Tesseract House by Phaedrus Studio
Designed in 2018 by Phaedrus Studio, this contemporary two-story house is located in Toronto, Canada.
Description by Phaedrus Studio
Located in Toronto?s western lakeside streetcar suburb, this single-family residence proves contextual while owing little to convention and serving as the antithesis to recent vernaculars. By simply and unconventionally engaging the immediate context this contemporary alternative has an impactful, yet unimposing outward presence. The ground floor?s elongated footprint rests on a plinth, a nod to quintessential area home; horizontality further emphasized by continuously delineating between floors. From this, varying degrees of articulation are born through a series of light penetrating carves in the elongated mass and a nuanced game of push-and-pull. This creates a broken-down massing informed by the surroundings while allowing for an intuitive understanding of exterior and interior spaces to begin to form. The heavy less articulate steel-clad massing of the long elevations strategically carries to the front and back, in contrast to the cedar-clad apertures they interlock with to varying degrees; balancing privacy and connectivity. This interplay of form and material soften the bold steel-clad volumes and the playful statements of the apertures, anchoring them back into the simpler form with a range of texture and warmth visible in the existing fabric. Appearing modest to the passersby, restraint loosens towards the rear façade...
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