Situated in a quiet residential neighbourhood west of downtown Edmonton, this custom dwelling - completed in 2010 - is a crisp edifice featuring a modern facade with a decisively minimalist profile.

Facing north toward the splendour of a mature ravine park, the compact but efficient house was designed entirely to meet the client’s needs while responding to site conditions that visually extend beyond the property edges to the ‘borrowed’ landscape.

The exterior finishing is a deftly combined palette of glass, metal, luxuriant ipe and sultry acrylic stucco cladding. Designed to be both in and out of the landscape, the house choreographs the site, negotiating the gentle grade between the site and neighbouring river valley.