FULTON

The high-traffic around the Fulton Avenue project required that primary living areas be  pushed to the rear of the site and using a landscaped orchard as an effective acoustic and visual buffer. The rear yard includes productive plantings from blueberries to figs and was designed as a functional, maintainable landscape rather than purely decorative green space.

The steeply pitched roof was leveraged to increase interior ceiling heights while accommodating oversized guttering sized for the increasingly frequent West Coast atmospheric rivers. Roof runoff is captured and directed to an underground cistern integrated below grade. The collected water is filtered to potable standards and serves as the home’s primary water source for both domestic use and irrigation. The system reduces municipal water demand and required early coordination between structural, civil, and mechanical scopes to ensure long-term reliability and serviceability.

Design: Robert Burgers, Cedric Burgers, Marieke Burgers, Rik Negus 
Build: CB Developments  
Construction Management: Alex Burgers 
Structural: C.A. Boom Engineering LTD.                                                                        
Landscape: Ron Rule Consultants LTD.                                                        
Photography: Andrew Latreille, Martin Tessler