Liminal House straddles the threshold between a suburban area and West Vancouver’s stony shoreline. The building form references creatures that occupy this territory—who, by necessity, don hard shells over their vulnerable cores. In the same spirit, the house composes its exterior out of concrete, accoya and metal to protect its internal glazed courtyards. Landscaped gardens extended under cantilevered volumes dismantle boundaries between the built and the natural. Reflections and refractions of the changing environment evoke a feeling of being neither here nor there, but somewhere in between.
