Summerhill House in Toronto
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Summerhill House in Toronto
Urban Residential Development in Canada – design by AKB, Atelier Kastelic Buffey
11 Dec 2017
Summerhill House
Architects: AKB, Atelier Kastelic Buffey
Location: midtown Toronto, Canada
Summerhill House
In the leafy residential enclave of Summerhill in midtown Toronto, AKB have designed an unabashedly contemporary and exceedingly functional home for a professional couple with a young child. The new 3,900-square-foot home utilizes the foundation and side walls of a previous house on site, and occupies the footprint of the original building with only a modest expansion at the rear. The three-storey datum of the neighbouring homes is maintained.
Despite fairly tight site constraints on this urban cul-de-sac, the architects packed a typical residential program into four levels with great efficiency and economy. A balance of much-needed privacy and openness is achieved through a strategy that limits exposure to the street-facing elevation while drawing in natural light and neighbourhood perspectives at the back of the house. Views from all levels of the house to the seemingly endless verdant expanse of the adjacent parkette visually extend the clients? modest garden space.
Boldly graphic orthogonal geometries define both front and back elevations, with tall slender windows and deeply recessed balconies forming an intriguing compositio...
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