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Lantern House
Lantern House
Vancouver, Canada
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Lantern House
Vancouver, Canada
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2023
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
The house stands in quiet conversation with its surroundings, a measured presence beneath mature oaks. It is an architecture of restraint—one that listens: to filtered light, to shadow on stucco, to air drifting between volumes. Set on a generous Vancouver Westside lot, the home is a sanctuary for a young family, designed to hold silence, shadow, and stillness in balance.
At its core is a central void where light pools and filters into surrounding rooms. This space, both atmospheric anchor and organizing principle, reveals a subtle nine-square grid beneath an informal arrangement of rooms. Below, light streams through the oculus like sun through a forest clearing; above, filtered glow through cedar slats evokes the quiet of dwelling among branches.
The material palette is limited but expressive. A rough stucco base catches shifting light; cedar slats form a lantern-like screen mediating enclosure and privacy. Board-formed concrete anchors the massing and frames views, defining thresholds with quiet strength.
The house presents as enigmatic: a recessed wood entry, a veiled glass band, a concrete wall. To the rear, a second volume shelters a breakfast nook. Inside, movement unfolds gradually: a windowless vestibule opens to a softly lit foyer, then the main space with it’s cascading light. Hidden hi-fi behind limewashed panels allows the living room to shift between gallery and listening space. Upstairs, deepening shadows lead to a hidden tub room lit only from above.
Ultimately, the house presents an architecture of presence and withdrawal, of stillness and light; a vessel for dwelling.
At its core is a central void where light pools and filters into surrounding rooms. This space, both atmospheric anchor and organizing principle, reveals a subtle nine-square grid beneath an informal arrangement of rooms. Below, light streams through the oculus like sun through a forest clearing; above, filtered glow through cedar slats evokes the quiet of dwelling among branches.
The material palette is limited but expressive. A rough stucco base catches shifting light; cedar slats form a lantern-like screen mediating enclosure and privacy. Board-formed concrete anchors the massing and frames views, defining thresholds with quiet strength.
The house presents as enigmatic: a recessed wood entry, a veiled glass band, a concrete wall. To the rear, a second volume shelters a breakfast nook. Inside, movement unfolds gradually: a windowless vestibule opens to a softly lit foyer, then the main space with it’s cascading light. Hidden hi-fi behind limewashed panels allows the living room to shift between gallery and listening space. Upstairs, deepening shadows lead to a hidden tub room lit only from above.
Ultimately, the house presents an architecture of presence and withdrawal, of stillness and light; a vessel for dwelling.
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