Surround Architecture

Our process begins and ends with how the home engages the site. While traveling through the vast farmland north of Toronto on our first visit to this rural site, a realization occurs that the approach becomes perched atop a plateau overlooking an ancient seabed. A cresting vista of the Georgian Bay with a soft fading sky is finally revealed and nestled below, amongst the apple orchards, is the Lacuna residence.

Lacuna sits near the southern edge of the Georgian Bay of Ontario. Within a short distance from shore is the extensive Niagara Escarpement—an extensive Paleozoic landmass of eroded cliffs, wetlands, and a forest ecosystem that spans nearly the entire southern edge of the Great Lakes. As visitors from the high desert region of Boulder, CO we were fascinated by the seemingly omnipresence of water that ran underneath, through and around every crevasse of the land. A few million years of flowing water has revealed fantastic rock formations and boulders which continue to inspire our language through out the design process.

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Specialty Timber + Steel Fab: .ca
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Soft white walls and ceilings shape an ethereal greatroom at Lacuna, becoming the canvas for punctuated moments of stone, steel, and wood. Delicate steel trusses lend scale to the expansive volume, while stone and wood touch points soften the spaces clean lines.

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Builder:
Specialty Timber + Steel Fab: .ca
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Photography: .photo