Located on a corner lot along a busy Toronto thoroughfare, this six-storey multi-unit residential building is defined by geometric clarity and bold colour. A mineral base of vertical, pigmented concrete panels establishes a resilient and tactile material presence at the pedestrian scale. Above, the upper levels are clad in painted corrugated metal, shingled at an oversized scale and carefully aligned with the Juliet balcony guards to create a unified façade language.
The envelope was conceived as a repeatable system, allowing the architectural expression to be deployed across a range of urban conditions while maintaining a strong and recognizable identity within the client’s growing portfolio of missing-middle residential buildings. This emphasis on modularity and replicability informed both the massing strategy and the planning logic, enabling adaptation to sites of varying scale and configuration.
At grade, the building engages the street through a flexible ground-floor space designed to accommodate either office or café use, contributing to the vitality and social life of the neighbourhood.
studio vaaro Team: Aleris Rodgers, Francesco Valente-Gorjup, Caleigh MacDonald
