Omar Gandhi Architects is no stranger to a craggy shoreline. The firm, based in Toronto, Halifax, and Berlin, is accustomed to Nova Scotia’s rocky terrain, building a viewing platform over the coastline in 2021 and the Rockbound residence in 2024. The East River Residence joins the list of rocky architecture. This time, the architects were faced with a site challenged by a valley nestled between two, steep stony embankments. In rocking with the conditions, the architects suspended the home over the uneven land.
The home, a residence for a couple relocating from Montreal, arrives delicately on the land. A series of slender steel beams support the structure, minimizing the intervention on the nature beneath it. Above the beams, a cedar base makes up the low-slung home as it stretches across the embankments, topped with a long, offset metal-clad gable.
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