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Project details:
Location: Toronto, Canada
Photographer: Double speak photography / @2Spacephoto
From the architect: “When Toronto's ice storm spread power for a week in 2013, my parents spent long, restless days next to two slippery fireplaces. The security alarm chirped every few minutes while staying to prevent the pipes before freezing. I promised their next home with such a weather. The city's first phius -certified residence.
“The 3,000 square interior follows a slope. The street side of the house holds its head under the emerging McMansions. A planted glow slips from the front yard towards the gorge, pulls southern sun deep into the plan and the tying of each room in green rank. Spaces are washed in gentle northern light behind a wall of ultra-like triple glazing.
“Passive house discipline led our design decisions. Super -insulated meetings -Avoiding R -50 R -50 in the walls and R -80 on the roof -and a continuous external air -barrier -Trim -Trim heating and uphilling.
“Materials nod on the forests. Ontario-executed ash, jack and white-land wood for floors, walls and cover the private rooms; locally canceled upper algonquin limestone federation The social rooms, glazed terra-kotta baguettes crown the upper facade and destructive fist-floated light light light Light, light light light light light light light light light light light light light light light light lights over the merzzanine, the Merzzan Bagse, the mezzanine, the mezzanine, the bones of the building are unveiled.
“Knotty Pine – the wood that my children's room filled – quit the customer -specific mill and puts a view of the forest in the foreground. As soon as the center of countless family meals is azure -blue granite island, they now slip through a dividing wall to serve as a bathroom vanity on the one hand.
“The landscape administration was part of the letter from the first day. In cooperation with ecologists from the urban researcher, we developed a Havine Management and a stewardship plan, exchanged asphalt against suburbs that sip rainwater and invite birds back to the slope.
“For the architecture of Poiesis, the passive house of West Don Ravine shows that an uncompromising energy performance with openness, craft and deep emotional tie can coexist. Part of the Haven family, partly lively laboratory, West Don Ravine Passive Haus sketches an air -conditioned path for Toronto's next generation of houses.”
