This Vancouver Home Is Designed to Make You Forget the City - Japavarian Haus - Longpre Architecture

Step inside Japavarian Haus, a custom home in Richmond, British Columbia, designed by Longpre Architecture Inc. as a private retreat for modern Vancouver living. Completed in 2026, this Vancouver custom home combines Japanese inspired architecture, Scandinavian clarity, Bavarian warmth, and West Coast residential design.
Located in Metro Vancouver, Japavarian Haus explores how a contemporary family home can create privacy, calm, warmth, and connection to nature within an urban setting.
The home is organized around a private courtyard that brings natural light, landscape, and stillness deep into the house while protecting the family from the surrounding neighbourhood.
A concealed front entry creates a quiet moment of arrival. Steep roof forms, deep overhangs, warm vertical cladding, stone, sheltered thresholds, and grounded architectural volumes give the house the atmosphere of a mountain retreat within the city.
Inside, warm wood, natural light, fluted glass, brass fixtures, textured tile, and carefully framed rooms continue the same architectural language. The interiors are shaped around bathing, rest, gathering, privacy, and the everyday rituals of family life.
Japavarian is Longpre Architecture Inc.'s evolving approach to residential architecture, influenced by Japanese architecture, Scandinavian design, Bavarian vernacular buildings, and the particular climate and culture of Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest.
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