Architectural Design Studio 5: Option Studios - Wright/Love/Saleff

Instructors: Tim Love, Ivan Saleff and Robert Wright

Walk Up Urbanism Option Studio

The studio will focus on a range of still-to-be-invented urban housing types – and quality of urban spaces – that do not currently exist in Toronto given the city’s specific development history:  dense wood-frame housing with ground level-accessible walk-up units. The goal of the studio will be to invent new building types that are compliant with the building code and accessibility guidelines and acknowledge the parameters of the construction and real estate market - yet are unprecedented because of their spatial configuration, social attributes, and the relationship between the dwellings and the landscape (both public and private). In addition, the studio will examine, through the proposals that are generated, potential implications for the city’s existing medium density zoning and bylaws.

See full course outline here.