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THE MODERN RESIDENCE
BELOW: Just three meters above sea level, the Saratoga Beach House forms part of a protected coastline in the heart of the windswept Oyster River Basin
of Vancouver Island. The geometric dwelling acts as two organically interconnected frames; one mineral and one wood, both of which float above a virtually
undisturbed site located between one of the world's richest marine tidal ecosystems to the northeast and a wetland preserve to the southwest.
FACING PAGE: The home is strategically built within a grove of 350-year-old Douglas fir trees, thus sharing their shelter and maintaining this essential habitat for
bald eagles and a host of other wildlife. Preserving these majestic trees and pristine coast heavily influenced every aspect of this house and landscape design that
was engineered to halt coastal erosion while rebuilding the coastal riparian beach.
Photographs by Brad Laughton
