To Hurontario Street 'live-work' units are built up to the pavement line with two storey glazed facades between concrete party walls. Private balconies are set back at second floor level.
On Burnhamthorpe Road East terraced townhouses are set back from the pavement. Oversailing balconies articulate the facade.
Rear passages, slotted between the three storey units, filter natural light to below grade and provide access to allocate parking and waste storage.
A shopping concourse is accessed from the plaza on the south west corner. This follows a linear ramped route, parallel to Burnhamthorpe Road East.
Passing through the public entrance from the plaza leads residents to a two-storey lobby within the inner ring of the tower with amenity space above and shared, external space accessed directly from the third floor.
The tower is designed to provide double aspect apartments. The 6.5m deep units are arranged in a ring around a 24m diameter atrium with a central service core. The plan, notionally divided into 12 segments, allows for design flexibility in the size and number of units. The smallest units occupy two segments either horizontally or vertically.
Natural light is projected into the atrium by articulated mirrors mounted at the top of the tower. Vertically, the apartments are arranged in three blocks separated by two storey slots with mezzanine viewing decks.
Externally the tower is wrapped in a diaphanous glass skin to temper fresh air and provide protection against wind, rain and noise allowing all the apartments to be naturally ventilated.
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