A Concept House that engages the five human senses is this year?s feature exhibit at IDS Toronto by VFA Architecture + Design in collaboration with Hummingbird Hill Homes + Construction, and Victoria Taylor Landscape Architect.
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Drawing from ideas inherently examined within VFA?s existing projects, the Concept House borrows from the essential qualities of each design for an elevated user experience.
Open from January 16 to 19, 2020, RESET Home explores a built environment that accentuates all of our five senses through: sight, by the implementation of healthy indoor lighting tied to circadian rhythm; sound, optimized through acoustical privacy and healthy sound introduction; smell, improved through use of better materials and air filtration; touch, enhanced through experience of space, thermal comfort and energy efficiency; and taste, improved by water purification, strategic hydration and built in vegetable gardens. Photo Courtesy of VFA Architecture
Adopting the popularized ?open concept? plan of the contemporary home, the IDS installation looks at a return to the intelligence and site-specific adaptability of early dwelling styles.
Users are encouraged to reconnect to one another by gathering around the kitchen island. Where the original hearth of the primitive home was an open fire for cooking and heating, the kitchen island as the new hearth and centre of the home is multi-elemental, whose function is as social and ecological, as it is...