The challenge: how do you maintain the character and rhythm of neighbourhoods while increasing density and housing supply?
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Smart Density has reimagined the traditional single-family detached household. Simultaneously, keeping the same built form, scale and massing of a typical detached house but increasing its density to accommodate eight separate units. To achieve this feat Smart Density designed a 3-storey building (and half a basement storey) that accommodates 2-2 bedroom units on every floor. The building shares a staircase and elevator between all the floors with a communal courtyard for social gatherings, additional natural light and improved circulation. But taking advantage of the courtyard’s positioning, the layout allows for an additional bedroom in each unit that utilizes the courtyard as a mean to introduce direct natural light in these bedrooms. Therefore, this building contains 2 and 3 b/r 8 units in total.
This creative design introduces a missing middle typology into the Yellowbelt while fitting perfectly within the scale of the neighbourhood almost seamlessly blending into the rest of the street.Â