VH R-10 gHouse - Darren Petrucci

From an aesthetic standpoint Darren Petrucci's gHouse is quite similar to the direction we are currently heading with our design. From the start we were pretty interested in using some sort of vertical or horizontal slatted timber as a cladding for the 1st floor residential apartment, as well as using unpolished concrete for the ground floor dentistry with additional wood in order to complement and soften it somewhat. gHouse also has a few features, such as the the sliding rain shutters, which we feel we could adopt and develop further in order to suit our design and brief. The use of a clean, straight, modular look is also an aesthetic we recently decided to adopt. Our design however will utilize a few very important focal points which will be used to contrast this aesthetic.

VH R-10 gHouse - Architectural Record article

Wooden rain screens slide open (above & below)