项目名称：罗克斯伯勒住宅

地点：多伦多，加拿大

设计团队：gh3*

建筑面积：2690 ft²

竣工时间：2022年

摄影：Raymond Chow

设计特色：

项目 - 位于多伦多南罗斯戴尔历史保护区，gh3*建筑事务所巧妙地将一座20世纪20年代的爱德华式住宅改造成一个连接历史保护与极简设计理念的当代住宅。罗克斯伯勒住宅的翻新巧妙地解决了尊重严格的遗产保护限制与满足客户现代化需求之间的复杂挑战。

该项目最独特的特点是其经过后部改造，两个新的砖砌结构——一个两层的扩建部分和一个多功能车库——创造出一个私密的庭院花园。建筑师为这些元素采用了手工模制的砖块，保持与周边原有砖石立面的视觉和谐。在可持续发展方面，他们将原有房屋的横梁回收利用于车库建造，在新旧结构之间建立了材料上的对话。

在室内，gh3*在不改变原有功能布局的情况下重新构想了空间流动性。一层的重新组织围绕着沿西墙的连续走廊展开，该走廊融入了原有的彩色玻璃窗，这些窗户从其原有背景中解放出来，创造出抽象的构图。这些不同的开口产生了全天候的光影变化韵律，为室内空间注入活力。

这次翻新通过元素化的形式提升了极简美学——皂石厨房岛台、拱形的储藏室前厅以及通往主卧室的深拱形走廊。这些简洁而有力的几何干预统一了空间和功能，同时创造出视觉上的趣味。

特别值得注意的是后部扩建部分的新家庭入口，由拱形结构庇护，精心放置的天窗和窗户模糊了室内外空间的界限。这种与庭院花园的巧妙连接强化了该项目对建筑和景观的整体性方法。

罗克斯伯勒住宅体现了gh3*标志性的设计理念——抽象和提炼，创造出材料连续性、精确比例和细致光线调控的空间，同时保持对多伦多建筑遗产的深刻尊重。

团队 - gh3*成立于2006年，已发展成为加拿大最具创新性的建筑设计事务所之一，在建筑、城市规划和景观设计领域获得同行认可和众多奖项。由创始人兼创意总监Pat Hanson领导，该事务所在各种类型和规模的项目中建立了设计完整性的声誉。

事务所的跨学科团队，包括主要领导Raymond Chow、Elise Shelley和Joel Di Giacomo，以现代主义者对秩序和社会可能性的敏感度，同时保持强烈的环保意识，处理每个项目。这种方法形成了一个令人印象深刻的作品组合，从私密住宅项目到复杂的市政基础设施。

gh3*的作品获得国际赞誉，包括多个总督勋章。该事务所在2020年被Fast Company评为全球二十大最具创新性公司之一，表彰其在城市基础设施方面的开创性工作。

工作室的设计理念强调在城市环境中创造建筑与景观之间的有意义连接。他们的项目展示了超越纯功能需求的承诺，将实用需求与诗意表达相结合，创造美学上具有冲击力的环境，提升日常体验。

通过以客户为中心的方法和环境责任，gh3*继续创造出能激发市民自豪感的空间感染力场所，同时推进当代建筑中可持续设计实践的讨论。

Project Name: Roxborough House

Location: Toronto, Canada

Design Team: gh3*

Total Floor Area: 2,690 ft²

Completion: 2022

Photography: Raymond Chow

Feature:

Project - Situated in Toronto's South Rosedale heritage conservation district, gh3* architects have masterfully transformed an Edwardian home from the 1920s into a contemporary dwelling that bridges historical preservation with minimalist design sensibilities. The Roxborough House renovation navigates the complex challenge of respecting stringent heritage restrictions while fulfilling the client's desire for modernization.

The project's most distinctive feature is its thoughtful rear intervention, where two new brick-clad structures—a two-story addition and a multipurpose garage—create an intimate courtyard garden. The architects employed hand-molded brick for these elements, maintaining visual harmony with the neighborhood's original masonry facades. In a sustainable gesture, reclaimed joists from the existing house were repurposed for the garage construction, establishing a material dialogue between old and new.

Inside, gh3* has reimagined the spatial flow without altering the original program. The ground floor's reorganization revolves around a continuous hallway along the western wall, which incorporates original leaded windows now liberated from their previous contexts to create an abstract composition. These varied openings produce a rhythmic play of daylight throughout the day, animating the interior spaces.

The renovation elevates the minimalist aesthetic through elemental forms—a soapstone kitchen island, an arched ante-room pantry, and a deeply vaulted hallway leading to the principal bedroom. These simple yet powerful geometric interventions unify space and function while creating visual intrigue.

Particularly noteworthy is the rear addition's new family entrance, sheltered by a vaulted structure with strategically placed skylights and windows that blur the boundary between interior and exterior spaces. This thoughtful connection to the courtyard garden reinforces the project's holistic approach to architecture and landscape.

The Roxborough House exemplifies gh3*'s signature design philosophy of abstraction and distillation, creating spaces of material continuity, precise proportions, and carefully calibrated light—all while maintaining a profound respect for Toronto's architectural heritage.

Design Team - Founded in 2006, gh3* has established itself as one of Canada's most innovative architectural design practices, earning peer recognition and numerous prestigious awards for its distinctive approach to the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and landscape. Led by Founding Principal and Creative Director Pat Hanson (BFA, MArch, OAA, AAA, FRAIC), the firm has cultivated a reputation for design integrity across diverse typologies and scales.

The practice's interdisciplinary team, including key leaders Raymond Chow, Elise Shelley, and Joel Di Giacomo, approaches each project with a modernist sensibility toward order and social possibility, while maintaining a strong environmental consciousness. This methodology has resulted in an impressive portfolio spanning intimate residential projects to complex civic infrastructure.

gh3*'s work has garnered international acclaim, including multiple Governor General's Medals for projects such as the Stormwater Facility, Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool, and the Photographers Studio over a Boathouse. The firm's pioneering work in urban water infrastructure earned it recognition as one of the World's Twenty Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2020.

The studio's design philosophy emphasizes the creation of meaningful connections between architecture and landscape within urban contexts. Their projects demonstrate a commitment to transcending purely functional requirements, instead integrating pragmatic needs with poetic expression to create aesthetically impactful environments that enhance everyday experiences.

Through their client-centered approach and environmental responsibility, gh3* continues to produce spatially engaging places that inspire civic pride while advancing the discourse on sustainable design practices in contemporary architecture.