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Echo House in Ottawa, Ontario by Kariouk Associates

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Article source: Kariouk Associates

Task: To marry eighty-four years of history by integrating a contemporary, open and functional living space inside a 1924 landmark that overlooks the Rideau Canal.

Project Challenge:

The starting point for this renovation was a modest Victorian home in poor condition, whose rooms with small windows and dark interior spaces were separated from one another, as was typical of homes built in an era when privacy was a cultural priority. In another gesture to Victorian public decorum, the arrangement of the existing interior spaces reinforced the antiquated ideal that work life and family life should be kept distinct.

Image Courtesy Photolux Studios

Architects: Kariouk Associates
Project: Echo House
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Project Dates: 2007 – 2009
General Contractor: G.M. French Construction (Pat Lambert)
Structural engineering: Leibe Engineering (James Diamond)
Photography: Photolux Studios (Christian Lalonde)
Lighting Design: Gabriel-Mackinnon (Philip Gabriel)
Woodwork: Gruber (Robert Gruber)

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Redeveloper Apartment in Ottawa, Ontario by Kariouk Associates

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Article source: Kariouk Associates

Re-developer Condominium

This project called for the rethinking of an 850 square-foot apartment on the seventeenth floor of a new condominium building in the city’s downtown core. The slogan employed by the developer for marketing this building championed the apartments as “…statements of modern, urban living.” This cliché of developers has come to describe small apartments that feature the very same suburban spatial logic of segregated spaces.

Images Courtesy Photolux Studio (Christian Lalonde)

Architect: Kariouk Associates
Name of Project: Redeveloper Apartment
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Project Dates: 2010-2011
Task: To re-develop a developer’s “model” condominium suite
Photography: Photolux Studio (Christian Lalonde)
Software used: Photoshop, FormZ, and AutoCAD

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Front to Back Infill in Ottawa, Canada by Colizza Bruni Architecture (designed using AutoCAD and SketchUp)

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Article source: Colizza Bruni Architecture

Front to back infill is an animated, front to back semi-detached which boasts two small yet spacious light-filled homes. The design was a collaboration of two architects, each designing one of the homes, and working together to fuse the two designs seamlessly into one another. The approach was to situate the two homes front to back instead of the traditional side to side. One home would face the street and engage the public realm, while the other would inhabit the private realm of the rear yard. Each unit is designed to take advantage of its exclusive position on the site resulting in two unique homes with their own distinctive character and personality.