Batay-Csorba Architects

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Batay-Csorba Architects
25. August 2017
Front Facade Detail (Photo: Doublespace Photography; all images courtesy of v2com)

Client: Mazenga Building Group
Location: Toronto, Canada
Architect: Batay-Csorba Architects
Team: Jodi Batay-Csorba, Andrew Batay-Csorba
Area: 16,000 sf
Completion: 2016
 

Corner View (Photo: Doublespace Photography)

Located within Toronto’s Leaside neighbourhood, the development occupies a prime site along Eglinton Avenue. This street is poised to be one of Toronto’s new public transit corridors with the completion of the new LRT line. Designed with family life in mind, these contemporary residences offer generous living and dining rooms and spacious kitchens intended for the active cook. Each features three bedrooms, including a serene master suite that occupies an entire level, a flexible loft space perfect for family gatherings as well as 4 large completely private terraces each totalling 500–600 sf per unit.

Front Facade (Photo: Doublespace Photography)

The windows on the front street-facing facades reference an inverted model of the traditional bay window, found on much of the city's Victorian housing stock. The perceived carving of the windows further emphasize the monolithic nature of the masonry volume. While the perspectivally oriented windows animate the facade and work to maximize natural light and ventilation throughout each floor, while extending visual limits of the house to embrace the primary view corridors of the site. Each residence establishes a continually unfolding relationship between its interior, exterior private garden spaces and the sky beyond.

Facade Detail (Photo: Doublespace Photography)
Inverted Bay Window Detail (Photo: Doublespace Photography)
Living Room (Photo: Doublespace Photography)
Dining Room (Photo: Doublespace Photography)
Kitchen (Photo: Doublespace Photography)
Axonometric (Drawing: Batay-Csorba Architects)
Second Floor Plan (Drawing: Batay-Csorba Architects)
Third Floor Plan (Drawing: Batay-Csorba Architects)
Fourth Floor Plan (Drawing: Batay-Csorba Architects)

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