Cambrian Heights
A 46,500 ft² multi-tenant industrial building in mass timber, placed on a difficult site using DAO's own cost and site models.
Projects
Completed buildings, work in design, proposals and research. Each project lists its status, DAO's services and the project team.
Project list
Herold Industrial Park
A renovated 21,500 ft² building and a new 18,800 ft² mass timber building on a constrained site between two highways.
Nepahwin Residence
A nail-laminated timber balcony, solarium tea room and garage workshop added to a lakeside home over a phased, owner-built schedule.
Wahnapitae Residence
A supplier's prefabricated cottage, adapted to a sloping lakeside lot with an ICF walkout basement, balcony, garage and pool terrace.
Glamour by Krystal Beauty
A 4,200 ft² salon and spa fit-up, designed and approved on a fast track to open in under six months.
Float Spa
A sensory-deprivation spa planned as a gradual removal of stimuli, with a perforated screen wall designed and built by DAO.
Slag Blocks
Casting molten smelter slag into large self-annealing blocks, turning a mining waste into a building material.
Webbwood Industrial
A mass timber warehouse addition and wrap-around timber canopy that give an existing building a presence on the arterial road.
Armstrong Industrial
Renovation, a loading bay addition and a tenant fit-up for Habitat for Humanity's ReStore, keeping as much of the original building as possible.
Lapointe Industrial
A 70,805 ft² envelope renewal with new insulation, cladding, windows and doors to cut operating costs.
Algonquin Industrial
A new street-facing entrance volume in ACM panels, with signage and an accessible entry.
Helicopter Hangar
A mass timber A-frame hangar proposed for a 10-month design-and-build deadline using overlapping approvals and fabrication.
Nepahwin 2.0
A two-storey mass timber vertical addition over an occupied house, studied as a model for adding homes without new land.
Headquarters
A second-storey office cantilevered in two directions over an existing warehouse, with rooftop equipment hidden in a new roof form.
Garson Residence
Pool, fire-pit, outdoor kitchen, lounge and canopies designed as one connected outdoor living space for an existing home.
Huron Residence
An addition wrapped in a timber slat wall and canopy that filters daylight and frames views of Lake Huron.
Pandora
Retrofit of an existing mall storefront to the brand's international design standards.
Formid
A made-to-measure active seat folded from paper substrates, generated from body measurements and protected by two US patents.
Water Falls
A conceptual master plan for downtown Sudbury, starting with an atrium wrapped around the city's water tower.
Kingsmount Residence
A four-storey family house on a narrow severed lot, organised around one full-height wall and a central core.
Volcano Museum
A competition entry with a compression-ring roof and turf-bearing panels, inspired by Iceland's turf houses.
Carbon Canopy
A rule-based mass timber addition threaded through existing downtown buildings, with drawings, fabrication data and costs generated from a few client controls.
Fielding Industrial
Upgrading an older heavy-industrial building's structure, envelope and services to extend its life for a new tenant.
Rogers South Tower
Parametric set-out for a 32-storey tower's undulating slab edges, documented without custom formwork.
Cedar Wall
An old-growth western red cedar perimeter wall detailed to last a century with minimal maintenance.
Slag Art Gallery
A master's thesis for a downtown Sudbury gallery built from cast slag, the local smelting by-product.
Cascading Biospheres
An ultra-high-performance concrete living-wall prototype that won the 2011 Ductal reactive wall competition.
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