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Housing the Unhoused
Award of Merti: Ideas, Prototypes and Unbuilt Projects
Housing the Unhoused

This suite of modular cabins is conceptualized to be constructed quickly on vacant lots.

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2024
Location
Toronto, Canada
Firms
SvN with Two Steps Home and CABN, Canada
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Rob Shostak
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Ideas, Prototypes and Unbuilt Projects
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The solution to the housing emergency — a crisis as acute in Toronto as it is seemingly everywhere — is to give unhoused people homes. But construction takes time, and people need places to live now. With a new proposal, Housing the Unhoused, local firm SvN is offering a transitional solution: a suite of modular 8.8-square-metre cabins to be constructed quickly on vacant lots in neighbourhoods near transit. The private units will be built to Passive House principles, made of low-carbon materials like cross-laminated timber, and clustered around shared amenities. They will also be elegant and cozy, proving that a temporary solution needn’t be a slapdash one.

Team: Aaron Budd (SvN) with John van Nostrand (Two Steps Home); Jina Lee and Katerina Gloushenkova (SvN); and Jackson Wyatt (CABN)

Award of Merit: Ideas, Prototypes and Unbuilt Projects
Housing the Unhoused

This suite of modular cabins is conceptualized to be constructed quickly on vacant lots.

Location
Toronto, Canada
Firms
SvN with Two Steps Home and CABN, Canada
Photos
Rob Shostak
Category
Ideas, Prototypes and Unbuilt Projects

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