Private Residence - NC
This private residence, set in the countryside of North Carolina, not far from Charlotte, is a house for a couple who’s children no longer live with them but visit regularly. The house is based on a ‘H’ plan in layout. Two wings of sleeping accommodation and one connecting space. One wing contains the master bedroom with en suite bathroom,a dressing room and a library/study with a private terrace.The second wing on the opposite side of the main living accommodation contains 2 guest bedrooms, bathroom, entrance hall, cloakroom and a utilities room. The central connecting space is the main living space. A large double height room with a single pitched ceiling for open plan living and entertainment. To the entrance side there is the kitchen space followed by the centrally located dinning table and then the lounge seating area. To the North where the ceiling pitch is the greatest, there is a wall of glass sliding doors that open up to a reflection pool terrace. Flanked on each side by the bedroom accommodation the distant countryside views are framed. A clerestory of operable glazing is in line above the patio doors. Facing south there is a partially covered patio accessed through the same arrangement of sliding glass doors as the pool side. This arrangement encourages natural cross ventilation in the house. Beyond the living space facing south two ‘blinker’ walls extend out perpendicular to the building and act as book ends. Between these walls there is contained an inverse ha-ha, a solid wave of grass parallel to the building for privacy. A man-made landscape feature that raises up to ‘eye height’ and creates a visual barrier to the driveway on he other side of the wall and from street beyond.
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