More photos on and Instagram: or Facebook: - Retweet our content: br Project name: Full Housebr Architecture firm: Leckie Studiobr Location: Vancouver, Bc, Canadabr Photography: Ema Peterbr Principal architect: Michael Leckiebr Design team: James Eidse, Emily Dovbniak, Milan Nikic, Ashley Hannon, Dimitri Koubatis, Elaine Tatbr Collaborators: Building Envelope: Spratt Emanuel Engineering. • Cea: Capital Home Energy. • Arborist: Monkey Tree Servicesbr Interior design: Gaile Guevarabr Built area: 3,700 ft²br Site area: 6,250 ft²br Design year: 2016br Completion year: 2020br Civil engineer: br Structural engineer: Fast & Eppbr Environmental & MEP: br Landscape: Cyan Horticulturebr Lighting: br Supervision: br Visualization: Lsa+D (Ryan Nelson + Jason Hall). Renderings: Plus Visualbr Tools used: AutoCAD, SketchUpbr Construction: Powers Constructionbr Material: Concrete, Steel, Glass, Woodbr Budget: $2.29m (Construction WO Landscape)br Client: Privatebr Status: Builtbr Typology: Residential › Housebr Leckie Studio: Full House envisions a new way of living which benefits multiple generations and inspires progressive community values. The design concept was developed in response to the specific urban conditions of Vancouver, but the qualities of the house are globally applicable. By amplifying flexibility of program, fluid circulation, and plentiful access to green space and natural light, Full House proposes a framework for a life centered upon health, play, and relationships.br br Conceived as a five-bedroom home with a one-bedroom laneway house, the program follows the logic of a traditional family residence. However, the main floor pivot door – inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s Door: 11, Rue Larrey (1927) – allows for a highly unusual degree of flexibility. In the context of Full House, Duchamp’s conceptual artwork is reinterpreted as a functional architectural element: the pivoting steel plate partition can occupy three possible positions, modulating the adjacent spaces to generate different combinations of public and private domestic spaces. Depending upon the placement of the partitions, the program transitions between a large five-bedroom home or two discreet dwelling units (comprising either a three-bedroom suite and a two-bedroom suite, or a four-bedroom suite and a one-bedroom suite). These alternating configurations might serve any number of scenarios, whether elderly parents living with their children and grandchildren, a young couple seeking to lease separate suites, or a co-living environment for a group of friends.