US studio Olson Kundig Architects has utilised quite a lot of wood storm shutters and deep roof overhangs for a Hawaiian vacation dwelling known as Hale Napo’o.

Hale Napo’o, which interprets to Sundown Home, is situated on the northern coast of Kauai, an island within the Hawaiian archipelago.

The shoppers desired a household retreat that opened as much as the panorama and ushered in breezes from Hanalei Bay.

“The result’s a practical island retreat that caters to the household’s informal barefoot life-style, whereas offering a way of scalability to accommodate each massive and intimate gatherings,” mentioned Seattle-based Olson Kundig Architects.

The 2-storey dwelling consists of rectilinear volumes organized in a U-shape round a central courtyard.

Topping the house are overhanging roofs lined with corrugated copper.

The roof design is supposed to pay homage to a method of hipped roof popularised by native architect CW “Pop” Dickey within the Twenties and Nineteen Thirties.

The facades encompass glass and horizontal cedar siding.

The house is wrapped in a collection of operable wood screens which can be opened and closed in several methods. Some carry up and down, some pivot, and a few slide backward and forward.

The screens present storm safety and safety. In addition they permit breezes to circulate into the home, negating the necessity for mechanical air con.

“The house is unconditioned, counting on passive air flow from the seashore winds by means of a collection of operable shutter screens that wrap many of the constructing facade,” the agency mentioned.

The house is entered by means of a shutter-style gate, which ends up in an open-air hall lined with tall screens that pivot open and closed.

The bottom stage holds an open-plan kitchen, eating space and lounge. Simply off the cooking and eating area is a lanai with views of the water and three distinguished mountain peaks – Hihimanu, Namolokama and Mamalahoa.

The communal space is wrapped in screens that carry upward. Wooden floors extends from the dwelling area to the terrace, serving to diminish the excellence between inside and outside.

Additionally discovered on the bottom stage are a storage, library and visitor bed room suite. The latter two areas have sliding screens that allow them to be open to the courtyard.

The higher stage encompasses the primary bed room suite, a bunk room and a den. A cantilevering terrace shades the ground-level lanai.

Total, Hale Napo’o offers a relaxed ambiance and “blurs the strains between indoor and outside dwelling”, the staff mentioned.

Different Hawaiian houses by Olson Kundig embody Hale Lana, a residence composed of 5 pavilions which can be lifted barely above the bottom. The constructing options glass partitions, open walkways and corrugated metallic roofing.

The images is by Aaron Leitz.