Archinect - News2024-05-21T10:45:15-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150404262/omer-arbel-balances-nature-and-form-in-this-award-winning-canadian-pacific-northwest-house
Omer Arbel balances nature and form in this award-winning Canadian Pacific Northwest house Josh Niland2023-12-01T18:42:00-05:00>2024-05-20T08:46:09-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f3/f3ecd655f8a6b139206ab4486b0f21b0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Vancouver-based <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/40637611/omer-arbel-office-oao" target="_blank">Omer Arbel Office</a> (OAO) has completed work on their award-winning project <em>75.9</em>, a new construction of a private home located adjacent to a hayfield in rural British Columbia. </p>
<p>The design scheme won in the 'Future Project House' category at the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/bustler/7598/world-architecture-festival-2019-day-two-winners-announced" target="_blank">2019 World Architecture Festival</a>. </p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3e/3eca703a9bc15b8290a1970c3981fcc7.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3e/3eca703a9bc15b8290a1970c3981fcc7.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy Omer Arbel Office (OAO)</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/17/17d5e401996f9804abd8acd8c0043481.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/17/17d5e401996f9804abd8acd8c0043481.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy Omer Arbel Office (OAO)</figcaption></figure><p>The complex was completed this year at an undisclosed cost and features a monumental column resembling a lily pad, produced via a proprietary concrete pouring method. A demonstration column had to be constructed on the site in order to get the clients' final approval. The result is an aesthetically pleasing four-volume arrangement recovered by the landscape that blends process and material into a singular modern and bucolic harmony. </p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f9/f982c64f2264cfac7466e47eb56b9677.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f9/f982c64f2264cfac7466e47eb56b9677.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy Omer Arbel Office (OAO)</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/fd/fd550251fd9fc5b79f3f3f0e593aea39.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/fd/fd550251fd9fc5b79f3f3f0e593aea39.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy Omer Arbel Office (OAO)</figcaption></figure><p>“For 15 years, we’ve developed a method of working with materials at the scale of an object,” Arbel says of his...</p>