Transformation of a Lost Vernacular in the Middle of a Big City

Anya Moryoussef Architect (AMA) inventively reconstructs a tiny home into an ethereal urban refuge - sustainably and economically facilitating a long-time resident to remain in her tight-knit community. The complete transformation of this unassuming single-storey worker’s cottage in Toronto’s historic "Tiny Town" has turned a run-down house into a luminous and ethereal refuge. The 112-year-old delicately proportioned, light-filled home, built on its original foundations, forms part of a vernacular – a turn-of-the-century housing typology that has almost completely disappeared from the city. The neighbourhood originally developed to house lower-income labourers and immigrants in the early 20th century, to date remains […]