Architect: Patkau Architects
Project Team: John Patkau, Patricia Patkau, David Shone, Luke Stern, Marc Holland, Edward Kim, Michael Thorpe, Michelle de Jong, Sebastian Elliot, Nicole Sylvia
Consultants
Structural: RJC Structural Engineering.
Lighting: Margot Richards Lighting
Landscape: Haven Garden Design
Arborist: Talbot Mackenzie & Associates
Energy: Adapt Energy Advising
Builder: Rannala Freeborn Construction
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James Dow / Patkau Architects (1-11)
Patkau Architects (12, 17)
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Description
Intertwining landscape, light, and family life, Arbour House is a loosely knit fabric of spaces that overlook Cadboro Bay in Victoria, British Columbia. Its rooms share passages, views, and breezes rising off of the sea. The variously scaled spaces are unified by a rhythmic pleated ceiling, syncopated by daylight. This intricate wooden arbour, suspended below arrays of operable skylights, is a singular architectural invention that coheres and activates the whole interior. The house opens to the verdant landscape as sunlight threads into the life of the house, its gracious views, its intimate indoor-outdoor living.
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Description
Intertwining landscape, light, and family life, Arbour House is a loosely knit fabric of spaces that overlook Cadboro Bay in Victoria, British Columbia. Its rooms share passages, views, and breezes rising off of the sea. The variously scaled spaces are unified by a rhythmic pleated ceiling, syncopated by daylight. This intricate wooden arbour, suspended below arrays of operable skylights, is a singular architectural invention that coheres and activates the whole interior. The house opens to the verdant landscape as sunlight threads into the life of the house, its gracious views, its intimate indoor-outdoor living.
Location
Size
Client
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
557 sq m / 6,000 sq ft
Confidential
Description
Intertwining landscape, light, and family life, Arbour House is a loosely knit fabric of spaces that overlook Cadboro Bay in Victoria, British Columbia. Its rooms share passages, views, and breezes rising off of the sea. The variously scaled spaces are unified by a rhythmic pleated ceiling, syncopated by daylight. This intricate wooden arbour, suspended below arrays of operable skylights, is a singular architectural invention that coheres and activates the whole interior. The house opens to the verdant landscape as sunlight threads into the life of the house, its gracious views, its intimate indoor-outdoor living.
Intertwining landscape, light, and family life, Arbour House is a loosely knit fabric of spaces that overlook Cadboro Bay in Victoria, British Columbia. Its rooms share passages, views, and breezes rising off of the sea. The variously scaled spaces are unified by a rhythmic pleated ceiling, syncopated by daylight. This intricate wooden arbour, suspended below arrays of operable skylights, is a singular architectural invention that coheres and activates the whole interior. The house opens to the verdant landscape as sunlight threads into the life of the house, its gracious views, its intimate indoor-outdoor living.
Description
Intertwining landscape, light, and family life, Arbour House is a loosely knit fabric of spaces that overlook Cadboro Bay in Victoria, British Columbia. Its rooms share passages, views, and breezes rising off of the sea. The variously scaled spaces are unified by a rhythmic pleated ceiling, syncopated by daylight. This intricate wooden arbour, suspended below arrays of operable skylights, is a singular architectural invention that coheres and activates the whole interior. The house opens to the verdant landscape as sunlight threads into the life of the house, its gracious views, its intimate indoor-outdoor living.