Pixel House

Pixel House is for a young family with two children.

This family is very interested in the larger community and plans on sharing their exterior spaces with the community.

They intend to create a day care for neighbourhood children.

In addition to being a house, this structure will end up also functioning as a community center.

While the public and private territories are ambiguous, the end condition is the point at which the relationship between the building and the landscape is clearest.

The entire row of houses can be read as an object/field relationship between the building and the landscape.

This opposition between formal clarity and territorial ambiguity requires a very different strategy than with the infill condition, particularly because the client is interested in breaking down the public private opposition.

The architects chose to break down the row into fragments rather than just extending the "wall of houses to the end of the site, by placing the main house at the western end of the site.

This allows a bleeding between the front and back spaces and creates an outdoor space open to the street within the depth of the row house.

The relationship between the landscape and the building is also questioned because the main house volume is removed from the row and also softened and rounded to be