Designed for an active couple in their seventies that will never retire, and their extended grown-up family, this house embraces living well while ageing in place. It subscribes to timeless ideals about making good architecture. It is responsive to sitting for placemaking while emphasizing light and views. It creates spatial richness within a modest program and budget. The structure is used as an organizer of shelter and space. The architecture combines materials that are climatically and culturally responsive. Consisting of the main house and an outbuilding containing a dwelling and a workshop, the project understands work, of many types, as an integral part of living.

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Interiors Designers: FBM Architecture | Interior Design

Location: East Chester, Canada
Lead Architect: Susan Fitzgerald

Design Team: Susan Fitzgerald, Matt Davis, Shawn Doyle, Alicia Gilmore, Kaitlyn Labrecque, Danny Goodz

Area: 2560.0 ft2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Julian Parkinson

Structural Engineering: Campbell Comeau Engineering Limited

Mechanical Engineering: CBCL Ltd.

Electrical Engineering: CBCL Ltd.

Landscape Architect: Vollick McKee Petersmann & Associates Ltd.

Interior Design: FBM Architecture ? Interior Design

Construction Manager: Brainard Fitzgerald for B D Stevens

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