Toronto. A flipped house

Atelier Reza Aliabadi has renewed an old brick residence in Toronto, which features a slatted screen, making it look like a monolithic object.

Atelier Reza Aliabadi, Flipped House, Toronto, 2017

Designed by Atelier Reza Aliabadi, the Flipped House is a renovation project and second-storey addition to an existing brick bungalow in a residential neighbourhood in Eglinton East on the border between Toronto and Scarborough. Flipped House adopts a configuration that divides its public and private zones on either side of a vertical plane. As a result, the home’s den, kitchen, dining, and living rooms are all located on its street-facing northeast side, while the house’s three bedrooms span both levels of the building’s more secluded southwestern end.

The home’s varying ceiling heights work to communicate this symbolic dividing line. The linked first-floor kitchen and dining room are double-height spaces, with the ceiling then dropping down to single-storey height as one enters the hallway moving towards the residence’s more intimate back bedrooms. A slatted screen on the second storey is installed to distort the scale of the property and ensure that the structure reads more like a monolithic object than a typical home.

Project:
Flipped House
Program:
single family house
Architect:
Atelier Reza Aliabadi – Reza Aliabadi, Arman Azar
Structural engineering:
LHW Engineering
Installation:
Monaro Engineering
Contractor:
HYZ Development & Construction
Area:
215 sqm
Completion:
2017

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