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Tree Top Residence, Belzberg Architects | International Design Awards Winners
Tree Top Residence, Belzberg Architects | International Design Awards Winners
Tree Top Residence, Belzberg Architects | International Design Awards Winners
Tree Top Residence, Belzberg Architects | International Design Awards Winners
Tree Top Residence, Belzberg Architects | International Design Awards Winners
Tree Top Residence, Belzberg Architects | International Design Awards Winners
Tree Top Residence, Belzberg Architects | International Design Awards Winners
Tree Top Residence, Belzberg Architects | International Design Awards Winners
Tree Top Residence, Belzberg Architects | International Design Awards Winners
Tree Top Residence, Belzberg Architects | International Design Awards Winners

Tree Top Residence

CompanyBelzberg Architects
Lead Designers
ClientHagy Belzberg
Prize(s)Honorable Mention
Entry Description

The Tree Top Residence celebrates the site’s complex
landscape, merging with it seamlessly and emerging from it
atop the canopy of trees that surround it. Built along a
natural ridgeline, the long and narrow plan of the three-
story house mimics and inverts the angles of the site’s
topography, creating dynamic vertical and horizontal
relationships.
Vertically, an eccentrically-helical stair functions as a
primary organizing element and a sculptural gesture upon
entry into the house. Horizontally, walls are used sparingly
in favor of fluidly connected spaces: between rooms and to
blend the interior with the outside. The design culminates in
the master bedroom, which features full-height sliding doors
at its cantilevered corner. The orchestration of this view,
overlooking a dense canopy of trees, embodies the intent to
offer respite from the city below.