Open riser cantilevering concrete staircase with structural glass central panel, glass floors and concealed lighting. Photography: Lyndon Douglas
ロンドンにある高級な中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな階段の写真

Lynnette Bauer - 360REI
ミネアポリスにある高級な中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな階段 (ワイヤーの手すり) の写真

Flowerbox
ニューヨークにある高級な中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな階段 (ガラスフェンス) の写真

Photographer: Preston Stutzman Design Firm: Baldwin Interiors
マイアミにある高級な中くらいなビーチスタイルのおしゃれな階段の写真

The Narrabeen House is located on the edge of Narrabeen Lagoon and is fortunate to have outlook across water to an untouched island dense with casuarinas. By contrast, the street context is unremarkable without the slightest hint of the lagoon beyond the houses lining the street and manages to give the impression of being deep in suburbia. The house is new and replaces a former 1970s cream brick house that functioned poorly and like many other houses from the time, did little to engage with the unique environmental qualities of the lagoon. In starting this project, we clearly wanted to re-dress the connection with the lagoon and island, but also found ourselves drawn to the suburban qualities of the street and this dramatic contrast between the front and back of the property. This led us to think about the project within the framework of the ‘suburban ideal’ - a framework that would allow the house to address the street as any other suburban house would, while inwardly pursuing the ideals of oasis and retreat where the water experience could be used to maximum impact - in effect, amplifying the current contrast between street and lagoon. From the street, the house’s composition is built around the entrance, driveway and garage like any typical suburban house however the impact of these domestic elements is diffused by melding them into a singular architectural expression and form. The broad facade combined with the floating skirt detail give the house a horizontal proportion and even though the dark timber cladding gives the building a ‘stealth’ like appearance, it still withholds the drama of the lagoon beyond. This sets up two key planning strategies. Firstly, a central courtyard is introduced as the principal organising element for the planning with all of the house’s key public spaces - living room, dining room, kitchen, study and pool - grouped around the courtyard to connect these spaces visually, and physically when the courtyard walls are opened up. The arrangement promotes a socially inclusive dynamic as well as extending the spatial opportunities of the house. The courtyard also has a significant environmental role bringing sun, light and air into the centre of the house. Secondly, the planning is composed to deliberately isolate the occupant from the suburban surrounds to heighten the sense of oasis and privateness. This process begins at the street bringing visitors through a succession of exterior spaces that gradually compress and remove the street context through a composition of fences, full height screens and thresholds. The entry sequence eventually terminates at a solid doorway where the sense of intrigue peaks. Rather than entering into a hallway, one arrives in the courtyard where the full extent of the private domain, the lagoon and island are revealed and any sense of the outside world removed. The house also has an unusual sectional arrangement driven partly by the requirement to elevate the interior 1.2m above ground level to safeguard against flooding but also by the desire to have open plan spaces with dual aspect - north for sun and south for the view. Whilst this introduces issues with the scale relationship of the house to its neighbours, it enables a more interesting multi- level relationship between interior and exterior living spaces to occur. This combination of sectional interplay with the layout of spaces in relation to the courtyard is what enables the layering of spaces to occur - it is possible to view the courtyard, living room, lagoon side deck, lagoon and island as backdrop in just one vista from the study. Flood raising 1200mm helps by introducing level changes that step and advantage the deeper views Porosity radically increases experience of exterior framed views, elevated The vistas from the key living areas and courtyard are composed to heighten the sense of connection with the lagoon and place the island as the key visual terminating feature. The materiality further develops the notion of oasis with a simple calming palette of warm natural materials that have a beneficial environmental effect while connecting the house with the natural environment of the lagoon and island.

エッセンにある高級な中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな階段 (混合材の手すり) の写真

Contemporary glass staircase Photographer: Nolasco Studios
ロサンゼルスにある高級な中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな階段 (ガラスフェンス) の写真

パリにある高級な広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな階段 (金属の手すり) の写真

オレンジカウンティにある高級な広いトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれな階段の写真

Crib Creative
パースにある高級な中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな階段の写真

Completed with Xtreme EffeX Custom Manufacturing Corp
バンクーバーにある高級な広いビーチスタイルのおしゃれな階段の写真

Scala su misura in ferro bianco con pedata in legno Foto di Valentina Sommariva
ボローニャにある高級な中くらいなモダンスタイルのおしゃれな階段 (金属の手すり) の写真

Staircase: A solid white railing and open steel treads turn this staircase into a sculptural asset for the space. A lower staircase has a sand-blasted glass rail creating a composition of materials. Photos: Daniel Zitoun

This feature stair makes quite the impression as you ascend, capturing views to the pacific ocean during the day, and glowing from within at night, courtesy of a custom hand blown glass chandelier, nearly 30 feet tall.

Completed with Xtreme EffeX Custom Manufacturing Corp
バンクーバーにある高級な広いビーチスタイルのおしゃれな階段の写真

パリにある高級な広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな階段 (金属の手すり) の写真

Farshid Assassi
シーダーラピッズにある高級な中くらいなモダンスタイルのおしゃれな階段 (ガラスフェンス) の写真

La escalera metálica constituye el eje de la casa, dando acceso a la zona privada en la planta alta, y llevándonos también a la zona social en la planta baja. Se ha realizado en estructura metálica lacada al horno, en negro, siguiendo un diseño escultórico autoportante.

A warm palette of materials. The Balmoral House is located within the lower north-shore suburb of Balmoral. The site presents many difficulties being wedged shaped, on the low side of the street, hemmed in by two substantial existing houses and with just half the land area of its neighbours. Where previously the site would have enjoyed the benefits of a sunny rear yard beyond the rear building alignment, this is no longer the case with the yard having been sold-off to the neighbours. Our design process has been about finding amenity where on first appearance there appears to be little. The design stems from the first key observation, that the view to Middle Harbour is better from the lower ground level due to the height of the canopy of a nearby angophora that impedes views from the first floor level. Placing the living areas on the lower ground level allowed us to exploit setback controls to build closer to the rear boundary where oblique views to the key local features of Balmoral Beach and Rocky Point Island are best. This strategy also provided the opportunity to extend these spaces into gardens and terraces to the limits of the site, maximising the sense of space of the 'living domain'. Every part of the site is utilised to create an array of connected interior and exterior spaces The planning then became about ordering these living volumes and garden spaces to maximise access to view and sunlight and to structure these to accommodate an array of social situations for our Client’s young family. At first floor level, the garage and bedrooms are composed in a linear block perpendicular to the street along the south-western to enable glimpses of district views from the street as a gesture to the public realm. Critical to the success of the house is the journey from the street down to the living areas and vice versa. A series of stairways break up the journey while the main glazed central stair is the centrepiece to the house as a light-filled piece of sculpture that hangs above a reflecting pond with pool beyond. The architecture works as a series of stacked interconnected volumes that carefully manoeuvre down the site, wrapping around to establish a secluded light-filled courtyard and terrace area on the north-eastern side. The expression is 'minimalist modern' to avoid visually complicating an already dense set of circumstances. Warm natural materials including off-form concrete, neutral bricks and blackbutt timber imbue the house with a calm quality whilst floor to ceiling glazing and large pivot and stacking doors create light-filled interiors, bringing the garden inside. In the end the design reverses the obvious strategy of an elevated living space with balcony facing the view. Rather, the outcome is a grounded compact family home sculpted around daylight, views to Balmoral and intertwined living and garden spaces that satisfy the social needs of a growing young family. Photo: Katherine Lu