Robert M. Cain, Architect

Home Improvement Professionals , Architects & Building Designers , Accessory Dwelling Units , Home Remodeling , Home Additions , Universal Design , Basement Remodeling
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Robert M. Cain, Architect
11 Reviews

Briar Creek Farm

Country: United States
The three linked gabled shotguns are terminated on the west with open and screened porches offering wraparound views of the lake and allee.
Briar Creek Farm
An evening view
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Evening looking toward the Kitchen
Briar Creek Farm
The beautiful allee of live oaks and slash pines establishes the north to south axial sequence of entry, connector, living room and exterior view.
Briar Creek Farm
This stunning eastern view corridor (shot here at dawn from the side of Kitchen), with dove fields in the far background and young long leaf pines to each side, is the organizing axis for the central structure of the house.
Briar Creek Farm
A short stroll through live oaks leads to a small pier employing salvaged steel structural elements.
Briar Creek Farm
The connectors linking the shotguns are fully glazed and emphasize views to the dove fields and lake.
Briar Creek Farm
A free-standing hutch demises the kitchen from the living and dining areas.
Briar Creek Farm
View down connector from children’s and utility wing.
Briar Creek Farm
The magnificent salvaged heart pine cantilevered dining room table custom designed by RMCA
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Kitchen porch detail
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Boys bedroom and loft study
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The office desk is constructed of salvaged old growth heart pine and steel tubes. The entire desk is cantilevered from two vertical steel tubes continuous and anchored to a concrete pad in the crawl space below.
Briar Creek Farm
A master plan and new residence for a family of five on a site of several hundred acres situated in the South Carolina coastal plain.
Briar Creek Farm
Stainless steel tensioning cables stabilize each end of the dining room cantilvers
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A horizontal steel tube supports cantilevered file and document drawers
Briar Creek Farm
Late afternoon on the kitchen porch
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west facing porch
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A freestanding tub (with laminar flow faucet mounted in the ceiling) looks out into native plant landscaping
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The transparent Kitchen hutch, built of salvaged old growth heart pine, while demising the Kitchen and Dining, is transparent enough to permit visual connection of the spaces.
Briar Creek Farm
A glass bridge connects the Master Bed Room/Home Office/Entry shotgun to the Kitchen/Dining/Living Room Shotgun
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Low windows on each side of the bed allow views of the pine and live oak allee, lake and hardwood landscape.
Briar Creek Farm
A walk trough the farm is a space-time sequence from house to open fields to hardwood copses to pines planted for cultivation to lowland creek drainages thick with blackberry vines.
Briar Creek Farm