keeping it simple

Designed as a home and studio for a photographer and his young family, Lightbox by United States-based architectural practice Bohlin Cywinski Jackson enables one to view the subtlety and beauty of the site while providing comfort and pleasure in the constantly changing light of the forest. Located on a peninsula that extends south from British Columbia across the border to Point Roberts, Lightbox rise on a densely forested site lies beside a 180-acre park that overlooks the Strait of Georgia, the San Juan Islands and the Puget Sound.

The home was made decidedly modest, in size and means, with a building skin utilizing simple materials in a straightforward yet innovative configuration. The result is a structure crafted from affordable and common materials such as exposed wood two-bys that form the structural frame and directly support a prefabricated aluminum window system of standard glazing units uniformly sized to reduce the complexity and overall cost.

The south facing two-story glass home captures the sun and vistas as it celebrates the interplay of light and shadow in the forest. Really …. what more could one want, this is “get away” perfection.