Reset Home
Architecture Small projects Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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1. front install 12436 px 6008 px 33 MB A3 print |
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2. kitchen 8749 px 4907 px 16 MB A3 print |
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3. front install from side 8984 px 6390 px 42 MB A3 print |
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4. wooden slat detail on façade 6732 px 8984 px 46 MB A3 print |
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5. counter elongating into courtyard 8919 px 6683 px 31 MB A3 print |
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6. courtyard 6693 px 8931 px 53 MB A3 print |
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7. edible plant wall 8953 px 5766 px 41 MB A3 print |
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8. rear façade up close 8937 px 5515 px 38 MB A3 print |
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9. entrance into kitchen 6536 px 8484 px 24 MB A3 print |
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10. courtyard with pathway 13718 px 6680 px 64 MB A3 print |
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11. rear façade 9962 px 4819 px 29 MB A3 print |
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12. view onto bedroom 5380 px 6701 px 34 MB A3 print |
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13. rear façade with landscape 3764 px 4758 px 9 MB A4 print |
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14. juxtaposing of materials on front façade 4745 px 5551 px 18 MB A3 print |
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15. water feature next to plant wall 6619 px 8833 px 35 MB A3 print |
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17. corridor 5940 px 7372 px 25 MB A3 print |
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18. view of side façade 7011 px 3969 px 14 MB A3 print |
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19. kitchen 8833 px 6619 px 31 MB A3 print |
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20. side view of exterior 4873 px 6405 px 17 MB A3 print |
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21. kitchen counter extending into courtyard 4624 px 6742 px 20 MB A3 print |
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22. render 2500 px 1406 px 3 MB Print - Low res only |
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23. render 3000 px 1687 px 5 MB Print - Low res only |
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Description
A concept house that celebrates and holistically engages the five human senses was on display from January 16 - 19, 2020 as this year’s feature exhibit at IDS Toronto by VFA Architecture + Design in creative collaboration with Hummingbird Hill Homes + Construction and Victoria Taylor Landscape Architect.
Drawing from ideas inherently examined within VFA’s existing repertoire of work, the exhibit entitled Reset Home, borrows from the most essential qualities of each project to bring together all the ideals of home design for an elevated user experience.
In a society hyper focused on image, we often eschew functional design for aesthetic formalities and gestures. This architectural installation explored a built environment that equally accentuates all of our five senses where human health and wellness is amplified through: sight, by the implementation of healthy indoor lighting tied to circadian rhythm; sound, optimized through acoustical privacy and healthy sound introduction; smell, improved through use of better materials and air filtration; touch,, enhanced through experience of space, thermal comfort and energy efficiency; and taste, improved by water purification, strategic hydration and built in vegetable gardens.
Adopting the popular “open concept”plan of the contemporary home, the IDS installation looked at a return to the intelligence and site-specific adaptability of early dwelling styles. Users are encouraged to reconnect to one another by gathering around the kitchen island. Where the original hearth of the primitive home was an open fire for cooking and heating, the kitchen island is the new hearth and centre of the home is multi-elemental, whose function is as social and ecological, as it is practical. Reset Home also responded to privacy and outdoor accessibility; weaving glazing, solid walls, partial walls, and other openings. Graduated transparency in one axis is framed by opacity in another.
The exhibit offered an opportunity for visitors to explore contemporary living through sequences in domesticity: arriving home, leaving home, going to bed, waking up, eating, socializing. By organizing materials, lighting, and spatial proportions around these activities, the home itself becomes utilitarian to the occupant, augmenting and enhancing the experience of ritual and comfort.
Details
| Project size | 1265 ft2 |
| Site size | 3025 ft2 |
| Completion date | 2020 |
| Building levels | 1 |
Project team
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Vanessa Fong | |
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VFA Architecture + Design | Architect |
| Hummingbird Hill Homes | Builder | |
| VTLA Landscape Architecture | Landscape Architect |