F2a Creates The Private Art Gallery Reflecting The Beauty of Nature

F2a Creates Private Art Gallery

f2a architecture designed and built this small addition to a house designed and built-in 2003 by Florian as his personal home.

The original architecture explored a garden-court concept: three detached structures around a generous enclosed garden inspired by Latin-American courtyards. the courtyard controls privacy and views, in contrast to the typical suburban house, at the mercy of its neighbors

F2a Creates Private Art Gallery
F2a Creates Private Art Gallery

In 2018, the new owners of the house approached Florian to design a small addition – a multi-purpose space and private art gallery. But the architect’s design was never intended to be expanded; with the septic field in the center of the courtyard and the main house at the edge of a rocky slope overlooking Okanagan lake, no acceptable placement was evident.

F2a Creates Private Art Gallery

The slope to the west allowed a low profile addition to being placed just low enough to maintain lake views across its roof from the main house. Slim steel posts support the gallery structure. Clad in stainless steel and reflecting sky and forest, it seems to float above the bedrock, fitting its grassland context gently. The disappearing gallery contrasts massive neighboring houses sitting on completely remodeled terrain.

F2a Creates Private Art Gallery

The owners would have gladly accepted another small free-standing structure to match the house’s original concept, but local zoning would not allow additional structures, so the gallery had to be connected to the original house by a stairway. The stair hall glazing slotted into bedrock and stainless-clad gallery roof contrast the original house’s simple thresholds and exterior woodwork. The stair bridges from the living house to the gallery, an abstract space from which to observe the original architecture now exhibited alongside the owner’s collection of paintings and sculptures.

F2a Creates Private Art Gallery

INFORMATION

Project Name: Malinka Gallery

Architecture Firm: f2a architecture

Firm Location: Penticton/ Nelson, British Columbia

Completion Year: 2020

Gross Built Area: 55m2

Project location: Narmata, BC

Lead Architects: Florian Maurer, Austin Hawkins

Photo credits: Katie Huisman, Austin Hawkins, Florian Maurer

Photographer’s website: katiehuisman.com

Design Team:  eric lajoie, micheal wetherill, caspar viereckel,

Clients: Frank + Liz Malinka

Contractor: f2a architecture

Engineering: Fast + Epp Structural Engineers

Collaborators: Geoff Orr, Orr Custom Glazing

Visuals with courtesy of f2a architecture

www.f2a.ca

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