Project Credits & Specs
- Architecture: StudioAC
- Photography: Doublespace Photography
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Area: 2 500 ft2
- Year: 2021
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- StudioAC Team: Madeline Planer, Shasha Wang, Jonathan Miura, Audrey Liang, Jennifer Kudlats, Andrew Hill
- Structural Engineering: Blackwell Structural Engineers
- Construction Management: Whitaker Construction
Project Description
Everden is a newly built construction of a single-family residence. The brief was to create a unique and personal home for the homeowners, unapologetically contemporary, while still having cues to the traditional ideas of “house”. What followed was a three-story form, reading as stacked boxes, carrying the motif of “house” throughout the interior.
While a gabled roof is one of the quintessential icons of “house”, the Studio was interested in elevating this phenomenon beyond motif to a spatial experience that defined a narrative throughout the project. A gabled space on Level 3 relates to the roofline, however, a decision was made that the ground floor, often relegated to cubic space, should be provided with a gable extrusion to enhance the sense of ‘house’ across the shared living spaces. This combined a planimetric and material direction to emphasize a three-dimensional stacking and staggering that plays with the definition between form, space, and motif.
The Everden house places much of its emphasis on the experience of space, allowing for flexibility with material expression. This approach was integral to working with the client’s budget strategy and thesis: to create an impactful project without being indulgent. The house features an exterior cladding of corrugated metal – durable, affordable, and familiar. The material is elevated through the precise detailing of levels and parapets to create the illusion of stacked boxes. Similarly, the interior focuses on one critical move: the peaked ceiling scape. This allowed other details to become secondary and, in doing so, more cost-effective.
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About the Architects
Studio for Architecture & Collaboration is an interdisciplinary architectural practice based in Toronto led by Andrew Hill and Jennifer Kudlats. The practice was founded in 2015 and has since received numerous accolades: appearing in a number of publications internationally. Legibility, clarity, and singularity work together to make projects that impact the user and increase the real and intrinsic value of the work. StudioAC strives to create impactful and thoughtful architecture that speaks to its context at a multitude of scales. They believe that good design, architecture, and art can bring people together, enhance a community, help businesses to flourish, and start much-needed conversations within our cities.
