Miami-based Brillhart Structure consulted on the design of a pavilion-like island residence within the Bahamas with native architects Garth and Darren Sawyer.
Composed of six pavilions overlooking Pink Sands Seaside on Harbour Island, the home was accomplished in 2022 with Brillhart appearing because the design guide and Darren Sawyer serving because the challenge architect and Garth Sawyer because the architect of file.
The 6,700-square foot (620-square metre) residence combines vernacular references with components of tropical modernism on a sloping web site that includes greater than 70 mature palm bushes.
Organized on the location’s highest level, every room is held inside its personal construction, every responding in its personal strategy to the island’s assorted local weather.
“Every house presents distinct experiential qualities formed by the rapid atmosphere surrounding it,” stated princiap Melissa Brillhart, citing orientations, views, landscapes, micro-climates, mild and the breeze.
All circulation takes place on outdoors walkways or bridges, offering ample views of the ocean.
“The inseverable architectural expertise of residing each inside and outside always is really the focus of and central design concept behind this challenge,” the staff informed Dezeen.
The vernacular gabled pavilions are clad in western crimson cedar shingles and have uncovered rafters and pavilions like close by cottages, however use structurally insulated panels and tongue-and-groove cypress decking for local weather management and hurricane-rated power.
The stucco pavilions with copper detailing are organized round a courtyard – a tropical brush backyard with a pool and lounge space – to guard it from the robust offshore winds.
Generally known as the Ocean Room, the beach-facing pavilion presents panoramic views of the ocean via 16 sand-colored operable shutters that seize the breeze and supply shelter from the rain.
The kitchen and eating space are in a coated open-air pavilion, whereas separate buildings comprise en suite bedrooms, a front room, media room and indoor kitchen and eating room.
The rooms function vaulted ceilings starting from 15 toes to 26 toes (4.5 metres to 4.9 metres) in top and sliding doorways and operable home windows, bringing pure mild into every house and displaying the encircling panorama.
The interiors are outlined by pure supplies and an earth-toned palette with white partitions, mild wooden flooring, cherry millwork and regionally made, white concrete counter tops.
“The whole challenge is a testomony to the craft and resourcefulness of the native builder,” Brillhart stated.
On the jap facet, a picket walkway leads down the hill to the seaside, and on the western facet, the jungle panorama is extra prevalent.
“Given the lengthy and slender nature of the lot, a separate two-bedroom visitor cottage was situated on the decrease a part of the location, designed to soak up the encircling lush and tropical vegetation,” the staff stated.
Based in Florida in 2007, Brillhart Structure is run by Jacob and Melissa Brillhart whose work ranges from residential and business tasks to design-build tasks, exhibitions, and analysis.
Additionally on Harbor Island, Chad Oppenheim constructed himself a secluded seaside getaway on a sandy dune in 2017.
The images is by Brillhart Structure and Stephen Goettlicher.
Challenge credit:
Builder: Higgs Building
Design guide: Brillhart Structure
Native architect of file: Garth Sawyer, Darren Sawyer (Challenge architect)
Panorama guide: Nielsen Panorama Architects, Tyler Nielsen
