Like a pair of jugglers, Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe approached the Integral House, in Toronto, as a balancing act—creating a building that seems to defy basic forces of architecture. By anchoring the horizontal thrust of the project’s floor plans to the vertical force of its tumbling section, and spinning intimate elements off of grand gestures, they made a 15,000-square-foot house perched on the side of a steep ravine appear effortlessly connected to its site and the larger context of the city’s cultural topography. Fluid yet orthogonal, handcrafted and digitally produced, the house performs by reconciling opposites.
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