Hasta La Ideas

Architecture firm Bryanoji Design Studio has wrapped aluminium shingles around this angular house in a Massachusetts woodland.

Mill-finished aluminium shingles cover the exterior and roof to pick up on the hues and patterns of its surroundings in Princeton, Massachusetts.

“The house becomes one with the landscape, reflecting continuous gradation of surrounding colours, adding a sophisticated poetry to a simple life in the woods,” Bryanoji Design Studio said.

The cladding is made from 90 per cent recycled material and is combined with insulation and Energy Recovering Ventilation (ERV) to help reduce the house’s energy use, according to the firm.

Called Project Merri, the property is formed by two conjoining gabled volumes. One portion houses the social spaces in a large open room, while the other side is partitioned into bedrooms and bathrooms.

Inside, the house is decorated with simple materials such as plywood and oriented strand board cover the floors, walls, ceilings and rafters.

“This rather stoic approach, in return, expanded client’s freedom for space occupancy, an essential criterion for every single family home,” the studio added.

Repurposed items form decorative elements and furniture throughout the house.

In the kitchen, the cabinets are constructed using plywood sheets from old construction scaffolding. Recycled bleacher seats have been converted into light fixtures that span across the length of the open kitchen.

On the exterior, a series of 100-year-old marble steps were recycled from the State Capitol building of Rhode Island and refurbished materials taken from a local recycling centre form a swing bed on the porch.

Other details that furnish the house are a wooden ladder attached to a sliding track that provides access to a loft area inside one of the peaks, black and white mural of men working and wood stove with a tall black chimney pipe.

Bryanoji Design Studio is led by design director Takako Oji and has its office in Princeton, Massachusetts.

Other houses designed for rural Massachusetts sites are an elongated wood volume stretched over a hillside by O’Neill Rose Architects and a small cabin in a forest with a metal roof envisioned by WOJR.

Photography is by Ed Wonsek and Takako Oji.

The post Aluminium shingles encase faceted Massachusetts house by Bryanoji Design Studio appeared first on Dezeen.