Nancy Bouchard started her business in Lund over 20 years ago and has successfully grown it from a solo endeavour to a dynamic and prosperous community hub/employer. With her husband, builder Ben Bouchard, Nancy approached me to design a new contemporary home for her Bakery. Limited by its long narrow sloping site, the design was conceived as an elongated linear interior and exterior ‘path’ running parallel to an existing seawalk aligning the harbour. The building form steps up with the slope and achieves a second level of shops providing deck space with spectacular views. The idea was to create an affordable, welcoming, and contemporary building that would also exist well against the backdrop of older eclectic shingle structures and their nautical environment.

Lund, B.C. is a small coastal village rich in history, from it’s original Coast Salish inhabitants to it’s Swedish logging and fishing settlement of 1889. Today it represents an ‘end of the road’ hub (literally situated at the top of coastal Hwy 101 which stretches to the tip of South America) where visitors venture forth to cottages, islands, kayaking trips and boat tours of ‘Desolation Sound Marine Park’ and beyond, all the way to Alaska.

Owner/Builder: Ben Bouchard Contracting