A tiny late-Victorian dwelling in Portland, Oregon, has been transformed into a present day house with a monochrome red steel and wood exterior (+ slideshow).
The two-storey, 2,200-square-foot (204 square metres) property retains the fundamental form of its original layout, but its general kind has been simplified.
Waechter Architecture’s aim for the renovation was to develop a “modern day sculpture,” in accordance to the firm.
The red colour, which the architects chose with the consumer, “provides the home a robust character and identity,” Ben Waechter, head of Waechter Architecture, informed Dezeen.
They picked the colour based on what was available commercially in sheet metal. The architects then had a local company make the standing seam roof and gutters out of the colour-coated metal and painted the wood siding to match.
The quantity of windows has been lowered and the form has been altered from double-hung rectangular windows to single-light squares. A lot of of the windows had been recessed, some by nearly two feet.
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The front facade of the residence was also flattened with two slanted walls on the ground floor filled in to develop a single plane.
The design preserves the “memory of the authentic balanced with freshness and vitality of the new,” said Waechter.
Within, a equivalent process of simplification opened up the floor ideas, so each and every degree has a single massive area with smaller support spaces arrayed around it.
On the ground floor, the residing, kitchen, and dining places are positioned in the main space. The walls are lined with all-white floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. “The project could also be called Property for a Guide Lover,” said Waechter.
The white shelves and ceiling contrast with the refinished fir floors and the colourful spines of the books.
A small bedroom, a bathroom, and a staircase are all arranged all around the major space.
The upper floor contains a bedroom and sitting area, separated by sliding doors. Massive storage closets and a 2nd bathroom fill the remaining space.
Waechter has created other monochrome homes in Portland, which includes an all-white home inspired by the legs and top of a dining table, and a house with a black exterior set on a steeply sloping website.
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Ground floor prepare – click for greater picture 
Very first floor prepare – click for larger image 
