Hennessey Shadow House by Signum Architecture
Our clients for this project originally asked us to design a pool house for their existing 6,000-square-foot craftsman-style home.
Our clients for this project originally asked us to design a pool house for their existing 6,000-square-foot craftsman-style home.
The Nedd house was designed to sit in the saddle between two rocky outcrops and to sit lightly on the landscape. It was located to avoid any rock breaking. Our clients had no desire for a garden.
The reconstruction of a terrace house for the needs and comfortable urban living with the current standards for a family.
Set at the crest of a downsloped lot, the floor plan of this 6,000-square-foot house was largely determined by the site. The entry and the master suite are placed to capture the premium views, and the in-ground tiled swimming pool locks into the L-shape footprint.
The Wildlife residence is nestled into sloped banks of a year-around creek which leads directly to the beach at Point Dume, Malibu.
Bela Vista House is the result of the intersections between apparently divergent housing types: a patio house laid out in a square plan; and superimposed linear blocks inserted in the topography by carefully located retaining walls.
Two adjacent contemporary houses in a Victorian Toronto neighbourhood, designed by the same architect and for the same client, subtly respond to the local vernacular and to each other, while expressing their own unique characters.
A good design, respecting logic of location and orientation, can even be very simple. This light-footed ville proves that such honest architecture without bells or whistles, can nevertheless result in beautiful projects.
By taking cues and inspiration from the surrounding landscape, Studio Schicketanz, led by Mary Ann Schicketanz, designed a breathtaking, sustainable home that literally blends into the hillside for a Silicon Valley-based family