Residential · Renfrew–Collingwood, Vancouver
This project starts with a deceptively simple constraint: two brothers and their mother, one building, equal floor area on each side. The challenge is that equal isn't the same as identical — each household has fundamentally different needs, rhythms, and relationships to space.
The design honours the structural equality of the duplex while allowing each unit to express a completely different way of living. One side is built for creativity, colour, and social energy. The other is designed around a mother's comfort and a son's need for quiet focus.
"Two households, entirely their own — designed with equal intention."
Equal in area and structure, but shaped around two households with entirely their own ways of living. The design had to honour both with equal intention.
Full interior architecture across three floors, two units. Material palette, spatial planning, custom millwork, and lighting design throughout.
Renfrew–Collingwood, Vancouver — an established residential neighbourhood with a strong community character and a mix of family housing.
A home built around a lively, expressive way of living. The main floor is designed for entertaining — open, colourful, social. The second floor provides flexible work spaces that can convert to bedrooms as life changes. The third floor is a private primary suite sanctuary, quiet and considered.
Designed around a mother's comfort and daily life. The living areas receive the best natural light and most private backyard views — the spaces she uses most are given priority. Her son's sleep and work zone is carved into the third floor, keeping both generations comfortably connected but independently autonomous.
The two units share identical structural bones — same floor area, same volumes. But the design reads each household's needs independently, allowing the interiors to diverge completely in palette, mood, and spatial priority.
Three floors means three distinct registers of life. Each unit layers public to private from bottom to top — but the transition points are designed differently for each household, reflecting how each family actually moves through a day.
A dog wash station and dedicated cat sun terraces aren't afterthoughts — they're first-class spatial decisions. The people who live here made that clear, and the design took it seriously.