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ART COLLECTORS RENOVATION
ART COLLECTORS RENOVATION
Toronto, Canada
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Other Projects by ANTHONY PROVENZANO ARCHITECTS
ART COLLECTORS RENOVATION
Toronto, Canada
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
The Art Collector's Renovation was a project that started when the clients acquired the ‘other side’ of the semi detached home they lived in.
A decade passed after an initial ‘connection’ renovation and when the clients purchased an art piece by Rirkrit Tiravanija, APA was contacted, as it precipitated a major architectural renovation at the rear of the house and a landscape intervention centred about the aforementioned art piece.
The Landscape intervention inserted two pools (swimming + reflecting) on the axis of the art piece and added extensive limestone paving and planting.
Architecturally, the idea was to address the schizophrenic remnants of the houses former life and heighten the connection to the garden and art piece. The aim was to make it look like one thing and ‘eliminate’ the visual barriers between the home and the garden.
To that end, the largest pieces of glass available were used; the glazing on the west side has custom curtain wall sections recessed into the floor + ceiling + walls and the corners are glued together to eliminate corner mullions. The result minimizes the visual noise and maximizes (to the millimeter) the amount of glass.
The entirety of the garden façade was reclad in zinc and in order to eliminate lines on the façade; custom zinc details were invented to envelope the curtain wall mullions – the result minimizes the visual noise and maximizes (to the millimeter) the amount of zinc.
A unifying single parapet height extends over the entirety of the rear façade and both balconies were rebuilt to share some architectonic language and have as seamless a connection to the garden/art piece as possible.
The aim was to make this home look like a unified singular work that was created from (what was clearly) two separate homes.
A decade passed after an initial ‘connection’ renovation and when the clients purchased an art piece by Rirkrit Tiravanija, APA was contacted, as it precipitated a major architectural renovation at the rear of the house and a landscape intervention centred about the aforementioned art piece.
The Landscape intervention inserted two pools (swimming + reflecting) on the axis of the art piece and added extensive limestone paving and planting.
Architecturally, the idea was to address the schizophrenic remnants of the houses former life and heighten the connection to the garden and art piece. The aim was to make it look like one thing and ‘eliminate’ the visual barriers between the home and the garden.
To that end, the largest pieces of glass available were used; the glazing on the west side has custom curtain wall sections recessed into the floor + ceiling + walls and the corners are glued together to eliminate corner mullions. The result minimizes the visual noise and maximizes (to the millimeter) the amount of glass.
The entirety of the garden façade was reclad in zinc and in order to eliminate lines on the façade; custom zinc details were invented to envelope the curtain wall mullions – the result minimizes the visual noise and maximizes (to the millimeter) the amount of zinc.
A unifying single parapet height extends over the entirety of the rear façade and both balconies were rebuilt to share some architectonic language and have as seamless a connection to the garden/art piece as possible.
The aim was to make this home look like a unified singular work that was created from (what was clearly) two separate homes.
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