Here are some photos of the Saratoga House--just need some landscaping!
Outdoor dining room off the kitchen
View from the family room to the breakfast bar and kitchen beyond
The Big Island
The Big Island again.
The breakfast bar's single support--custom fabricated stainless steel.
The view from the front door, looking up the walnut/glass/steel staircase
For their efforts on the Anderson Residence, Model Remodel has won a Green Remodeling Excellence award from the Master Builders Association.
Congrats to Jason and his crew for a fantastic job!
The Mazama cabin is all but finished! After a few initial stays and much consideration, the owners have dubbed the Mazama cabin 'The Ranchero!' There are a few final details still outstanding, but the cabin is now open for summer enjoyment.
Looking toward the dining room and kitchen - clear fir doors, windows and trim. Paneled white aluminum ceilings, polished radiant heat concrete floors, integrated sound system, custom furniture, hot rolled steel structure and wall panels...
Rolled steel shelf at entry with Minerit accent panel.
Open shelving in kitchen makes finding things easy for guests.
Custom pantry adjacent to kitchen
Master bedroom with daybed tucks in against the aspen grove
Bunk room with custom beds and storage below
More than a car! More than a truck! The Ranchero!
Our Saratoga House is suddenly feeling much more put together--most of the cabinetry is in, the stone tile is completed throughout the interior, split face stone going up the arcade columns. Stucco and the metal roof are on the horizon.
The interior of the house is very open, very connected to the backyard. Not yet installed is the eating bar which will come out parallel with the kitchen island, and supported on a stainless steel tripod. The staircase is wrapped in more cabinets, with stainless and glass railings.
See more photos after the jump:
We'll be wrapping the arcade roof with standing seam metal all the way around, running the split face limestone up the columns, and matching up the interior stone tile with the exterior tile (same stone, but a change in texture for better footing outside). The drain in front of the Weiland doors is going to be very understated--a 1/2" slot between courses.
The island is 14' long, 4 1/2' wide--two butterflied slabs of 'Silver Wave' marble. As the focal point of the kitchen, and the center of family life/entertaining, we really took it over the top!
The cabinet wall is highlighted by a linear skylight.
CAST architecture has three projects featured in Taunton's new book on kitchen design. Thanks to Elizabeth and Clay, Bill and Natasha, and Ken and Marilyn for being great clients! Bon appetit!
The Saratoga residence is moving along-soon we'll have the exterior wrapped up, and the arcade complete! The interior walnut cabinetry and floating stair treads/glass rail should be installed soon!
The kitchen, in the foreground, is going to feature a 14' long double loaded island, packed with functionality. Tucked under the stairs, we'll have a nerve center for all the household computing and controls. There is a private, ornamental garden beyond the dining room's window wall.
Mark your calendars! The Andersons Residence, a 4 star Built Green home, will be open to the public for touring as part of Northwest Eco Building Guild Green Home Tour on April 27th.
The Anderson residence is a Built Green renovation, addition and transformation of an existing single family home. The plan opened, simplified and streamlined the existing first floor in addition to adding a new second story to provide much needed space for a growing family.
This past weekend was our first public presentation of the schematic design for the University Cooperative School. We are working with the school to develop an indoor active space as well as music studio in the basement, while taking the opportunity to improve the entry sequence and experience for the 3rd-5th grade classrooms.
Reconfiguring the entry with the new stairs and an eddy space for the kids cubby space helps bring light to the active space below, while a window wall separates the noisier activities of the cubbies and active spaces below from the classrooms. The new entry exposes the admin office to the entry, making it both more public, as well as increasing oversight at the entry.
The open stairs on the south side of the building will help bring light to the back side of the basement, while a translucent wall on the west side brings in light from the on grade entrance, with a new accessible ramp and stair entry from the south west corner.
The Music room is located in the below grade section to the East, taking advantage of the inherent acoustic dampening of the concrete foundation and lid, while allowing for a light well between the cubbies and south window wall.
A view from the new entry, with the cubby alcove, stairs down, and a pattern of translucent colored circular insets in the concrete slab create a playful musical pattern, alluding to the music studio below, while allowing light to be transferred downstairs.
A new stage with sliding white board, allows for visual separation between the upper and lower classrooms, while fostering performance as an integral component of the curriculum. A low bank of cabinets gives privacy between the bathrooms, and classroom, maintaining the openness of the space for public gatherings, and providing additional storage.
The active space, with new beams, eliminates the intermediate columns, increasing the flexibility of the space for larger scale activities. New rubberized flooring and gymnasium wall pads create a safe environment for physical activities.
The music room with dedicated storage for instruments, and acoustic isolation from the classrooms, allows for music to continue to play a central roll in the school, while minimizing the disruption to the classrooms.
The exterior finishes over at the Clubhouse are almost done... The cladding is a combination of fiber cement panels and a clear cedar rain screen. This is a photo taken from the street, the panels are installed with horizontal anodized aluminum panel breaks at 2' on center:
A master suite is clad in a clear cedar rainscreen, it cantilever's over an outdoor room below:
Closeup of the cedar rainscreen:
The ceilings and soffits will be high gloss white aluminum panels. We installed a plywood underlayment to simplify panel layout and minimize panel distortion.
All photos are courtesy of Phil Dietz / Lost River Construction.
This photo is looking down the entry veranda toward the front door:
Looking from the front door toward the sauna wing and entry veranda:
Completed plywood underlay in the great room:
First panels go up in the Master bedroom:
Master bedroom ceiling complete:
Detail of fasteners:
Recent rendering put together for an advertisement:
