Native design studio McLeod Bovell has accomplished a seaside house with a dramatic cantilever and a number of lightwells in West Vancouver, British Columbia.
Vancouver-based McLeod Bovell Trendy Homes designed the ten,940-square foot (1,016-square metre) Liminal Home in 2022.
“The ‘liminal’ is a transformational state between the place one factor begins and one other ends; the place the place one thing meets, mixes, and merges,” the workforce informed Dezeen.
“Liminal Home straddles an identical threshold between West Vancouver’s pure stony seashore and its suburban residential neighbourhood.”
The steep website overlooks the Pacific Ocean, so the workforce used the home’s organisation to choreograph motion towards the shoreline.
Organised as a journey fairly than round a singular point of interest, the areas cross between inside courtyards.
Entered from an autocourt on the hillside, the primary degree includes a kitchen, eating and dwelling area with a floating hearth.
A central architectural stair and planted courtyard backyard separate the general public areas from the storage.
In the meantime, a wall of floor-to-ceiling glazing opens the household areas to a coated terrace and pool with a waterfall edge that disappears into the ocean.
The basement degree holds service and leisure areas with extra automobile storage, an workplace, lounge area, utility room and a visitor suite.
A lightwell brings daylight deep into the partially underground degree. On the south facet of the plan, a coated terrace walks out to a spa and decrease backyard beneath the pool.
The highest flooring cantilevers over the primary degree with an exterior terraced backyard that wraps across the plan.
The glazed main suite appears out to the ocean with a “false beachfront” balcony, whereas three visitor suites are lined alongside the inside of the plan and open to the terrace. A big opening within the terrace types one other lightwell to the autocourt beneath.
“Courtyards, cantilevered volumes, and the extension of flooring space over exterior area dismantles boundaries between the home and the pure setting,” the workforce stated.
“This technique of blending and merging, the place mild is mirrored and landscapes are invited in the direction of the inside of the house, collapses regular readings of inside area.”
Chosen for his or her sturdiness in harsh climates, board-formed concrete, black-stained Accoya wooden and coated aluminium plate make up the outside.
The one-inch-thick Accoya boards are biodegradable, recyclable and carbon-neutral over their lifecycle.
“Conceptually, the home is fortress-like in kind and performance – a tough shell that opens strategically to its environment,” the workforce stated.
The glazed surfaces – with high-quality, thermally insulated glass and a Low-E coating to scale back warmth loss – function the “smooth counterpart to the exoskeleton,” set into hid frames.
On the inside, giant format slabs of non-VOC Lapitec sintered stone cowl the flooring whereas European oak millwork, panelling and stair treads heat the area.
“We discovered that the reflective ‘reverberation’ created by the deep glazed courtyards animate all of the areas in the home in stunning methods,” the workforce stated.
“Sudden partial fragments of water-view or inner planted landscapes coexist within the inside and exterior areas alongside furnishings, and inside finishes in lively ways in which change repeatedly in the course of the day with fluctuating lighting and sky situations.”
That includes an identical cantilevered response to a sloped website, McLeod Bovell accomplished the Container Home in West Vancouver in 2018 and clad it in customized gray cement-composite panels.
The images is by Hufton + Crow Pictures.
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Lead designers: Lisa Bovell, Matt McLeod
