Flipped House, Toronto Building, Real Estate, Residential Interior Design, Property, Architecture Images
Flipped House in Toronto
Residential Development in Canada – design by Atelier RZLBD
23 Nov 2017
Flipped House
Design: Atelier RZLBD
Location: Toronto, Canada
Flipped House

The product of a gut renovation and second-storey addition to an existing brick bungalow on the south-west edge of the Knob-Hill Park in a residential neighbourhood in Eglinton East on the border between Toronto and Scarborough, Flipped House is a two-storey property designed for a developer looking to offer real estate buyers a modern, turnkey home in a neighbourhood dominated by more traditional architecture.

The project gets its name from its unconventional ?flipped? layout. While a typical dwelling keeps all public-facing spaces confined to its main floor, with private areas like bedrooms sequestered upstairs, Flipped House instead adopts a configuration that divides its public and private zones on either side of a vertical plane. As a result, the home?s den, kitchen, dining, and living rooms are all located on its street-facing northeast side, while the house?s three bedrooms span both levels of the building?s more secluded southwestern end.
The home?s varying ceiling heights work to communicate this symbolic dividing line. The linked first-floor kitchen and dining room are double-height spaces, with the ceiling then dropping down to single-storey height as one enters the hallway mo...