FORESIGHT & INSIGHT | DESIGN

Canada's Housing Design Catalogue

Client

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Design Team

LGA Architects Lead
Michael Green Architecture
Half Climate Design
Dub Architects
KANVA
Abbott Brown Architects
Taylor Architecture

Scope of Work

Research
Content development/editing
Key Messages
Website guidance, navigation & architecture
Site planning

We are pleased to be part of the cross-Canada team working on the CMHC Design Catalogue collaborating with LGA architects to bring a range of intelligent, sustainable, and easy-to-build housing solutions to the Canadian market. The online catalogue provides architectural plans for a range of houses that are focused on infill development and gentle density. This game-changing catalogue provides designs for infill low rise housing including row housing, fourplexes, six plexes, and accessory dwelling units—helping builders simplify and accelerate the delivery of much-needed homes across the country.

Our Role
We contributed across a range of communication roles from website organization, messaging and content development of the “How-to” guide. The complex challenge required communicating the full range of considerations, benefits and project assumptions from regional specificity, costing, site planning, mechanical and structural issues, energy consumption, team assembly and material specifications. We also developed more detailed site planning options for each region of Canada based on specific zoning criteria.

Regional Designs for Local Needs
Each house design is developed by local architecture and engineering teams to align with regional building codes, planning rules, climate zones, and relevant construction methods and materials. This project will help accelerate construction, cut costs, and ensure more Canadians have a quality home that is architect-designed, energy efficient and low carbon. The houses will also enable owners to age in place as they are designed to be easily converted to barrier-free accommodation if required.

The catalogue is an important project that will accelerate the building of homes across the country.

Regional Designs for Local Needs

Each design is developed by local architecture and engineering teams to align with regional building codes, planning rules, climate zones, construction methods and materials.