Some briefs arrive with a person at the centre of them so clearly that the architecture almost writes itself. This was one of those projects.

The client is a young father of two and a para-extreme athlete — a surfer, a mountain biker, an adventurer who navigates the world from a wheelchair without letting it slow him down in any meaningful way. What he needed was a home that matched that energy: single-level, fully accessible, with smooth and level access to the patio and yard, and serious storage for the gear that makes his lifestyle possible.

The design response was a modern rancher — but not a typical one. The butterfly roof rises and falls across the main house and flows through to the coach house roof in a single undulating gesture, a roofline that moves the way the mountains and waves do. It's a nod to the North Shore peaks visible to the north, where he charges adaptive downhill trails, and to the Pacific swells he paddles out into. The architecture doesn't just house the life — it reflects it.

The coach house adds 700 sq ft to the property, more than half of which is dedicated workshop and gear storage — a proper base of operations for equipment that doesn't belong in a living room but deserves a home of its own.

For a young family putting down roots in Lynn Valley, this is a home built around who they actually are.