This house is a simple concrete shell. Nothing more. Nothing less. The perimeter is pushed and pulled in various directions; it is punched through in multiple locations. Apparently, all this is done for the sake of conversation. It is about a conversation with a context: the mid-town urban fabric. This is a context with almost no qualities. Probably this is a misstatement. The landscape is magnificent. The architecture is banal, at moments, quite ugly. Engaged in the conversation, this house accepts, learns, and mimics the architectural language: simple openings, a cornice, a chimney, a water drainpipe; nothing out of norm. This house is a case of semblance.
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You will enter this house from the sides. You will enter it though a porch masked by a veil, to one side. To the other side, you will enter it where the walls have been pushed under the hanging cornice. The interior is a collection of rooms in different shapes and sizes. The walls are progressively removed as one moves from basement to the upper floor. The basement is a labyrinth. The ground floor is a passage space that facilities movement from front to back through two sets of steps and an extend back-door space. Here, unintentional alveolus-like spaces are produced as an outcome of the exterior driven push and pull actions of the walls. The upper floor is one room where emptiness is supreme. Various permanent or transient forms are placed: a triangle of light, a pig bathing in Bahamas, fancy chairs, a hanged circular road, etc. The bathroom is the open circle.
This house is in Toronto.
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Type: Proposal
Size: 200m2
Program: House
Date: 2017
Location: Toronto, Canada
Client: Undisclosed
Art Work: Matthew Leander Kalil
Credits: Office of Adrian Phiffer – Dimitrios Karopoulos, Liusaidh Macdonald, Adrian Phiffer
