Designed as a weekend home for a family of six, Compass House takes its name from the clients? desire to chart a new course as they transition from an extended stay in the United Kingdom to life back in Canada. To achieve this, the design of the home transcends ordinary domestic programming, creating a place of spiritual resonance that orients and heightens one?s experience of the surrounding environment. Through its siting, massing, tectonics and materiality, it balances intimacy and expansiveness, light and dark, land and sky.   

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Architects: Superkül

Location: Mulmur, ON L9V, Canada

Architects In Charge: Meg Graham (Principal), Andre D?Elia (Principal) Anya Moryoussef (Associate), Wendy Wisbrun (Associate)
Area: 4300.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Ben Rahn / A-Frame Studio

Contractor: Wilson Project Management

Structural Engineer: Robert E. Brown & Associates Limited (Phase I) Halsall Associates (Phase II)

Building Science Consultant: Halsall Associates

Geotechnical: Terraprobe Inc.

Mechanical: GPY+ Associates Engineering Inc.

Civil: EXP Services Inc.

Surveyor: Van Harten Surveying & Engineering

Landscape: Whispering Pines Landscaping

Leed: Greenscape Building Consultants Inc.

© Ben Rahn / A-Frame Studio

Designed as a weekend ...