No. 11
Plexa Architecture · Toronto
Architecture for Toronto’s missing middle.
We are the design studio of Kplex. We design multiplexes, stacked townhouses and mid-rise rental buildings that add homes to Toronto streets and sit comfortably beside the houses already there.
No. 08
Crescent Town
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13Projects in design and pre-construction
207New homes across Toronto
5–60Units per building, house-scale to major street
1Team that develops, designs, builds and manages
01 — The studio
Every lot has a building that fits it. Our job is to find it.
Toronto now allows more homes on the lots that used to hold one house, and taller buildings along its major streets. No two lots are alike: the width, the depth, the trees, the neighbours, the rules that apply. We start there, test what the zoning allows, and design the building that makes the best use of the lot without overwhelming the street.
02 — Selected work
In design and pre-construction
No. 07
Morningside 1
Ten-plex10 unitsPre-constructionNo. 09
Cabbagetown 2
Stacked townhouses10 unitsPre-construction
No. 01
Bayview Village
Mid-rise, major street60 unitsPre-construction
03 — What we design
From house-scale to the major street
Four building types, each drawn for the lots and streets where Toronto’s rules allow it.
4+1 multiplexes
5 unitsFour homes in the main building and a garden suite at the back, at the scale of the houses on the street.
Hillcrest, Highland Creek
Six-plexes and 6+1
6–7 unitsThree and four storeys, for the parts of the city where six units are allowed, with a garden suite where the lot can take one.
Danforth, Cabbagetown 1
Ten-plexes and stacked townhouses
10 unitsTen homes on wider lots, including stacked townhouses on a corner and a building with a rooftop terrace.
Morningside 1, Cabbagetown 2, Crescent Town
Mid-rise on major streets
12–60 unitsApartment buildings on Toronto’s major streets, scaled to the street and to the houses behind them.
Bayview Village, Henry Farm, Bendale
04 — How we work
Four stages, from lot to permit
The same studio stays with each project from the first lot study until the building permit is issued.
- 01
Lot study
We read the zoning, the survey and the street, and work out how many homes the lot can take and what stands in the way: setbacks, height, trees, servicing.
- 02
Concept
Massing and unit-mix options, each tested against the bylaw and against the project budget, so the one we develop is one that can be built.
- 03
Design development
Floor plans, elevations, materials and details, coordinated with the structural, mechanical and energy consultants.
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Permits
The building permit drawings, and answers to City comments until the permit is issued. If a minor variance is needed, the Committee of Adjustment drawings too.
05 — One team
Part of the Kplex family
The developer, the designer, the builder and the property manager work as one team, so every drawing is shaped by what it costs to build and how the building will be lived in.
Kplex
Works with homeowners to replace an older house with a new multiplex.
kplex.caPlexa Architecture
Designs the building and takes it through to the building permit.
You are herePlexy Construction
Builds it, from the permit to the day the keys are handed over.
plexyconstruction.comViHome
Leases the homes and looks after the building and its tenants.
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