curtain wall, and how often do you get to do that? Tom: Does this house say that in an established community a person has a right to choose the way they want to live? Andrew: I think that’s what it says to the client. It says more complex things to me such as, ‘I’m not a dyed in the wool, kinda libertarian Albertan oil guy’. I do believe that as long as you’re within certain guidelines, you’re not blocking somebody’s sun, you’re not being a bad neighbour, I think that you are allowed to create the projects that you want. This project talks about a new material response to the suburban condition as it becomes the urban condition. It talks about the fact that you can do this from materials which aren’t particularly indigenous, and when I say indigenous I mean they don’t exist on that street. The City of Calgary looks at that street, they look at the five neighbours to the left, they look at the two neighbours to the right and they ask,‘how does it respond to that?’ This house says that there is also a global response. Some people look at it and say it’s very strange; Paul and I, and Dustin Cousins who worked on it a little
bit, look at it and say it’s well within a series of formal strategies that are happening in northern Europe and elsewhere. What we are trying to say, as is John Brown, as is Down + Livesay, is that the Calgary context can be informed by something other than local consideration.
e z house, Calgary, Alberta
AKA andrewkingstudio principal
Andrew King
project partner
Paul Stady
team
Craig Kolstad, Dustin Couzins, Scott Pavan with Dale Taylor Architect (detail support)
engineer Saretsky Quinn Engineering contractor
Heritage Crafted Homes
client
Steve Sakreski and Alourdes Eserve
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