A House with a Slide
An interior residential precedent featuring a custom wooden slide built alongside a staircase, blending playful program with exposed historic brick walls.
- What we like about this project
- A full-scale wooden slide directly integrated into the main domestic stair corridor.
Materials
- exposed-brick
- timber
- plaster
- glass
Visual identifiers
- wooden-slide
- timber-staircase
- exposed-brick
- herringbone-floor
Style tags
- playful
- contemporary
- residential
Visual tags
- playful
- residential
- warm-interior
- adaptive-reuse
- custom-joinery
- Geometry
- Longitudinal perspective looking up a timber staircase flanked by a parallel slide on the left and exposed brick walls on both sides.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brick masonry walls with timber floor framing.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic scale; standard residential corridor width with custom stair and slide integration.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight entering from a rear glazed opening and overhead skylights, casting soft illumination down the hall.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, cheerful, and inventive domestic atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Residential interior connecting levels with exposed historic brickwork.
- Spatial experience
- A playful transition space where climbing stairs is paired with sliding down, framed by rustic masonry and warm wood.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating stair treads balanced against the clean diagonal sweep of the wooden slide.
- Style reading
- Playful contemporary residential interior
- Program
- Residential multi-level circulation
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- exposed-brick, timber, plaster, glass
- Visual identifiers
- wooden-slide, timber-staircase, exposed-brick, herringbone-floor
- Style tags
- playful, contemporary, residential
- Visual tags
- playful, residential, warm-interior, adaptive-reuse, custom-joinery
- Geometry
- Longitudinal perspective looking up a timber staircase flanked by a parallel slide on the left and exposed brick walls on both sides.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brick masonry walls with timber floor framing.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic scale; standard residential corridor width with custom stair and slide integration.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight entering from a rear glazed opening and overhead skylights, casting soft illumination down the hall.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, cheerful, and inventive domestic atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Residential interior connecting levels with exposed historic brickwork.
- Spatial experience
- A playful transition space where climbing stairs is paired with sliding down, framed by rustic masonry and warm wood.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating stair treads balanced against the clean diagonal sweep of the wooden slide.
- Style reading
- Playful contemporary residential interior
- Program
- Residential multi-level circulation
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior