The aluminum upper level goes almost unseen from the front of the house. From the laneway in the back, the full vertical mass comes into view, bringing the nearby foliage into the home and the inhabitants to the outdoors. To construct the third-floor addition without burdening the party walls, a new steel structure was introduced to the original wooden building from the ground all the way to the upper roof.
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Aleph-Bau, Twelve Tacoma, axonometry
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Aleph-Bau, Twelve Tacoma, section
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Aleph-Bau, Twelve Tacoma, section
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Aleph-Bau, Twelve Tacoma, section
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Aleph-Bau, Twelve Tacoma, third floor
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Aleph-Bau, Twelve Tacoma, second floor, before/after
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Aleph-Bau, Twelve Tacoma, ground floor, before/after
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Aleph-Bau, Twelve Tacoma, basement, before/after
Twelve Tacoma, Toronto, Canada
Program: house renovation and addition
Architects: Aleph-Bau (Delnaz Yekrangian)
Team: Gina Gallaugher, Golara Jalalpour, Joseph McBurney, So Tadachi, Fabiana Todescan, Leila Sadri, Kazem Yekrangian
Structural engineering: Blackwell
Area: 114 sqm
Completion: 2016