PROTOTYPE PASSIVE LANEWAY HOUSING

An unusual project for the University of Toronto to design prototype Passive Laneway Houses for a site within the Huron-Sussex Neighbourhood of the St. George Campus. The mandate of this prototype was to drive a larger initiative for affordable, sustainable infill housing on existing sites within walking distance of the campus.

Architecturally, the prototype houses are conceived as a contemporary intervention that is still sympathetic to the scale, massing, and context of their surrounding site. They also create outdoor space for their occupants, a shared courtyard that functions as “backyard” space for the three new houses.