Supervising: Rick Andrighetti, Anne Bordeleau

Project: Design Studio, Fall 2017

Program: Student Residence

Location: Cambridge, Ontario

The Wellington house is a co-operative student housing residence designed to accommodate up to 5 students and a small take-out cafė comfortably in the center of downtown Galt in Cambridge, Ontario. The building sits on a steep hillside with access from both top and bottom, overlooking the parking lot of the Cambridge City Hall and into the Grand River Valley, flanked on the south by a small grove and to the north by existing houses.

The result is a building which negotiates the awkward public-private dimensions of both it’s program and site with a take-out coffee shop in the basement facing out to the City Hall and residences ontop.