G’Day Aussie Beach House – Palmerston Ave, West Vancouver, BC, Canada 🇨🇦

Name: G’Day House
Type: Modern Contemporary
Bedrooms: 5
Bathrooms: 3
Size: 5,228 sq. ft.
Lot: 0.187 acres
Built: 2014

This West Vancouver architectural masterpiece, designed by Mcleod Bovell Modern Houses, is an example of themed modern minimalism at its finest. Designed to embody a quintessentially Aussie-style lifestyle in Vancouver, the G’Day House achieves a casual beach house vibe high above the city below. The open-house architecture creates a seamless living environment, with exceptional indoor-outdoor spaces, that merge with spectacular 180 degree south facing Ocean views throughout the home.

The G’Day House is a commission for an Australian ex-patriate family, who requested a place that would support a relaxed attitude toward daily life and would help them re-connect with a warm-weather lifestyle. Column-free sliding doors at the Southeast corner of the house effectively double the size of the living area when open. Indoor and outdoor spaces hold equal priority. Materials, form, and spatial relationships are intended to evoke the feel of a beach house: simple, casual and flexible. The dining table and wood-burning fireplace can both be rotated to support a variety of arrangements depending on weather and number of guests.

As avid hosts, the clients felt that the kitchen should anchor the primary living spaces at the upper floor. Combining the dining room and kitchen into a single long space allowed for a narrow floorplate and a resulted in a generous side-yard area used for outdoor cooking. A reflecting pond and fence at the scale of house connect this space with an open terrace to the South and an enclosed garden to the North while creating privacy to the street. This sequence of outdoor spaces from front yard to terrace encourages the direct exterior arrival of guests to the kitchen.