Wedge House is a project designed by NEO Architecture Inc.. As the old railways crisscrossed and bisected our City, they did so with their usual efficiency and urban apathy, leaving many orphaned and irregular parcels of land in their wake. One such area is located at the interruption of the street line where it abruptly converges with a spur line. The once essential but now abandoned infrastructure has since been repurposed into a beautiful amenity and graciously granted back to the public in the form of the Iron Horse Trail; a pedestrian pathway traversing Kitchener and Waterloo. Photography by Langen Studios, Colleen Whitney.

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But what of the misshapen and unusable misfit property that remained – not unlike so many others, which often seem to be the only ones left for development. Applying the usual orthogonal mind-set and additive methodology to this triangular leftover would be the difficulty, and what would prevent others from even making an attempt.
In order to push the apparent limits of its size and suitability, and ultimately realize the full potential of this Site, an inverted and more subtractive approach was used instead.
It began with a three-dimensional extrusion of the entire location up to maximum height. Removed from it then, were the various front yard, side yard and peculiar radial corner setbacks required, with the exception of a rear yard setback not ...