Our core studio course in first semester of third year was centered around the design of a home and studio. We were all given an existing two storey building at 37 Bulwer Street and were asked to choose a client whom we could justifiably imagine living and working there. At least 30% of the existing building structure had to remain.

I ended up modelling my client after the designer/artist Tobias Wong because I felt his personality and his work would serve as the perfect response to the current developmental state of the Queen West strip. My hope was that the inclusion of an artist like Wong would call attention to the former bohemian culture that once thrived throughout the neighbourhood. The architectural choices are meant to confront these same ideals in a playful manner, while also exhibiting a healthy does of strength and intensity in the apparent slicing into the existing building.