British Columbia home immerses its occupants within the area’s evergreen forests

Path’s Edge is a monumental new household residence: a British Columbia home that conceals its substantial dimension by way of its immersive relationship with its pure environment in a wooded plot in Whistler. 

Openspace Structure designs this British Columbia home

Designed by North Vancouver’s Openspace Structure, a observe based in 1998 by Don Gurney and Eric Pettit, the brand new home is considered one of a sequence of spectacular residences the studio has constructed within the Pacific Northwest.

At 8,200 sq ft, the home occupies the southern a part of a wedge-shaped plot south of Whistler Creek. The plan is tapered to observe the property line, with floor-to-ceiling glass searching onto the timber and a comparatively obscured and sober façade going through the general public highway, cloaking what’s inside.

The connection with nature is emphasised by the decks that wrap across the forest façade. They’re lined by a prow-like roof that sails off into the timber, and are supported by a row of tall metal columns that evoke the area’s arrow-straight cedar and pine timber. The decrease deck wraps round the home and features a sizzling tub and a hearth pit, whereas the higher deck stage is a extra non-public house accessed from the principal bed room suite.

All through the challenge, the architects have used chunky basalt stone cladding to outline key areas of the inside and exterior, which distinction with the positive joinery used all through for flooring, ceiling, cabinetry and key items of furnishings.

The architects describe this mix of solidity and openness as a means of reaching ‘the psychological comforts of shelter’. The inside is equally subdivided, with skinny picket slat screens serving as partitions between the fluid sequence of essential residing rooms, which flow into round the principle hallway.

These embody a residing and eating room, a household room, video games room and workplace, with a downstairs visitor suite and a devoted house for ski storage and altering.

Upstairs there are 5 extra ensuite bedrooms, with a double-height stairwell that rises up above the principle entrance corridor. The architects write that the ‘structure immerses its inhabitants into the positioning’s surroundings and presents a relaxing treatment to the cacophony of city life’.

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