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Reimagining The Indoor Swimming Pool For A Bucolic Patch Of West Side Woods

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With our city now so laughably unaffordable, thousands of Vancouverites are stuck imagining wonderful homes instead of living in them. “Spaced” is a record of our minds wandering the world of architecture and design, up and away from the unrewarding realities of shoebox condos, dark basement suites, and sweet fuck all on Craigslist.

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(via) Dutch dreamers at LAAV Architects came up with this extraordinary home concept, which they imagined in an open grove of pine trees somewhere in the Netherlands. We’d take it exactly as it’s depicted above and below, only near UBC on a quiet, wooded edge of the Endowment Lands. It’s called Villa Clessidra, and it is essentially a layered concrete box that sees the entirety of its second floor given over to a glass-bottomed swimming pool (thereby lending the first floor a shimmeringly aquatic ceiling). The old Jaguar in the garage can come too.

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All images via LAAV Architects

SPACED // Tiny ‘Nature Villa’ in the Woods

It lacks a kitchen but we'd happily cook over a fire nearby just so we could sleep in that bed and hang on that deck...

Contemplating Life on a Handmade ‘Floating Island’

The big deck holds a BBQ, a herb garden, a hammock, and several other wonderful things besides (like a baby blue canoe).

We’d Like to Self-Isolate in This Off-Grid Tiny House on the Other Side of the World

To be able to escape the city for the sake of social distancing is a dream worth having in these weird and dangerous times.

We Dig These Cabins Designed For Sustaining Good Times in the Wild

The cool and remote constructions take full advantage of photovoltaic panels, grey/black water treatment and rainwater collection.