Stacked in Canada

Modular midrise housing

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    “A leap in development is required” in Fifth Holcim Awards – Sustainable Construction 2017/2018

    Whether 6 one-bedrooms, 3 two-bedrooms, two family apartments, or a 200-square-meter “sky villa” – very much is possible, and very little has to be permanent.

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    Modular midrise housing, Vancouver, Canada

    Platforms For Life – Transferability and making of a socially viable environment. The proposed buildings bring significant density and micro communities to urban infill sites, as small as a single family house lot, providing an alternative scale (the missing middle) of medium density development while counteracting the typical dichotomy between high rise and low rise low density living. The building is designed to create transitional massing to mediate scale while catalyzing community.

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    Modular midrise housing, Vancouver, Canada

    How can we synthesize and manage the complexities required of a system with the objective to co-evolve with the forces of societal change in order to create buildings with lasting usefulness while overcoming the complete risk averseness and resulting lack of innovation in development, planning, financing and construction? Through synthesis, digital parametric control and platform systems technology we are creating choice and predictability where there are typically one-offs and uncertainty.

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    “A leap in development is required” in Fifth LafargeHolcim Awards – Sustainable Construction 2017/2018

    The adaptable timber panelized construction allows for versatility in unit layouts and the building mass, creating a variegated expression.

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    Modular midrise housing, Vancouver, Canada

    Proposed MONAD_R prototype – to be built – City of Vancouver’s Rental100 affordable housing program.

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    Modular midrise housing, Vancouver, Canada

    People/Innovation – Adaptable cluster for broad range of homes and community functions.

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    Modular midrise housing, Vancouver, Canada

    Community – Redefined courtyard typology with vertical gardens – Community Roofs + Urban.

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    Modular midrise housing, Vancouver, Canada

    Future Iteration – Empowering people and urban communities with broadly shared infrastructure.

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    Modular midrise housing, Vancouver, Canada

    Planet – Eco-Sys – Renewable energy, net zero and passive house.

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    Modular midrise housing, Vancouver, Canada

    Prosperity – Scalability, adaptability and transferability from 3-12 stories and 10-100m lot width.

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    Modular midrise housing, Vancouver, Canada

    Innovation – Creation of software program for interactive parametric direct Design-to Fabrication.

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    Modular midrise housing, Vancouver, Canada

    Innovation – EcoSys – Adaptable prefabricated cluster components using machined mass timber panels.

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    LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for North America prize handover ceremony, Chicago

    Winners of the Holcim Awards Silver 2017 (l-r): Cynthia Wilson, Oliver Lang and James Ko for a modular midrise housing project in Vancouver.

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    Holcim Awards 2017 for North America prize handover ceremony, Chicago

    Presentation to the Holcim Awards Silver winners (l-r): Member of all five regional Awards juries, Marc Angélil, Professor of Architecture & Design, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich); Pascal Casanova, Member of the Executive Committee of Holcim responsible for North America including Mexico; Oliver Lang, Cynthia Wilson and James Ko winners of the Silver Award for a modular midrise housing project in Vancouver; René Thibault, CEO LafargeHolcim Western Canada.

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    LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for North America prize handover ceremony, Chicago

    Holcim Awards Gold, Silver and Bronze winning teams: Eric Mahoney, Haibin Tan, Constance Bodurow and Will Bright (Gold); Frano Violich, Shawna Meyer and Sheila Kennedy from Kennedy & Violich Architecture (Bronze); and Oliver Lang, Cynthia Wilson and James Ko from LWPAC + Intelligent City (Silver).

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    Modular midrise housing, Vancouver, Canada

    Platforms For Life - Team LWPAC Lang Wilson Practice in Architecture Culture and Intelligent City.

  • Awards Silver 2017–2018 North America

This project achieves midrise, mixed-use housing through a modular panel system that can adapt to create a variety of unit layouts and architectural forms, Vancouver, Canada.

By Oliver Lang, Cynthia Wilson - LWPAC + Intelligent City, Vancouver, Canada and

Ideas: Embodied Carbon , Responsibly Sourced Materials, Housing Needs

This project achieves midrise, mixed-use housing through a modular panel system that can adapt to create a variety of unit layouts and architectural forms, Vancouver, Canada.

The project achieves net zero energy through a high insulation value and geothermal heating and cooling. Through flexibility, the proposed system empowers residents to invent their own future.

Stacked in Canada

Project authors

  • Oliver Lang

    LWPAC + Intelligent City

    Canada

  • Cynthia Wilson

    LWPAC + Intelligent City

    Canada

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    Martina Caniglia

    LWPAC + Intelligent City

    Canada

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    Jenny Lee

    LWPAC

    Canada

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    Mingyue Zhang

    LWPAC

    Canada

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    Ryan Gillespie

    LWPAC + Intelligent City

    Canada

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    Thomas Bocahut

    LWPAC

    Canada

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