LYNCB - Lynn Lagoon House Cocoa Beach
BROSROMANBRAUN · Cocoa Beach, FL
Overview
A single-family home designed as a container for the client's art collection while opening the house up to the light & views of the Banana River lagoon beyond. The design is an abstraction of both traditional and technological influences of the Brevard County, Florida region. The nature of this work is to find that language that defines meaning to our clients.
The site is located on a brackish water lagoon of the Banana River in Cocoa Beach, Florida. The program is a single- family home for a retiring couple who wanted to have a place to display and enjoy their personal art collection. The house is all one story to accommodate any accessibility issues of the future. The form of the house is created by both the program elements as objects in the landscape and positioned in a way to open up the entire house to light and views of the lagoon beyond. The design is influenced by local and regional histories mixed with everyday objects, colors, beauty, and bounty of the Banana River lagoon area. The house is informed by the mid-century & modern edginess of Brevard County’s technological development with a dash of traditional Floridian Architecture for good measure. The outcome emerges that is at the same time contextual and meaningful, for posterity representing its benefactor at this time and place. For us, the specific nature of this architecture is what we are searching for with our work, this leads to a quote which we have adopted as our office mantra. “We do not ask to be eternal beings. we only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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