Cambrian Heights
A 46,500 ft² multi-tenant industrial building in mass timber, placed on a difficult site informed by DAO's own cost and site modelling algorithm.
Projects
Completed buildings, works in progress, proposals and research.
Project list
Herold Industrial Park
A renovated 21,500 ft² building and a new 18,800 ft² mass timber building on a constrained site between two highways.
Nepahwin Residence
A nail-laminated timber balcony, solarium tea room and garage workshop added to a lakeside home on a phased, owner-built schedule.
Wahnapitae Residence
A supplier's prefabricated cottage, adapted to a sloping lakeside lot with an ICF walkout basement, balcony, garage and pool terrace.
Glamour by Krystal Beauty
A 4,200 ft² salon and spa fit-up, designed and approved on a fast track to open in under six months.
Float Spa
A sensory-deprivation spa planned as a gradual removal of stimuli, with a perforated screen wall designed and built by DAO.
Slag Blocks
Molten smelter slag cast into self-annealing block, turns mining waste into a building material.
Webbwood Industrial
A mass timber warehouse addition and wrap-around timber canopy give an existing building a noteworthy presence on the arterial road.
Chalmers Industrial Park
A 10.4-acre, multi-building industrial park in the early master-planning stages of design.
Armstrong Industrial
A renovation, loading bay addition and tenant fit-up for Habitat for Humanity's ReStore, keeping as much of the original building as possible.
Lapointe Industrial
A 70,805 ft² envelope refresh with new insulation, cladding, windows and doors to improve operating costs.
Algonquin Industrial
A new street-facing entrance volume in ACM panels, with signage and an accessible entry.
Helicopter Hangar
A mass timber A-frame hangar proposed for a 10-month design-and-build deadline using overlapping approvals and streamlined fabrication.
Nepahwin 2.0
A two-storey mass timber addition above an occupied house. The pilot project for Lantern Box.
Headquarters
A second-storey office cantilevered in two directions over an existing warehouse, with rooftop equipment hidden in a new roof form.
Garson Residence
Pool, fire-pit, outdoor kitchen, lounge and shading canopies designed as one connected outdoor living space for an existing home.
Huron Residence
An addition wrapped in a timber slat wall and canopy that filters daylight and frames views of Lake Huron.
Pandora
Retrofit of an existing mall storefront to the brand's international design standards.
Formid
A made-to-measure active seat folded from paper substrates, generated from body measurements and protected by US and Canadian patents.
Water Falls
A conceptual master plan for downtown Sudbury, featuring an atrium wrapped around the city's water tower.
Kingsmount Residence
A four-storey family house on a narrow severed lot, organised around one full-height wall and a central core.
Volcano Museum
A competition entry with a compression-ring roof and turf-bearing panels, inspired by Iceland's turf houses.
Carbon Canopy
A rule-based mass timber addition threaded through existing downtown buildings, with drawings, fabrication data and costs generated from a few client controls.
Fielding Industrial
A renovation to upgrade an older heavy-industrial building's structure, envelope and services to extend its life for a new tenant.
Rogers South Tower
Parametric set-out for a 32-storey tower's undulating slab edges, documented without custom formwork.
Airside Operations
A post-disaster operations building between two runways at Vancouver International Airport, combining mass timber, custom structural steel and pre-engineered steel.
Cedar Wall
An old-growth western red cedar perimeter wall detailed to last a century with minimal maintenance.
Slag Art Gallery
A master's thesis for a downtown Sudbury gallery built from cast slag, the local smelting by-product.
Cascading Biospheres
An ultra-high-performance concrete living-wall prototype that won the 2011 Ductal reactive wall competition.
Vases
Extruded clay vases made as gifts for guests at a shared celebration, each one cut to its own length and angle.