Future Housing Ideas

The couple live on the ground floor of the main building and in the two-story laneway house located across a paved terrace. In the future, the laneway house can be turned into a separate apartment, to create a total of five condos.

Developed and designed by Janna Levitt and Dean Goodman of LGA Architectural Partners, Ulster House is an example of the kind of construction that could help meet Toronto’s housing needs.

Members of Mätti and Eva’s hall share kitchen appliances and household tools. Their group also includes nonresident members, known colloquially as “free-floaters,” who rent work spaces.

In an affordable housing complex in Zurich, Mätti Wüthrich, Eva Maria Küpfer, Alex Popert, Gaba Lopes, and Katharina Riedl live in movable structures inside an open communal space called a “hall.” An arrangement traditionally found in squats, their home is the first legal example of hall living in Switzerland.