping screened porch ? in cedar to reference the surrounding trees and serve as a carbon-sequestering material ? its profile slants toward the rear of the house and dips down to touch the ground plane.
Its design was informed by birds in flight
The underside of the wing is used as discrete storage for the homeowner's paddle boards and disguises the new V-shaped column that ...
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