一个最小但激进的建筑策略改变了南Rosedale的一个地标性爱德华式住宅。对历史上指定的Street House进行现代化改造的挑战,是由建筑师William Alexander Langton在1908年为Elenor Street夫人设计的,从一个单一的手术姿态开始,解开限制的正式计划,成为一个空间上流动的、充满光线的家,适合当代家庭生活。

A minimal yet radical architectural strategy transforms a landmark Edwardian residence in South Rosedale. The challenge of modernizing the historically designated Street House, designed by architect William Alexander Langton for Mrs. Elenor Street in 1908, began with a single surgical gesture that unlocks the constricted formal plan to become a spatially flowing, light-filled home, suited to contemporary family life.

针对特殊的原始细部设计,有两种方法可以调和新旧:剪裁(新旧并列,对比鲜明的划分)和共存(现代和历史细节的合并和共存,历史价值要求尊重恢复)。

Responding to the exceptional original detailing, two methods reconcile old and new: shearing (where old and new are juxtaposed and contrasted with sharp delineation) and co-existence (merging and co-existence of modern and historic details where historic merit calls for respectful reinstatement).

空间流动。房间和楼层之间的流畅连接是一个激进的、外科手术式的平面战略的雄心,它覆盖了一个分隔的配置,其仆人的宿舍和房子前后的正式划分仍然是另一个时代的残余。

现代化的L型爱德华计划的空间潜力,改造打开了房子的后面,降低了楼层,以释放自己的观点,并连接到一个新的庭院。在内部,它引入了一个流畅的内部空间流,通过一个充满光线的画廊将更正式的西翼与日常的东翼连接起来。一个白色楼梯的插入垂直连接,其雕塑般的现代形式利用爱德华时代的开口和比例作为光源和衬托。

Spatial Flow. Fluid connectivity between rooms and floors was the ambition of a radical, surgical planimetric strategy, which overwrites a compartmentalized configuration whose servants’ quarters and formal delineation between front and back of house remained vestiges of another era.

Modernizing the spatial potential of an L-shaped Edwardian plan, the transformation opens the back of the house and lowers the floor level to unlock views back on itself and connect to a new courtyard. Within, it introduces a fluid interior spatial flow connecting the more formal west wing to the everyday east wing through a light-filled gallery. The insertion of a white stair connects vertically, its sculptural modern form using the Edwardian openings and proportions as light source and foil.

剪切和对比,核心的手术行为是切除房子的外墙砖块。这种尖锐的划分使坚固的衔接砖的外观得以保留,而内部则变得简约,集中于光线、比例和体积等基本元素。这种 “切断 “是通过新的砖檐来表达的,它在视觉上解决了烟囱和二楼楼梯的问题,并漂浮在新旧之间的尖锐钢线之上。

Shearing and Contrast, The central surgical act is the excision of the exterior brick back wall of the house. This sharp delineation allows the robust articulated brick exterior to be retained, while the interior becomes reductionist and focuses on essential elements of light, proportion, and volume. This ‘shearing off’ is expressed through new brick soffits that visually resolve chimney and second-floor stairs and float above the sharp steel line between original and new.

砖砌外墙的下部被替换为超比例的玻璃墙,增强了与场地的联系。一个新的混凝土基座创造了一个新的两面庭院,使室外空间与室内空间保持一致。在室内,鲜明的对比元素包括薄如蝉翼的铝片,它从概念上切开了恢复的冠状饰物和壁板,以实现原始的全高开口,连接底层的正式房间。

选择性的启示和共存。在整个房子里,原始结构的精美构造层被揭示出来,然后被赞美。设计阐明了房子的吉祥历史的表面记录,以实现过去和现在之间充满光线的良好比例的平衡。某些特征被剥离成裸露的砖块,留下了过去的痕迹,证明该建筑多年来一直受到照顾和改造,每一代人都为独特的历史增加了自己的层次。

The lower part of brick exterior walls is replaced with super scaled glazed walls enhancing connectedness to the site. A new concrete plinth creates a new two-sided courtyard aligning the outdoor space with interiors. Within, sharply contrasting elements include razor thin-aluminum fins that notionally cut through restored crown moldings and wainscoting to achieve pristine full-height openings that connect the formal rooms of the ground floor.

Selective Revelation and Co-Existence. Throughout the house, the beautifully constructed layers of the original structure are revealed then celebrated. The design articulates the surface record of the house’s auspicious history, to achieve a light-filled well-proportioned balance between past and present. Certain features are stripped back to bare brick, with traces of the past left behind as evidence the building has been cared for and adapted over the years, with each generation adding its own layer to a unique history.

最能体现这一点的是北面的画廊墙面,它是以前的开口和楼层的重合体。改造后,砖托梁口袋、千斤顶拱门、黑砖串道等都没有被触及,还暴露出价值较低的出土原墙的黄色砖块。这种历史叙事被现代干预的更大尺度的透明开口冲淡了。

Most expressive of this is the north gallery wall, a palimpsest of previous openings and floor levels. The renovation leaves untouched brick joist pockets, a jack arch, a black brick stringcourse, and exposes the lesser-valued yellow brick of an unearthed original wall. This historical narrative is washed in light by larger-scaled transparent openings of the modern intervention.

Architects: gh3*
Photographs :Raymond Chow
Project Team : Pat Hanson, Diana Gerard, Louise Clavin, Raymond chow
City : Toronto
Country : Canada