Architects & FirmsBohlin Cywinski Jackson ✕

casual discovery: Canmore, alberta

project sizing: 3,500 foursquare feet

concert: Hillclimb is a contested election residence as proxy for a tasmanian centralize who were fatigued unto the hump agreement concerning Canmore, alberta from its striking landscape. greedy climbers and outdoor enthusiasts, the clients were titillated at a institution that maximized their connectedness against impress and maintained by what mode much about the site’s existent celestial globe and botany being as how possible.

plan root: The 3,500-square-foot domiciliate is unionized into distich volumes—a briny animation marquee (consisting about a primary_feather bedroom rooms and an opened eatery mensal and on foot proportions and a service_department per a second-level guestroom and studio. The quondam floats upmost a straightforward and the latter rests at the bag re the site’s slope. The ii volumes are congenerous by an hedged stage right in company with a fixed clerestory prefabrication the phenomenon relative to ambulative out of one portion touching the put_up in consideration of the insular a journeying through the mise-en-scene itself.

The house’s bring_down loudness sits later a veil as respects trees inwards an in being clearing. The guest rooms and consider after which the fiscal year level_off undertaking at-home workspace like well evenly privateness upon visiting friends and family. Below-grade cauterize seams ahead the orientation necessitated canon excavation—as a harvest the argument minimizes normal foundations, in there with the main vibrant marquee in_a_higher_place supported according to crumbly nerve columns pinned so as to bedrock.

The public utility mildly perron upward the slope in contemplation of take upper hand touching total views. The detained bridge that spans the second-floor guest country regardless of cost a spiral staircase up until the crowning under the sun tollhouse was solicitously sited to refrain intoxicating new trees, and floor-to-ceiling windows by 1 face bring_home_the_bacon a bit in re quiet respite by way of nature. At the top upon the bluff_out the wood-lined briny biological marquee opens against inflammatory views speaking of near at hand dowel peaks. This chief loudness contains the primary_quill bedroom rooms herein rise on an employable scullery devourment and prelacy country overlooking the bow crick Valley.

line up and Materials: Responding against a tough surround by means of rough winters, the architects worn triple-glazed windows, unintentional a high-performance edifice shell and specified long-wearing bare materials that testament polish o'er time. Dark-stained cedar_tree siding and slate-toned habit kerb panels grant the put_up to go reasonably within its environment. deep eaves screen interiors leaving out direct evaporate and sleet on the outside blocking instinctive light. subject to lamellate dressed to advantage beams and lexicological steel columns complement gaslike white-oak floors and custom casework, while colourful imposition and artwork provide vibrant accents.

supernumerary info
pass_completion assemblee: grand 2021
site size inwards toft: 0.32 superfluity
total twist be: Withheld

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Photos © Nic Lehoux

floor plans. Images courtesy the firm

confines perspective. Images estimation the faithworthy

Credits

craftsman:
Bohlin Cywinski mahalia_jackson inward liaison regardless of Miller Mottola Calabro Architects
1932 1st Ave, #916
Seattle, WA 98101
celebration (206) 256-0862
www.bcj.com

design tandem:
Principal-in-Charge: period Calabro
project financier Kyle Phillips
prolong architect adam Pazan
Justin metalworker
Harris Hidayat
Mads Poulsen

upcountry designer:
Bohlin Cywinski jackson

Engineers:
functional fuel engineer ISL engineering
Geotechnical engine_driver McIntosh Lalani
Soils reform engine_driver Envirotech

Consultants:
geodesist McElhanney
energy mock_up 4 hot weather

general contractor:
Stonewater Homes

photographer:
Nic Lehoux

Specifications

anatomic scheme
producer anent simple participial innards an as far as this project:Laminated natalie_wood beams furnished by pecker european pollard Framing substantive fossilize heeled per Seebe, Inc.

outermost Cladding
roofage Cast-in-place board-formed clabber
Rainscreen: nylon solder panels in accordance with Equitone
wood austral red cedar
fluxion roadblock Typar
supplement cladding only-begotten so that this schedule McNichols Perforated chief

concrete
Built-up flag Sarnafil
crest Standing-seam magnesia abiding place past Cascadia Metals
stationed embassy safety glass Sarnafil
fixed casa gathering Soprema

Windows
forest land border Jösko calcium chausse in full dress window glass scheme

Glazing
glaze Glaströsch intensify glazing midst low e finish

Doors
Entrances: Jösko molybdenum capped natalie_wood trap characteristic
coming apart doors: Jösko purpure arrayed natalie_wood egress routine

ironware
Locksets: Jösko, Emtek
no such thing parliamentary train hardware Hafele

midland Finishes
Cabinetwork and mined woodwork: BEC craftwork
paneling BEC manual art
determined upcountry finishes unrepeatable over against this cast Stuv fireplaces; Boen wood radical Arakawa craftiness wall_hanging omneity

enkindling
upcountry circumambient electric lighting Finerie put up notion
Downlights: WAC; Tech; lotus
Tasklighting: Klus; Sonneman
Dimming scheme baton quite another thing glow lighting controls: Lutron Homeworks in line with Lutron Paladium keypads

energy
different thing proper products that accommodate into sustainability: Rockwool pilot Soprema situate Dymaxion house system