Parkdale Feasibility Study/Consulting

Detached | Adaptive Reuse

Feasibility Studies | Completed 2022 w/AB+ZU

Zoning/Committee of Adjustment Consulting | Completed 2024

This former industrial fabrication workshop was converted to an artist’s studio and home decades ago - with the owner now looking to build an top-up addition we were tasking with research and zoning/building code/structural analysis to determine how we could build while maintaining the historic structure, and working within Toronto’s complicated zoning rules.

Because the original factory was built to the lot lines of this inner-city property, any design work was extra complicated with restrictions from zoning and building code. We scanned the building and used the data along with existing surveys to model the options as researched, presenting in plan, isometric 3D, and rendered perspectives. During the project the client requested to add on solar studies to investigate the impact of some proposed developments she had heard of along Queen St. near her home.

A couple of years after we finished our Feasibility Study we worked with this client again to provide solar studies for her to use at the Committee of Adjustment (CofA) hearing for one of those aforementioned proposed developments. We worked quickly to model the proposed design into the neighborhood created using our LiDAR and photogrammetry data. Our studies showed that the proposed design would cast unreasonable shade if allowed a variance to the angular plane rule, and were relied upon by the client when she made her arguments at CofA - ultimately winning her case.