![]() It is a house intended to live up to the character of the ruin of the White House and engage and heighten the experience of living in an incredible place. ![]() Children bash their toys into the walls, and Highland cattle peer at their reflections in frameless glass walls. A house that works for its ownersĭespite its high design ambitions, it remains a hard-wearing family farmhouse. These two outdoor spaces are connected by central living areas, locating the heart of the house in the heart of the site. Stairs wrap around this snug space up to a book-lined landing where a long window seat looks out over the big sheltering west wall and down to Alex's boat mooring.īig open rooms are contrasted with smaller snugs, and nooks and crannies for an individual retreat, offering both expansive and intimate moments. Calming and snug spacesĪ wing of new rooms to the west provides four further bedrooms, utility spaces, and a panelled snug space, separated from the main living room by a wall of shelves. ![]() Slate paving stretches from the living room inside out to a south-facing courtyard on one side and a seaward-facing terrace on the other. The main hallway in the ruin connects to a living-dining room with glazed walls and a sedum-covered roof, the sedum echoing the natural flora on the site. The building is heated through a heat exchanger powered by a wind turbine, meaning that on-aggregate power will be exported. The new stone walls include recycled rubble from the site, and imported aggregate and masonry were kept to a minimum to reduce transportation and environmental costs. Environmental considerationsĪn H-shaped plan provides pockets of external shelter on the very exposed site. The new structures shelter between the new thick dry stone enclosure walls that pick up on and extend an original lattice of enclosure walls around the house. To the rear of the original building, new living and bedroom spaces stretch out generously into the landscape with expanses of glazing to suck in the stunning landscape and sea views. A kitchen and master bedroom occupy the remainder of the original building with a tooth-like stack of stores, larder, WC, shower room and study at its core, all connected with a glass and steel stair. The architectural drawing example "White House West Wing - 1st floor" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Floor Plans solution from the Building Plans area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.A three-storey high entrance hall and stairway was created in the main ruin, with half of it left as a roofless courtyard, following stabilisation and consolidation of the walls. The Vice-President has an office in the building, but his primary office is next door in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building." The West Wing's three floors contain offices for the White House Chief of Staff, the Counselor to the President, the Senior Advisor to the President, the White House Press Secretary, and their support staffs. The West Wing contains the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room, the Situation Room, and the Roosevelt Room. "The West Wing of the White House, also known as the Executive Office Building, houses the offices of the President of the United States. Note that, depending on the administration, some positions (V.P., Chief of Staff, etc.) may be located in different offices than are shown here." First Floor The master bedroom has zip & link bed, ensuite shower room. "A floorplan of the first floor of the West Wing of the White House. This property has a glass elevator to the first floor. This architectural drawing sample was designed on the base of the Wikimedia Commons file: White House West Wing - 1st Floor.png.
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