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Mark Cascella / Edward Houle / Jay Alkins

Repenser et redéfinir le logement social au centre-ville, concours étudiant / Rethinking and Redefining Social Housing in the City Centre, student competition

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A. Situation plan.

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B. Perspective.

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B. Ground floor plan.

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B. Floor plan.

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C. Elevation.

GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Team	Mark Cascella
	Edward Houle
	Jay Alkins
Doc. level	75%

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SITE: TORONTO

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Downtown social housing is imagined as maintaining diversity in gentrifying neighbourhoods. Two existing buildings at the corner of Queen Street West and Dowling Avenue in Toronto are retrofitted demonstrating one example of a city-wide subsidized housing network. Interaction between the residents and the community is intensified employing a minimalist architectural approach. Commercial spaces on Queen Street are rented at market rates, and an artist's studio is located adjacent to the laneway. The apartment density is nearly doubled to 32 units, which offer a mixture of one-room studios with two-bedroom apartments. The two buildings are united with a new interior corridor and wrap around a rooftop residents' garden that communicates with a laundry lounge. A transparent all-glass vestibule on Dowling Avenue fronts a social service offering assistance to new and low income entrepreneurs; this is available to the general public as a way of improving social housing's relevance to the local community. A small park or square on the street corner is another public amenity; offering both sunny and shaded places to sit, greenery, and a fountain, it animates the neighbourhood's street life and is the project's most characteristic social space.

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