Hazelmere Acreage for sale: (Listed 2011-09-23)

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• Property Value$3,900,000
• Property Address1122 184 Street, South Surrey, British Columbia, V3S 9R9, Canada
• TypeAcreage
• Est. Property Tax$8409

• Lot Frontage775 ft
• Lot Size Area29.48 acres

Hazelmere Address

1122 184 Street, South Surrey, British Columbia, V3S 9R9, Canada

Description

Omer Arbel Office (www.omerarbel.com) is one of North America's most innovative young design practices. The studio is active within the traditionally defined fields of architecture, industrial design, materials research and high craft, but is most comfortable in the ambiguous zones of overlap between these fields. The practice is led by Omer Arbel and has grown to include a group of specialists and generalists form diverse backgrounds. Arbel is also the creative director of maverick design and manufacturing house bocci (www.bocci.ca), which has in recent years carved out a niche for itself within the highly competitive and aesthetically exacting contemporary design landscape. Omer Arbel trained in the late nineties as an architect. He apprenticed under Enric Miralles and John and Patricia Patkau, among others. Accolades include, among others, several Yellow Pencil, Red Dot, I.D. International design review, and iF awards, and the commission to design the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic medals (with Corrine Hunt). The practice has been widely exhibited and published, and pieces by Arbel form part of important private and institutional collections.

Arbel designed a home on a 40 acre hay farm in the Hazelmere Valley which he calls his "23.2" project. This estately 30 acre listing is directly adjoining the site of Arbel's 23.2 house and enjoys the similar physical characteristics of beauty, expansiveness, light, view and privacy. Omer Arbel and his team have been experimenting with design concepts for a new house on this lot which expand on the ideas and successes of the 23.2 house design, in terms of the connection between the house and site, sculptural experimentation with materials, and quality of domestic space.

23.2 description: 23.2 is a house for a family, built on a large rural acreage. There is a gentle slope from east to west and two masses of forests defining two “outdoor rooms” each with its own distinct ecology and conditions of light; the house is situated at the point of maximum tension in between these two environments, and as such acts at once to define the two as distinct, and also to offer a focused transition between them. The design of the house itself began, as a point of departure, with a depository of one hundred year old Douglas Fir beams reclaimed from a series of demolished warehouses. The beams were of different lengths and cross sectional dimensions, and had astonishing proportions—some as long as 20 meters, some as deep as 90 cm. It was agreed that the beams were sacred artifacts in their current state and that they would not manipulate or finished in any way. Because the beams were of different lengths and sizes, the triangular geometry of the plan was developed to accommodate the tremendous variety in dimension, while still allowing the possibility of narrating legible domestic spaces. Reclaimed beams were used to assemble triangular frames; these were folded to create a roof fabric which would act as a secondary artificial landscape, draped over the gentle slope of the site. The creases in this fabric are inflected to create implicit and explicit relationships between indoor and outdoor space, such that every interior room had a corresponding exterior room. In order to maximize ambiguity between interior and exterior space, of one significant corner of each room was obliterated, by pulling the structure back from the corner itself (using bent steel columns in some cases), and introducing an accordion door system, such that the entire façade on both sides could retract and completely disappear. The 23.2 House has been widely published, critically acclaimed and was shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in 2010. Following are some relevant links:


http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/interactive-floor-plan-house-232-canada/5065

http://www.dwell.com/slideshows/a-fresh-angle.html

http://www.contemporist.com/2011/01/16/the-23-2-house-by-omer-arbel/

http://www.dezeen.com/2011/03/02/23-2-by-omer-arbel-2/

http://www.wallpaper.com/video/interiors/series-19-by-omer-arbel-for-bocci/897223698001

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663854/wanted-omer-arbels-28-chandeliers-striking-experiments-in-glass-blowing-video

http://www.dezeenscreen.com/2011/04/20/gene-cafe-by-gwenael-lewis-for-bocci

http://www.dezeenscreen.com/2011/04/28/bocci-28-series-chandelier-at-spazio-rosanna-orlandi/

http://www.wallpaper.com/video/interiors/bocci-at-noho-design-week-during-the-ICFF-new-york/968403031001

http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/2010/kk129249117199365075.htm

http://www.dwell.com/articles/omer-arbel-conversation.html

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/9121/omer-arbel-olympic-medal-design-process.html

http://www.domusweb.it/en/photo-essays/series-19-by-omer-arbel-for-bocci/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omer_Arbel

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