Modern Home Design At The Foot Of Mountains With Its Big Overhangs And Large Cantilevers

Description from the architects: Sitting at the foot of Vancouver’s North Shore mountains the Bridge House represents a regional adaptation to a modern aesthetic by incorporating a West Coast sensibility into its clean modern design. The North Shore of Vancouver straddles the line between the wilderness of the coast mountains and the metropolis that is Vancouver. The Bridge House metaphorically spans between these two worlds with its West Coast contemporary expression. The Bridge House was given its name because of a dramatic bridge that extends from the rear yard to the house. The building site rises a whole floor level from the front of the house to the rear yard. The client wanted to enter the front of the home on the main floor at grade and wanted to maintain a connection at this level to the rear yard as well. This would require creating a sunken rear yard adjacent to the house and the concern was that this would create a disconnection to the higher part of the rear yard beyond. This challe