ShadowBox, Toronto, Ontario Modern Home, Canadian Interior Images, Canada Architecture Award
ShadowBox in Toronto
Oct 12, 2020
ShadowBox
Design: Johnson Chou Inc.
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Canadian interdisciplinary design firm Johnson Chou Inc. was recently awarded the Interiors: Residential 2020 AZ Award from AZURE Magazine for their project, ShadowBox.

“A conceptually driven project, ShadowBox is executed in a pure and unified way. The interior atmosphere is distinct and extreme.”
– Stephanie Davison of Davidson Rafailidis (2020 Juror)

ShadowBox is an exploration of the essence of architecture: to enable the witnessing of the passage of time by capturing the elusive play of light and shadow, and to engender a heightened sense of movement through varying spatial scales and experiences. This includes the expansion and compression of single, double, and triple-height spaces, and through one?s engagement of interior elements such as bridges and stairs. The house is configured to capture the ever-changing light and shadow effects in various areas of the residence. The shadows cast in the interior reveal the juxtaposition between the permanence of the architecture and the ephemeral of the natural.
The residence was envisioned as an instrument for the appreciation of the profound ephemerality of time. The interior walls act as a blank canvas capturing the shadows of the abstracted forms and the movement, for example, of trees swaying in a bree...