Location: Beaverton, Ontario  

Architecture Practices:  Montgomery Sisam Architects Inc.

The Beaverton Heights project offers a dignified response to homelessness within tight budgets and timelines. The project achieved the rapid delivery of 47 high-performance, high-quality, affordable homes. In addition to housing, it provides a network of wraparound supports: dining, meeting, and social support rooms for primary care, employment assistance, skills training, and addictions treatment, within a dedicated community hub. Open to the broader North Durham community, it acts as a catalyst for social cohesion.

The project sits along the edge of a residential neighbourhood. Buildings are set back to embrace the mature landscape. The residence adopts a subdued, elongated form with a continuous roofline, while the community hub introduces a more playful expression. Its smaller scale softens the transition between multi-unit housing and single-family dwellings across the street. Sloping roofs echo the local vernacular, complemented by a warm, durable material palette of tongue-and-groove siding, board-and-batten cedar siding, and galvanized corrugated aluminum. These materials create a deliberate dialogue between the building, its natural setting, and its neighbourhood.

 

Jury Comments

"Generous and warm interior communal spaces, and a thoughtful relationship of interior and exterior spaces, challenges the rigidity that modular construction might engender."

 

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Publish Date : 2026/Jun/15