Salvaged lumber and Corten steel were used to create a waterfront house on a British Columbian island that belongs to the founder of Measured Architecture and was designed to explore a "zero-take approach" to design and construction.
The project, called Shor House, is located on Mayne Island, which is part of the Southern Gulf Islands in western Canada. The home is nestled into a sloped site overlooking the Navy Channel.
Measured Architecture has designed a British Columbian waterfront house
Designed by Vancouver-based Measured Architecture, the house belongs to firm founder Clinton Cuddington, who often works remotely from the house, in addition to spending holidays here.
The property features a main dwelling and two small buildings ? one is a guesthouse, and the other is a ceramic and jewellery studio for Cuddington's wife, Monica. Shor House was constructed from salvaged lumber and Corten steel
Much of the lumber from the project came from a house and barn that formally sat on the site and were carefully disassembled, so their parts could be reused.
The original foundation was also preserved, as was a retaining wall made of dry-stacked stone. The wall was reconditioned by master stonemason Tamotsu Tongu, who also advised on the landscape design.
The original foundation retains a wall made of dry-stacked stone
All of the new structures share a design vocabulary that draws upon the reuse of materials and the notion of alchemy ? the "transmutation of a base ...