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Skygarden House in Toronto
Sep 9, 2020
Skygarden House
Design: Dubbeldam Architecture + Design
Location: Toronto, Ontario

Situated on a narrow lot in an older Toronto neighbourhood, the Skygarden House designed by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design provides outdoor living spaces on multiple levels to address the owners? desire for a better connection to the home?s natural surroundings. The owners used to spend their weekends at a home in the country, located next to a stream and surrounded by trees. ?Our clients wanted to emulate this bucolic experience in their urban home; they expressed a strong desire for a sustainable home connected to its natural surroundings?, said principal Heather Dubbeldam.
Although the new house is only 2,420 square feet, it feels much larger?its rooms expand beyond the interior of the house to a series of highly useable outdoor spaces that enrich the domestic experience, each with its own unique character and varying level of privacy.

The rear yard is landscaped and features a generously scaled thermally treated ash wood deck, and a few steps down, another zone defined by granite pavers is planted with a row of honey locust trees that offer dappled light and shade in summer. The plant material was selected to provide visual interest year round.

Even the existing porch at the front of the house is remade into a private outdoor dining room enclosed by a fiv...