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The Cabana
The Cabana
Vancouver, Canada
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Other Projects by Andrea McLean Studio Inc.
The Cabana
Vancouver, Canada
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2018
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
After evaluating the high cost of relocating or building bigger, the Clients decided it would be smarter to adapt their Vancouver backyard into an urban oasis that their young family could grow into and utilize all year round. Their house is a bungalow on a basement, and a minor addition on the back of the house with the addition of a large folding door suddenly gave rise to the idea that the backyard could be used for more than parking. Thus the project brief evolved into also designing two outbuildings, the Cabana and the Workshop.
The Cabana would act as a gym and yoga space most of the time, and a guest house when needed. A wall bed is hidden away behind the millwork. The expansive glazing allows views to the bamboo grove at the rear, the Living patio at the front, and the Workshop to the West.
The Workshop was designed as a single car garage, in case parking was needed in the future, but was outfitted as a workshop. It is a place for the Clients’ children to get messy with crafts and experiments, and any noise would not infiltrate into the house. The Workshop has the same expansive and operable glazing facing the courtyard created by the two buildings. It’s also still in the sight lines from the house.
Seclusion and privacy were paramount for the Clients. The landscape design was the final layer that connected the two buildings to one another, and to the other outdoor ‘rooms’ that evolved from the site planning around the buildings. Even though the planning and design predate the global pandemic, it would be an understatement to say that these outbuildings are coveted now more than ever.
The Cabana would act as a gym and yoga space most of the time, and a guest house when needed. A wall bed is hidden away behind the millwork. The expansive glazing allows views to the bamboo grove at the rear, the Living patio at the front, and the Workshop to the West.
The Workshop was designed as a single car garage, in case parking was needed in the future, but was outfitted as a workshop. It is a place for the Clients’ children to get messy with crafts and experiments, and any noise would not infiltrate into the house. The Workshop has the same expansive and operable glazing facing the courtyard created by the two buildings. It’s also still in the sight lines from the house.
Seclusion and privacy were paramount for the Clients. The landscape design was the final layer that connected the two buildings to one another, and to the other outdoor ‘rooms’ that evolved from the site planning around the buildings. Even though the planning and design predate the global pandemic, it would be an understatement to say that these outbuildings are coveted now more than ever.
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