Puente House / LLAMA Architecture and Urban Design
The Puente house is designed and will be built as a piece of furniture, out of cedar, a local material widely used for structural properties and rot resistance.
The Puente house is designed and will be built as a piece of furniture, out of cedar, a local material widely used for structural properties and rot resistance.
A wide lot backing onto Ancaster Creek is the site for a intergenerational home for a family and their elderly parents. The house was conceived as two distinct residences, each formed into a linear bar containing the full program of a home.
Located on the Niagara Escarpment, this weekend home for a family of six transcends ordinary domestic programming to create a place of spiritual resonance. Through its siting, tectonics and materiality, it balances intimacy and expansiveness, light and dark, land and sky — orienting and heightening one’s experience of the surrounding environment.