The renovation of a 200-year-old Toronto Villa by Giannone Petricone combines history and innovation

Only from the outside, the front and back of the Snider house in North -Toronto, could not be more different. The stately Redbrick main facade, which has resigned from the street, and the winding glass addiction in the back appears at a height, but on the other side of the staid, great and historical, but on the other side adventurous, short -lived and extremely contemporary. However, this dichotomy is superficial-a simplified introduction of a demanding and thoughtful approach to the revival of an almost 200 year old house.

The house, built in 1828, is after his first inmate, William Snider, the son of a British loyalist who fought in the American War of Independence and finally settled here. Snider replaced a log cabin that his father had built on the site, which was then surrounded by Ackerland, with a Redbrick-Cottage and finally expanded them to a villa in the rainy style. The two-story (plus loft) house is now in the middle of the leaf suburb, on a deep but narrow property between Georgian and tudor styles. When it was bought by its current owners-a couple with two children in 2017, the house had the 1980s in the interior from the outdoor area from the 1980s, which had deteriorated or replaced and changed over time, and in the rear area a HodgePodge of additions on the flat foundation, the architect, the Pina Petricone Petricone-Base Assocone Assocone Assocone Assocone Assocone Assocone Assocone Assocone Assocone Assocone, the Giannone from Giannone Assocone Assocones.

As the oldest surviving house in this part of the city, the building has the status of the inheritance, which meant that the work would include the primary and side facades – a task of Giannone Petricone, known for his inventive projects, which are known from the preservation and reuse to the new building. In cooperation with the architects of the Consultant era, the company renovated or created the original details such as the front door with its complicated side lights, verse spindles and stream items as well as the clips of the cornice and replaced the windows with high performance.

On the back, where the architects had more freedom, they “scraped away the barns,” says Petricone and referred to the earlier attachments. In their place, they designed a two -story addition that was almost exclusively included in an undulantary glass with a view of a deck and a swimming pool. The glazed veil made of Argonic units, which was made in Spain and hung like a curtain wall from above, defines a family room and a kitchen on the first floor. On the upper level, the glass grabs and steps back and surrounds the primary bedroom and the bathroom.

Within the shell from the 19th century, in which only a few original elements were left, the architects created an environment that is not slavishly historical, but one that Petricone says “a better version of themselves”. For example, they improved the “fitness” of the househill course, isolate the masonry from the interior and thus increased the finished wall thickness from 11½ to 15½ inches. The new weight not only offers improved thermal performance, but also makes the structure feel authentically older. You can appreciate this accented solidity in the dining room and living room on both sides of the house of the house on the first floor. There, the double-hanging wings consist of the outside, the deep window environment consist of smooth white, solid surfaces, as well as the extra-high basic strip moves, which help intensify the feeling of weight.

Although the ambience in the front of the house is formal, traces of the expressive DNA of the addition are obvious. One example is the cloud -shaped trailers over the dining table. Another is the opening over the stairs in the ceiling on the first floor. Originally configured with Little Headroom, the opening was enlarged, with an edge that changes organically. The wooden handrail of the stairs, supported by sloping baltors, the angle of which corresponds to that of the riser, ends in a snake leather coil. On the second floor, where there are two bedrooms next to the primary property (a fourth bedroom was created in the earlier attic), the curved surfaces, which consist of dry wall, will continue to be subtle. These playful details, says Petricone, are parts of the addition like “escaping”.

These bits, which are out of control, serve to approach the historical part of the house, as well as the interior. Meanwhile, they are warm, inviting and tactile, but also durable. White oak cover the floors; Gray book with brown book with brown aden disguised the fireplace of the living room; Walnussmühle with rounded corners helps the threshold between the dining room and the kitchen. And a deep blue felt covers the walls of the family room. Even the undulantian excavation is quite robust despite its sensitive appearance, says Petricone.

The reborn Snider house is many things at the same time and reaches a rich layer of ideas. The residence respects history and renovates with suitable gravitas. But it is also luxurious and carefree and comfortable perfect for the life of the 21st century.