Residenza Italia is an affordable 52-unit housing project designed to provide senior tenants with a dignified place to live. Working with Residenza Affordable Housing, the building was designed to foster a sense of community and to support seniors to age in place.
Built on a sloped site off Hamilton Road, the building’s three-storey street frontage emerges into a five-storey building that steps as it descends the site. The building exterior incorporates brick and metal siding arranging to differentiate individual apartments within the larger mass of the building. Glass punctuates the building form to allow for transparency and light. Communal areas are located so that occupants have views towards the Thames River and Thames Valley Parkway.
This project was recognized with a City of London Urban Design Award (2013) and a LSTAR Don Smith Commercial Building Award (2013).
