Lantern House

The existing house sat square to the road and turned its back on four acres of maple. We kept the footprint, planning was far easier that way, and rotated everything inside it fifteen degrees, so every principal room now looks down the slope instead of across it.

The upper floor is a continuous glazed band set between two render planes. At night the reveal disappears and the house reads as a single lit volume, which is where the name came from and which the neighbours, we are told, have mixed feelings about.

Heating is a ground loop under the old driveway. Reusing that excavation paid for roughly half the borehole cost.