The Andrew Residence

The house sits in the Upper Squamish Valley, a rural stretch of farmland and wilderness north of Vancouver. The brief was to carry that openness indoors, so the plan follows one line from the first sketch: centre the home on a beam of light.

A central stair rises under a skylight, and the light drops the full height of the house to a small planted garden at its base. The rooms gather around that column of light rather than a hallway, and a slatted wood screen separates them without closing anything off.

Along the main floor, a glazed wall and wrapping decks soften the line between inside and the valley beyond. A double-sided, see-through fireplace, set into a light concrete mass, warms the living and dining rooms from one volume, with a cascade of glass pendants falling over the dining table.

The materials stay quiet, wood, stone, and linen in neutral tones, with a single note of green in the seating, leaving the view to carry the colour.