Row Housing Study

Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Client: N/A
Budget: N/A
Area: 165 sm/unit
Category: Conceptual Study / Residential
Date Completed: 2023

The House as Interlaced Volumes

We reject the conventional stack of floors that reduces dwelling to repetition.
Instead, we propose the row house as an assembly of volumes—spaces that overlap, connect, and create a balance between privacy and openness. These relationships are achieved not through partitions, but through the careful organization of room and void.

The house is not a set of compartments. It is a sequence of spatial experiences, where circulation is integral to daily life rather than residual space.

The roof is conceived as a defining element. Its geometry is both functional and symbolic—shedding water and snow while shaping interior space through light and shadow.

Balconies are not applied additions, but natural extensions of the form, integrated into the overall geometry.

The program is straightforward—garage below, living spaces at the middle, bedrooms above—but the architecture resists reduction to a checklist. It is defined by movement, by the connection between rooms, and by volumes that allow the building to breathe.

The row house must not be a simple stack of floors. It must be understood as a fabric of volumes—integrated, dynamic, and alive.