Designed by Frits de Vries Architect, this contemporary two-storey home is located in Vancouver, Canada.

Description by Frits de Vries Architect
Located in the ?Little Australia? neighbourhood of the UBC Endowment Lands, in Vancouver, this 4,750 sq.ft residence was conceived as an exclusive, for-market home.
Located directly adjacent to Pacific Spirit Park, the FdVA design team identified the forest setting of the neighbourhood as a driving design element. The house is conceived as a pavilion in a park – a loose arrangement of simple, bold elements that float in a park-like atmosphere.
With ample garden and courtyard spaces, the design puts emphasis on outdoor living, with strong visual and physical connections to the natural forest landscape; privacy meticulously balanced with views. The stone-clad, ?solid? half of the house contains the bedrooms, kitchen, bathrooms and other services. The transparent, ?pavilion? half contains the Living and Dining rooms, and the upper floor roof terrace. The house is sited to the east of the property to allow more natural light onto the site and into the home, and enables the garden to wrap continuously around the house, creating a naturalized setting for the house that blends with the nature of the parkland. An excavated and landscaped garden courtyard gives the lower floor of the pavilion a direct connection to the garden, while a more structured garden courtyard in the rear allows natural light to lower-lev...