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Project • By SHAPE Architecture • Heritages
1074 Cardero Heritage Revitalization & Infill
The project at 1074 Cardero Street focuses on creating sustainable urban densification in Vancouver. It aims to provide a template and vision for addressing the challenges of offering rental housing for the growing population in the limited urban area of Vancouver’s West End. This project puts forward a strategy for sustainable development and heritage revitalization of the city’s historic fabric while balancing the needs of the “missing middle” in urban housing.
It offers an affordable, mid-density rental housing alternative by way of preservation and carefully considered augmentation of the site. The project aims to address the need for more housing by utilizing the unused space in the city while preserving the hi... More
Project • By Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism • Private Houses
Commonwealth
A brand new single family house in a well established neighborhood of Detroit, known as Woodbridge. On the exterior, the house is meant to follow the vocabulary of its context. On the inside, the house breaks up this pattern in volume. The double height living area is sunken, but windows from the outside are purposely raised high to prevent peering in from the outside. The raised ground floor is turned into a "mezzanine", only providing the entry, kitchen, and dining area and overlooks the living area. All bedrooms/private spaces are on the top floor.
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