The ShiftHouse
The ShiftHouse provides a working model for notions of adaptability, living architecture, urban densification, and sustainable strategies. The design is intended to include a primary residence as well as a two-bedroom laneway house, both of which were shaped by considering implications of natural ventilation, day lighting, privacy, and green spaces. Adaptability is achieved through a modular design, as well as through the inclusion of an unfinished basement into which further expansion can take place. The floor plans are open and easily modifiable.
A SHIFT
The project is defined by several large interior and exterior living walls intersecting both structures, merging the houses with nature and extending them into the landscape. This simple gesture expands, and acts in continuity with, the public realm. The addition of a subtle angle, cutting through the site, increases light capture and breaks up the space while connecting the main residence with the laneway house. To achieve a feeling of awe the house reveals itself through the compression of spaces in a series of crescendos. The compression of the valley in the butterfly roof maintains a comfortable human scale before rising above and opening up views to the surrounding natural landscape. The elevations are layered and shaped to filter the high summer sun while allowing the winter sun to penetrate deeply into the interior.
SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES
The project will be sustainable through the use of living walls, green roofs, and urban gardens; providing residents with flexible, adaptable spaces; thermal mass storage through the thick living walls; rain water harvesting and storage; grey water collection; photo-voltaic panels; radiant in-floor heating; natural ventilation and day lighting.
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