Ravine Residence

Toronto, Canada
Photo © Ben Rahn
Photo © Ben Rahn
Photo © Ben Rahn
Photo © Ben Rahn
Architects
Hariri Pontarini Architects
Year
2006

This residence employs two volumes with carefully choreographed openings that address the public street while maintaining the importance of domestic intimacy and privacy. The back of the house takes advantage of its ravine setting with a design of transparency that maximizes the natural light and provides natural landscape vistas. Employing a vocabulary of enduring materials of French limestone, roughcast stucco, and teak windows, the house underscores the client’s desire to create a generational home.

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