John Brown is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
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An Intersection of New and Old
Exterior View
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Interior Staircase
Interior Hall
Office Space
Bathroom
View from Second Floor
Living Room
Rear Patio Space
Side Elevation
Level 2 Floor Plan
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An addition to an original weatherboard house in an inner city area.
The original house maintains it's integrity as a larger worker's
cottage with narrow weatherboards and functional details. The new
addition is a reinterpretation of the two storey cottage replacing the
previous utilities 'lean to' with a new form which echoes the existing.
This new space incorporates a living area with a children's loft
above, study nook, kitchen and dining area. The living area and loft
are connected by a void which forms the termination of the circulation
spine extending from the exisiting corridor through to the new spaces.
The addition is clad in a wide vertical steel "weatherboard" more
often used on commercial buildings but here viewed as an appropriate
response to both historical and visual contexts.
Design decisions were driven by references to existing fabric,
orientation, axis of movement and, importantly, the intersection of
new and old forms.
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We
believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create Good, Close, Light places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
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is an international movement devoted to bringing good design into real life. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home provides design focused information to empower each of us to take more control of our homes and improve the quality of where and how we live.
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