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ELLIS PARK HOUSE
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broad third floor roof deck with a well defined green
edge engages the street life on Ellis Park Road while
an extensive green roof atop the house provides a
rare vista of nothing but tree tops except for the tip of
the CN Tower piercing High Park’s canopy.
The design and construction of the home provided the architectural team with the opportunity to experiment with various
systems, materials and assemblies, providing real world
experience and long term monitoring to verify theories and
assumptions that could not be tested on private clients.
The enduring legacy of the Ellis Park House is that many of the
design strategies that were novel at the time of its design have
become standard in the firms current work. The house proved
to the firm’s clients that reducing ones ecological foot print can
be done with out compromising comfort, luxury or style and
more importantly that sustainable practices really do pay for
themselves.