Beach Drive Residence designed for a family residence, creates a modern interior beach house design, includes three bedrooms, three bathrooms, open living and reading spaces, and a family room “pavilion” courtyard shared with the southern neighbor centers the entry side of the house. This is a new beach house by Rhodes Architecture + Light designed for a family of four on Puget Sound waterfront in West Seattle features an open, carefully day lit interior in a very compact shell. The openness to the beach and salt water guided the process of the design and selection of materials and finishes. A concern for the permanence and maintenance of the house led to a careful selection of ground-face concrete block, natural concrete floors, and metal windows and door systems and to the raising of the house on a solid base formed of stepping concrete terraces. The relaxed, playful environs led to experimentation with forms, fixtures, and materials.
