Dochia sweeps double awards in 2 winning categories in this year’s BLT international Architectural & Design Competition!

Most Canadian families have a link to the old world. As designers we often face the challenges of merging heirlooms and artifacts with a contemporary aesthetic. This is such a home where the interiors have been shaped at the intersection of nature with architecture, shapes of the past with those of the present.

The artifacts that we had to incorporate and that are part of the clients' cultural heritage. As a country of immigration, the past that our people bring to the country and how they past is integrated into their current way of living is at the center of wellbeing and integration. 

A sense of belonging is achieved by morphing such culturally recognizable pieces with a new and modern interior. They together form an authentic Canadian living.

The simplicity of detail in the modern pieces is deliberate and its intent is to harmonize with the more traditional pieces. The Owners asked for lightness, for the incorporation of their inherited pieces in a contemporary aesthetic.

One of the most successful spatial moves was the combined galleria effect with the positioning of the breakfast bar; aside from having this defining, longitudinal art space that borders the 3 open concept spaces: living, family room and breakfast, a new “room” was created between the bar and the stair that is occupied by the grand piano. On the backdrop of the art-wall at the kitchen end of the galleria, the white piano presents itself as a sculpture on its own.

See more photos of this beautiful project HERE