Stewart Avenue Residence by Brillhart Architecture offers a template for a Miami house that blends sleek contemporary architecture, traditional local vernacular and design that responds to the s...
Stewart Avenue Residence by Brillhart Architecture offers a template for a Miami house that blends sleek contemporary architecture, traditional local vernacular and design that responds to the site’s flood riskThe idea of living in Miami brings to mind beaches, sun and avant-garde architecture; but climate change and rising sea levels form another aspect of life in this Floridian urban hub, one of which its residents are increasingly aware.
‘After [our client] went through Hurricane Irma in 2017, he knew it was time to build something new,’ the architects recall. ‘His original 1923 home – located on a canal just 900 ft from Biscayne Bay in a desirable South Coconut Grove neighbourhood – had sustained significant damage from hurricanes and tropical storms, beginning with Wilma in 2005, just months after he purchased the home. Each time, it took months to return to normal, getting the insurance straightened out and repairs completed.
As a result, the visitor is greeted at ground level by a dramatic experience of sculptural concrete and a play of light and shadow that combines architecture and nature – the latter, in the shape of the site and the surroundings’ rich, leafy vegetation and overall terrain. Indeed, working with the existing natural elements on site played a crucial role in the design development.
This blending of nature and architecture, old and new, born out of the need to protect and shelter, did not go unnoticed in the local community. ‘It just doesn’t look like anything else in Miami, and the details and materials and thoughtfulness of the design are at the level of the. Now that it is complete, I have someone knocking on my door at least one or two times a week to ask me if I would consider selling.
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