Wayback Architects
Wayback Architects
Wayback Architects
Wayback Architects is a Toronto-based architectural and design studio “shaped by friendship, curiosity and a shared belief that buildings should feel as good to live in as they are to see.” Founded by Stephen van der Meer and Jordan Winters, the firm focuses primarily on the residential and commercial realms, and its works display an attention to landscape, climate and the modest rituals of daily living. Among them are Trent Hills House, which is organized as two primary volumes joined by a green, gable-roofed entry. Another is a dreamy laneway abode: Banana Lane transforms a former banana ripening warehouse into a compact dwelling. By retaining the existing concrete block perimeter, the latter project establishes a sheltered courtyard that mediates between the public and the private, “allowing the house to shift between openness and retreat through operable screens and layered thresholds.”
