Leckie studio has accomplished Digicam Home within the mountains of British Columbia with dramatic home windows and skylights that are supposed to body the encompassing panorama like a digicam lens.
The one-storey home is clad in darkish timber boards, which the studio stated helps it mix into its lush forest setting.
The constructing’s steep roofline is strategically oriented for skylights that body completely different views of the encompassing mountains.
The distant construction is positioned within the Pemberton Valley, roughly three hours away from Vancouver. The realm is close to Whistler, a preferred ski resort within the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Leckie Studio, an structure and inside studio based mostly in Vancouver, was commissioned by a younger household to create a secondary residence away from the town.
“This system referred to as for 2 bedrooms and a flex room, with the understanding that the household will likely be spending lengthy intervals of time dwelling on the home through the summer season months,” Leckie Studio defined.
“The views by way of the clerestories alternate between being particular (Owl Ridge) and summary (treetops/sky),” Leckie Studio defined.
“The inside areas have been sculpted with sloping ceilings to channel each gentle and think about traces.”
The house is separated into private and non-private rooms by a protracted, central hall.
“This system is organized linearly alongside the autumn line of the slope throughout two ranges, with non-public areas located in opposition to the densely forested excessive facet of the slope and public areas operating parallel under,” stated Leckie Studio.
The communal areas, together with the kitchen and eating room, are accessed through a brief flight of steps. A monolithic concrete fire separates these areas from the lounge.
On the finish of the kitchen, full-height sliding glass doorways open onto a terrace and swimming pool.
Three bedrooms are laid out alongside the hall within the elevated a part of the house. Along with the first suite and two kids’s bedrooms, there’s a flex area that may accommodate houseguests.
Leckie Studio selected a brilliant palette for the interiors, with polished concrete flooring taking part in up the ample pure gentle coming in from the house’s skylights and clerestory home windows.
The identical materials is present in different accents such because the textured fire and a protracted bench within the kitchen. This contrasts with the darker exterior materials.
“The vast majority of the mission is clad in a flat sawn and brushed Western Purple Cedar completed with a darkish stain,” stated Leckie Studio.
“The darkish tone of the cladding permits the structure to recede into the panorama.”
Leckie studio was based by Michael Leckie in 2015. It has accomplished a number of residential initiatives in Vancouver and the encompassing areas, together with a courtyard home that was clad in pale wooden siding, and a penthouse house in BIG’s Vancouver skyscraper.
The pictures is by Ema Peter.
