Summary

The facility is a completed passive house built by BC Passive House in 2014, serving as the first such structure in North America. This 1500 square meter project features staff offices and a showroom designed to the Passive House standard. The building assists the company in promoting innovative construction materials and heat recovery systems, specifically to reduce buildings energy consumption by 90. The design intent was to invert a ground floor coffee shop into a shared meeting space for local crafts people to gather, inspire, and foster design and manufacturing excellence. A 2016 award for the Governor Generals Medal in Architecture and multiple other design awards were given to this work. It was inspired by an art work honoring 2006 Vancouver storms and completed under the project Stanley Park.

Title

hemsworth architecture

Description

778-838-2845

Keywords

design, building, house, wood, architecture, status, size, type, client, passive, vancouver, architect, john, floor, construction, facility, project

NS Lookup

A 66.6.44.4

Dates

Created 2026-03-07

Updated 2026-04-14

Summarized 2026-04-17