Integral House | Shim-Sutcliffe Architects
2012 AIA Honor Awards for interior architecture Toronto / Canada / 2011
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The project integrates many sustainable features into the site and building. A field of vertical geothermal pipes supplies heating and cooling for the entire project including the main concert hall/performance space for 150 – 200 people. A lush green roof is centrally located and a visual feature from many parts of the project. The vertical wooden fins provide sun shading from the exterior as well as contributing to the acoustical performance of the concert hall/performance space. Materials have been carefully selected for their aesthetic contribution as well as their enduring qualities based on life cycle costing calculations.
Notes of Interest
The Integral House creates a place for architecture, music, and performance located at the threshold between Toronto’s urban fabric and its extensive natural ravine system. In the project’s program brief, our client clearly articulated his dual passion for mathematics and music and his interest in curvilinear shapes resulting in spatially complex volumes.
Viewed from its residential neighborhood, one reads a two story building with a grounded wood base sitting below a translucent gently shaped etched glass skin. The wooden base dissolves into oak clad fins echoing the undulating contour lines of the river valley and the winding pathways of the native forest of oaks, beaches, and maples. The main concert hall/performance space is located a full floor below your entry level and becomes intertwined with the verdant ravine landscape.
The project integrates many sustainable features into the site and building. A field of vertical geothermal pipes supplies heating and cooling for the entire project including the main concert hall/performance space for 150 – 200 people. A lush green roof is centrally located and a visual feature from many parts of the project. The vertical wooden fins provide sun shading from the exterior as well as contributing to the acoustical performance of the concert hall/performance space. Materials have been carefully selected for their aesthetic contribution as well as their enduring qualities based on life cycle costing calculations.
Notes of Interest
The Integral House creates a place for architecture, music, and performance located at the threshold between Toronto’s urban fabric and its extensive natural ravine system. In the project’s program brief, our client clearly articulated his dual passion for mathematics and music and his interest in curvilinear shapes resulting in spatially complex volumes.
Viewed from its residential neighborhood, one reads a two story building with a grounded wood base sitting below a translucent gently shaped etched glass skin. The wooden base dissolves into oak clad fins echoing the undulating contour lines of the river valley and the winding pathways of the native forest of oaks, beaches, and maples. The main concert hall/performance space is located a full floor below your entry level and becomes intertwined with the verdant ravine landscape.
The project integrates many sustainable features into the site and building. A field of vertical geothermal pipes supplies heating and cooling for the entire project including the main concert hall/performance space for 150 – 200 people. A lush green roof is centrally located and a visual feature from many parts of the project. The vertical wooden fins provide sun shading from the exterior as well as contributing to the acoustical performance of the concert hall/performance space. Materials have been carefully selected for their aesthetic contribution as well as their enduring qualities based on life cycle costing calculations.
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The project integrates many sustainable features into the site and building. A field of vertical geothermal pipes supplies heating and cooling for the entire project including the main concert hall/performance space for 150 – 200 people. A lush green roof is centrally located and a visual feature from many parts of the project. The vertical wooden fins provide sun shading from the exterior as well as contributing to the acoustical performance of the concert hall/performance space. Materials...
- Year 2011
- Work finished in 2011
- Status Completed works
- Type Concert Halls
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