YINJISPACE use media professional’s unique perspective,try to explore the essence of life behind the design works.
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YINJISPACE use media professional’s unique perspective,try to explore the essence of life behind the design works.
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The approximately 390-square-foot studio expansion in Sonoma, California, is inspired by the rich Mourning Dove population in the area. Schwartz and Architecture's appreciation of the nature of mourning pigeons and their historical symbolism of peace and tranquility became a central theme of the project - a concept that is particularly profound in the context of the global pandemic.
A traditional country ‘dovecote’ houses pigeons or doves, sometimes freestanding but often built into the ends of houses or barns. The architect researched the most advantageous height, orientation, proportion, and ventilation to encourage nesting doves –a process that informed both the shape of the exterior and interior space.
Although hidden from the interior, twelve nesting boxes built into the angled exterior façade, encourage the bird’s co-habitation of the space as in traditional dovecote structures. A lower bird-watching window focuses on the doves as they ground-feed and serves as convenient viewing spot for the owner’s two Spinone Italianibird-dogs.
The ceiling is a series of slightly triangular planes in an off-white plaster that subtly captures the shifts in natural light. An aluminum art panel floats in front of an angled wall to intensify the depth of the abstract space. English Sycamore cabinetry with a slight translucent whitewash finish matches the plaster. A dark natural cork floor tile grounds the space.
A custom sheer curtain divides the new space from the old with an image of a murmuration of swallows flocking. The photographer Richard Barnes supplied an image from his Murmur series of these flocks, fromwhich we made the Murmuration Drape.
We divided the image into five unique panels and printed them on sheer silk. We then reassembled the image, thus creating a fluttering threshold to, and backdrop for, the dovecote. The Pull-Me-Closer (aka Push-Me-Away) handles are an ode to Alvar Aalto’s modern but inviting approachto interiors.
Schwartz and Architecture considered the impact on the entire ecosystem and energy consumption from the beginning of the design, retaining the existing landscape while taking advantage of natural resources such as natural light and rain, using sustainable materials such as cork flooring, radiant heating and solar panels.
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