G’DAY HOUSE
Mcleod Bovell Modern Houses
ARCHITECTS
Mcleod Bovell Modern Houses
FURNISHING
Living Space
PLUMBING
Ambient Showroom
MANUFACTURERS
Ames Tile & Stone, Antonio Lupi, Aquabrass, Arco, Caesarstone, FireOrb, Flos, Foscarini, Graff, Kristalia , Miele, Paola Lenti, Flos, Neowall, Upper Canada Forest Products
STRUCTURAL
KSM Associates
CIVIL
Creus Engineering
CONTRACTOR
J. Bannister Homes
LANDSCAPE
Botanica Design
MILLWORK
Munro Woodworking
GLAZING
Atlas Meridian Glassworks
LIGHTING & FURNISHING
Living Space
PHOTOGRAPHS
Ema Peter
AREA
409 m²
YEAR
2016
LOCATION
West Vancouver, Canada
CATEGORY
Houses
Text description provided by architect.
The G’Day House is a commission for an Australian ex-patriate family, who requested a home that would support a relaxed attitude toward daily life and would help them re-connect with a warm-weather lifestyle.
Column-free sliding doors at the Southeast corner of the house effectively double the size of the living area when open; indoor and outdoor spaces hold equal priority.
Materials, form, and spatial relationships are intended to evoke the feel of a beach house: simple, casual and flexible.
The dining table and wood-burning fireplace can both be rotated to support a variety of arrangements depending on weather and number of guests.
As avid hosts, the clients felt that the kitchen should anchor the primary living spaces at the upper floor.
Combining the dining room and kitchen into a single long space allowed for a narrow floor-plate and resulted in a generous side-yard area, used for outdoor cooking.
A reflecting pond and fence at the scale of house connect this space with an open terrace to the South and an enclosed garden to the North while creating privacy to the street.
This sequence of outdoor spaces from the front yard to terrace encourages the direct exterior arrival of guests to the kitchen.
