JAPAVARIAN-HAUS
2026 | RICHMOND, BC | COMPLETE
BUILT BY: ROADHOUSE PROJECTS
INTERIORS BY: BALANCE 3 DESIGN
Japavarian Haus is a custom family home that helped define Longpre Architecture’s emerging Japavarian design language, a fusion of Japanese spatial philosophy, Scandinavian clarity, Bavarian warmth, and the lived reality of Vancouver.
The house responds to a familiar local desire: a home that feels sophisticated, but also quiet, grounded, and close to nature. Its farmhouse inspired form, steep roof lines, warm vertical cladding, dark grounded volumes, stone base, deep overhangs, and protected thresholds create the feeling of a mountain retreat within the city.
At the centre of the project is a calm garden world. The home is organized around a courtyard that brings light, landscape, and stillness into daily life while preserving privacy on a compact urban site. Stone, gravel, planting, timber platforms, and carefully framed outdoor spaces create moments of pause and return throughout the home.
Drawing from Japanese tradition, the concealed front entry creates a quiet moment of arrival, while the genkan forms a threshold between the outside world and the inner life of the home. Inside, the same language continues through warm wood, soft light, fluted glass, brass fixtures, textured tile, and rooms shaped around privacy, bathing, rest, and daily ritual.
Japavarian Haus is designed to feel humble, warm, and enduring. It is a home made for family life, quiet retreat, daily rituals, and becoming, a vessel for the soul in the middle of the city.
