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The Beach House
Custom Detail | Merit Award
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Our judges singled out these waterjet-cut aluminum screens as a creative example of how to bring classical interest to a contemporary form. Mounted on east and west glass façades, they bracket a double-height stair hall, the contemplative core of a house that otherwise is all about the ocean view. A planted roof on the second floor inspired the abstracted vines-and-flowers pattern, which brings a softer, more natural feeling to the core and sketches the sun’s movement throughout the day. “Because the screens face east and west, the morning light that filters through comes back in the evening through the west side of the house,” says architect Andrew Plumb.
In addition to providing hurricane protection and a counterpoint to the house’s hard geometries, the screens offer privacy from adjacent neighbors on the narrow lot. “You focus on the pattern and don’t see past it, but light still comes into the center of the deep plan,” Plumb says. The 3/8-inch powder-coated aluminum plates swing out so that the windows behind them can be cleaned.—C.W.
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