Foxfire House Design 21, Residential Architect
Residential Architect creates Appalachian Style luxury design in Cashiers – Highlands area
Residential architect Rand Soellner designed this Appalachian styled house for upscale Cashiers - Highlands neighborhood. (C)Copyright 2003-2010 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Residential architect Rand Soellner designed this interesting developer home for the Foxfire neighborhood, not far from Wildcat Cliffs. The developers requested an arrangement similar to several popular plans that had proven themselves in the Cullasaja Club community, with numerous improvements, by residential architect Soellner.
Eyebrow roof vent details by residential architect Rand Soellner, along with uniquely Soellner-inspired timber frame grand front porch beamery. (C)Copyright 2003-2010 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Soellner uses an interesting mix of details from his various journeys to observe and inspect timeless architecture both abroad and throughout United States. For instance, the curved “eyebrow” roof vent details used by this residential architect were observed on several Yellowstone “parkitecture” buildings in Wyoming. From Soellner’s viewpoint, a residential architect needs to take cues from timeless homes and buildings that no one can really point to and say that somethign was from this era or that period and he constantly endeavors to extrapolate his layouts and details so that they have a feeling from perhaps a period, but nothing specific that dates them. Hence the term: timeless.
A residential architect is also a cottage architect.
Residential architect Soellner is also a cottage architect and this left side of this Foxfire home illustrates the cottage-like character of Soellner’s typical grandchild bunkrooms over garage for which he has become famous. “A residential architect really needs to work every square inch to make these types of house fulfill the functional as well as aesthetic requirements and dreams of the homeowner,” said Soellner. Soellner delights in using features that people can’t quite identify as coming from any particular era, but that somehow resonate in their psyche. Soellner calls this part of his “Timeless” style, which he really says is no particular style. Still, Soellner’s designs are undeniably his and bear his hallmark muscular timbers, kind of a Charles Atlas of Craftsman Style that is a boldness that sets this residential architect apart from his contemporaries.
Responsibilities of a residential architect.
Being a residential architect carries with it a responsibility to satisfy functional requirements on a level above and beyond the offerings of builders. Being home architects means that you are supposed to conceive solutions that are better than conventional offerings. At least, that is what residential architect Soellner believes. He constantly pushes the limits of incorporating the latest technologies into the aesthetics shells of timeless appearance. Soellner remembers a book by an author in the 1970s named Alvin Toffler, who created a popular book called Future Shock. In this book, the author said that High Tech means designers need to provide High Touch. By this, the author meant that the more modern life becomes, the more texture and warmth and familiarity and history humans psychologies require to assimilate the advancements comfortably. Soellner understands this and accommodates this into his Timeless designs as a leading residential designer.
Soellner is also a custom home architect and you can click on the link in this sentence to see an index of his custom designs if you might be interested in that.
Contact for residential architect:
Rand Soellner Architect
www.HomeArchitects.com
828-269-9046
