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Pebbles lives among the pebbles, as underground garage tunnelled into the steep hillside from the access street at the north-east. It was too steep to build a road to the top of the ridge from where one looks up and down and across the Okanagan Valley and -Lake, so this was the only option. Pebbles is also home to a wine room, kept at the temperature of the earth surrounding it, a foyer, and the geothermal heat pump.
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west patio and rusty steel wall, photograph by Martin Knowles
- Architects: Allen+Maurer Architects Ltd.
- Project: Sloan Berkes House
- Location: 171 Village Heights Place, Naramata, BC, Canada
- Photography: Martin Knowles, Derek Lepper and Florian Maurer
- Architect of Record: Allen+Maurer Architects Ltd. (now Landform Architecture and Design Build Ltd.) (http://www.allenmaurer.com/home.htm)
- Design: Florian Maurer, MAIBC, MRAIC, LEED AP (Florian Maurer Architect (http://florianmaurer.ca/home.htm)
- Structural: Fast+Epp Structural Engineers, Vancouver (www.fastepp.com)
- Contractor: Artifex Design Build Ltd. (now Landform Architecture and Design Build Ltd.)
- Completion Date: 2013
- Software used: AutoCAD LT and Sketchup
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entrance and underground garage at night, photograph by Martin Knowles
Hiking up the stairs between concrete wall, on steps made of rusty steel plate, the ambience changes with a bang arriving in the glass box of Fred, the father of the family who would like so much to be its head. With glass all four sides he had to resort to a box-in-a-box for coats, powder room and pantry. The rest is an open volume containing living, kitchen and dining functions. Fred is supported on steel posts and is covered with structural insulated panels(SIP’s). A porch runs around him, black external shades protect him from too much sun, white interior shades give privacy and good light on those long winter nights.
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entrance patio from the S, photograph by Derek Lepper
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master bedroom from the NW, photograph by Derek Lepper
Wilma is the mother. She is partially buried in the hillside and keeps her family warm under a grass roof when they come for comfort at night, to watch a movie in the media room on a snowy day, or work in the studio. She wears a dress of rusty 10-gauge steel plate that has been rubbed with boiled linseed oil to bring out its bronze like colour and varied patterns. She liked it so much that she made one for Pebbles, who wears it as swing-out garage doors.
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the glass house, looking SE, photograph by Derek Lepper
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glass house and earth house from the NW, photograph by Derek Lepper
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earth house and rusty steel from the NE, photograph by Florian Maurer
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earth house and rusty steel from the NE, photograph by Florian Maurer
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glass house with blinds down, looking NW, photograph by Florian Maurer
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glass house with blinds down, looking SE, photograph by Florian Maurer
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detail, looking NE, photograph by Florian Maurer
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east patio, looking NE, photograph by Florian Maurer
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entrance, looking down the stairs to the underground garage, photograph by Florian Maurer
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looking over green roof and glass house to the NW, photograph by Florian Maurer
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