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Symbolic Public Form & the Library Art Gallery of Ontario |
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TEEPLE ARCHITECTS | NEILAS RESIDENCE Intern Architect. Toronto. January 2008-December 2008 Built on a tight laneway site in downtown Toronto, the Neilas residences seeks to reinterpret the notion of the urban villa. The house utilizes a series of vertical shafts and a three-dimensional perforated skin to mediate the public and private programs despite their close proximity. The enclosed vertical shafts (elevators, washrooms, etc.) provide critical anchor points, separating the private programs and allowing public program to flow around. The Neilas residence contains three courtyard/ terraces that allow both the public and private spaces to spill out of the residence. A perforated aluminium skin wraps the house and further mediates views within and outside the project. Changing densities of the skin’s perforation control the visual porosity throughout the house. The duality of the skin – providing separations and uniting the divergent programs - is indicative of transposing a villa to an urban site. |
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