Madeira Park Residence

Residential - Single Family - New



Set above the water of Pender Harbour, the house is organized around two simple gabled volumes and the landscape that passes between them. Their perpendicular arrangement creates a central threshold through the building — beginning at the entry, moving through the stair hall, and extending outward toward the harbour and a small private boathouse below.  Rather than treating the water as a backdrop, the plan uses this sequence to establish a relationship between land and shore. Moving through the house, the view is progressively revealed, drawing the eye across the interior and out toward Garden Bay beyond. 

The two gables give the house a familiar, almost elemental form, but their intersection produces a more complex interior experience. The roof volumes remain legible from within, creating tall rooms shaped by sloping ceilings, while carefully positioned skylights bring daylight down the gable walls and into the centre of the plan.  In this way, a small set of architectural elements — roof, wall, stair, opening and view — are used to connect the scale of the rooms to the larger coastal landscape.