A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
Primary Bedroom with soft light from north-facing window. Art by Ingrid Weyland, Topographies of Fragility XXIII & XXV. Curated by Pearl Rowe.
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A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
A smooth, sculpted continuous white oak wood handrail guides one from the public floors up to the private spaces where the rooms support the activities of the family and reflect how they want to live.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
The living room at the ground floor is connected with the second-floor kids lounge room – where entertaining guests of all generations can happen together, but separately.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
A central skylight sits atop the central stair washing bright daylight deep into the center of the long floor plate. The operable skylights enable warm air to passively ventilate out of the house during the warmer months, by way of the chimney effect.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
The primary bedroom opens up to a new 3rd floor terrace that overlooks the back garden andthe green roof of the garage.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
An urban home re-designed to support a less formal and more family-focused contemporary life, thoughtfully detailed to cradle the everyday.
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Doublespace Photography
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A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
Site Plan
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A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
Floor Plans: Basement, Ground, Second Floors
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A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
Floor Plans: Third Floor, Roof
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A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
Elevations - Rear + Side
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Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
Sections
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A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
Elevations - Front and Side
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Toward Carbon Neutrality: An Innovative Design Partnership Launches a More Sustainable Concrete Brick
NEUF + Webster + Permacon
DUAL Concrete brick, Metric Jumbo format, Zurich / Petra / Belfast colours
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NEUF architect(e)s
Toward Carbon Neutrality: An Innovative Design Partnership Launches a More Sustainable Concrete Brick
NEUF + Webster + Permacon
William Webster, President Webster & Fils, Lucas Vallon, President Permacon and Hugo Gagnon, Partner Architect and Sustainability Manager at NEUF (from left to right)
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Virginie Gosselin
Toward Carbon Neutrality: An Innovative Design Partnership Launches a More Sustainable Concrete Brick
NEUF + Webster + Permacon
DUAL Concrete brick, Metric Jumbo format, Zurich colour
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NEUF architect(e)s
Toward Carbon Neutrality: An Innovative Design Partnership Launches a More Sustainable Concrete Brick
NEUF + Webster + Permacon
Manufacturing processes for the DUAL concrete brick at PERMACON plants
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Virginie Gosselin
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