Canadian architecture studio Partisans has completed a house with an undulating yellow brick facade designed to look pixelated in Toronto, Ontario.
Named Canvas House after the homeowner's art collection, the 5,220-square foot (485-square metre) residence is "reminiscent of a painting, using brick as a medium," said Partisans co-founder Alex Josephson.
Canvas House features a rolling brick facade
The 2022 design is a contemporary alternative to the yellow brick Georgian homes of the neighbourhood ? which were popularised in Toronto from the 1920s to 1940s by Canadian architect John MacIntosh Lyle.
The box-shaped homes are in a Tudor revival style and feature a centre hallway plan.
The bricks are choreographed to convey movement Partisans designed this facade to be "formally performative" in its context. Inspired by the client's Larry Poons paintings, the bricks are choreographed to convey movement.
"One of the inspirations behind our modular approach started with voxels and pixels that not only can move in three dimensions but, by dint of their shadows," Josephson told Dezeen.
Curved details appear in the staircase's sculpted handrail
"That's why it isn't just the overall wave but rather a flickering of light through the shadows of the pixel bond pattern, which we can call voxel-bond, a new type of brick bond informed by the technology of our era."
The sculpted facade features three apertures: a square glazed opening along the parapet...