King City Guest House

The King City Guest Houses are a result of our ongoing product development and collaboration with GRIPblock, using their sticky metal system. Several modestly scaled rooms, each 9 square feet in width and height, are placed in square tubes of various lengths. These tubes can be stacked on one another in different configurations to create a range of experiences, from projecting over the water’s edge to providing long views across the rolling landscape.

The design for the guest house imagines an unplugged architecture, located on a rural site surrounding a small lake north of Toronto. We used the guest houses to explore the forgotten pleasure of meditative silence in a world of saturated stimulation.

Each space within these houses is lined with natural wood, offering guests the opportunity to be still and listen to their surroundings and their own being. Spending time within this architecture of silence and intimacy allows the usually unnoticed to come to the forefront of our sensual and emotional perception.