A house as a built dichotomy. KASA realizes a new home for a young couple and their growing family on a double-wide parcel in Calgary's Mount Pleasant community. The home's unique shape is a direct reflection of the contrasting relationship between internal public and private spaces.
Clad in black masonry, the ground floor is heavily punctuated with large openings. The traditional kitchen, dining, and living spaces are combined into a larger expansive living area that opens to both the front street and the south garden.
The upper volume, clad in cedar shake, contains the private spaces and sleeping quarters. The asymmetrically pitched roof has been carved out to create large extruded lightwells and tall 16-foot vaulted ceilings. Designed to integrate into an existing contextual neighbourhood and to maximize natural lighting and exterior amenity, KASA suggests a more considered approach to rebuilding Calgary's inner-city communities.
