Recently the Wall Street Journal selected the”Lips Room” Home on Kiawah Island by architect and er Christopher Rose Because its House of the Day. To be certain, with its expansive walls of glass and high-tech-meets-Lowcountry texture, we’re not surprised.
The home is located on the edge of a lagoon on Kiawah Island in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. Sized at feet and built, the house features a large room overlooking the lagoon. A desire to maximize those lagoon views while ensuring the structure could withstand earthquakes and hurricanes drove the property’s design. The extensive use of glass on the back side of the home captures these views while the front is somewhat more traditional in style.
Actually, according to Rose, the client insisted on making the house in general and also the excellent area in particular as transparent as you can. The client was for it when Rose suggested the use of an exposed metal framework to achieve this goal. This led both architect and client down the road to an filled home that adopts its own setting.
Why is it called the”Lips Room” house? Keep reading.
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The roof construction extends out to give shade and shelter to the glass walls and interior from the South Carolina sun. And there’s certainly a hint of mid-century modern in how these wood roofing structures incline and fly out to space.
Privacy wasn’t a concern, since there are no neighbors on the far side of the lagoon and to the sides. So using as much glass and attaining as much transparency as possible was the order of the day. A view from throughout the lagoon reveals exactly how open and how much glass there’s.
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The excellent room includes walls of glass on all sides. The steel frame construction, finished a dark gray, is exposed and also evident in the much of the house.
To minimize the quantity of framework, the doors and windows were manufactured by Henselstone and imported from Germany. Sun control is reached with built-in motorized shades.
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ASID, christopher A Rose AIA
A dark stained bamboo floor grounds the spaces and offers continuity, while the timber ceilings offer a feeling of warmth overhead.
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ASID, christopher A Rose AIA
The glass and stainless steel of this kitchen area is available to the primary living areas.
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The open construction stair complements the metal framed construction of the house. And the walls are clearly treated as thin screen like infill panels.
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The bedroom includes soaring walls of glass and vaulted ceilings. As in the excellent area, motorized window shades control privacy and sunlight.
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The home for those shades is treated as trim that wraps the space and ended in white to blend into the walls. This achieves the best of the transparency and solitude without compromise.
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From the limited-edition wallpaper to the crimson chair to the shag rug, the decoration of a guest bedroom, called the”Lip Room,” is motivated by the adjoining Andy Warhol print. A nice bit of whimsy along with fun.
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The first floor of the home is raised considerably over the floor plane to adapt the potential of flooding, a very real concern in a coastal location. Though the general design is quite modern, the use of traditional lap siding and less glass gives front of the home a conventional appeal, a significant issue when obtaining the layout approved by the local architectural review .
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In the bottom of the entry stair the architect incorporated a very low pool at the landing and put in some bubblers over smooth river rock to provide a hint to the lagoon views which can be found in the interior.
While the steel framework is exposed at the interior of the home, the darker green trim on the outside does the exact same. Walls are treated as mild infill panels in this framework, akin to traditional Japanese design.
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