Opposite House by Atelier RZLBD
The Opposite House designed by Atelier RZLBD, is a commissioned private residence located on the Scarborough Bluffs, closer to the east edge of the Greater Toronto Area.
The clients, a professional couple who both work from home and enjoy an active home entertainment lifestyle, were looking for a modern dwelling that would offer everything they might need and more, including enough space to transition into, if their family grows at a later time.
The new build sits partly on an old bungalow?s footprint, close to a quiet back-street, with a 2.7 acre site sloping down to the shore of Lake Ontario. To the northern street side, the house presents a purposely low, dark-brick profile ? just a single, unobtrusive 146-foot long storey [equal to the length of an Airbus A321, the most efficient single-aisle jetliner ever built]; its stretched fuselage ? measuring 146 feet], allowing for an unimpeded lake view from all points even in the north end of the property. To the southern lakefront, the home?s face opens into a 10-foot curtain wall, lozenged in white. The house?s interior is 6,400 sq-ft; though massive in size, it feels quite human in scale, the result of the space?s precise geometric parsing, something the architect refers to as ?mathematical poetry.? Both outside and in, the Opposite House is at once familiar yet different, spectacular yet comfortable, private as well as public ? presenting a study in subtly rendered juxtapositions. Two concepts ar...
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