VANCOUVER — Ryder Architecture has announced the completion of Timbre and Harmony, a non-market housing development designed to meet Passive House standards.
Designed for people 55 and older and people with disabilities, the project delivers 157 homes along East 12th Avenue in Vancouver’s Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood, explains a release.
Rezoning development and building permit approvals for the project were attained in just over two years, Ryder notes, and an energy study submitted during rezoning also eliminated the need for a sixth-floor setback, allowing for additional residential units.
The release states the project nearly triples the site’s capacity, while honouring Vancouver’s legacy of community-oriented walk-up apartments.
Commissioned by the Brightside Community Homes Foundation, 20 per cent of the units are fully accessible, while the remainder are readily adaptable, enabling residents to age in place.
Two six-storey, L-shaped buildings anchor the site, which also includes a landscaped commons between the two spaces.
Energy features include a 20 per cent window-to-wall ratio tuned for daylight and thermal balance, an airtight envelope with thermally broken balconies and fixed sun-shades, triple-glazed windows, ductless heat recovery ventilation and rooftop domestic heat-pump hot water.
The project received funding through the federal government’s National Housing Coinvestment
Fund and through the Green Municipal Fund’s Sustainable Affordable Housing
initiative delivered by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
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