United Front: Union, Vancouver, British Columbia
A quirky heritage home was the basis for a five-unit project in Vancouver?s Strathcona neighbourhood.
ARCHITECT Marianne Amodio + Harley Grusko Architects (MA+HG)
PHOTOS Janis Nicolay
Viewing life through a pandemic lens means that, when encountering any new space, I quickly imagine what it might be like to isolate there for months on end? possibly with children, roommates, or parents. The design of our cities, and in particular our housing, has never felt more important to both our physical and mental health. Meanwhile, the global pandemic has revealed these two goals to be frustratingly at odds. Physical health depends on keeping our distance, while mental health begs for close contact. Can we design for both"
Healthy social connections are central to the work of MA+HG Architects, a Vancouver-based studio led by partners Marianne Amodio and Harley Grusko. The duo is partial to the term ?social density,? a phrase that?s used in psychology to represent the number of people in a given space, and thus the number of interpersonal interactions likely to occur. In recent years, Amodio and Grusko have made a name for themselves delivering unconventional housing solutions that promote social interaction, from co-housing to micro-units and missing-middle-scale developments. In typical multifamily developments, outsized importance is placed on privacy?ensuring everyone gets their own unimpeded sliver of sky or ground, often at the expense of neighbourly connections. At Union, M...
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