Squamish Multiplex
Awards
1st place winner, Second Storey Dwellings
1st place winner, Ground Level Dwellings
2nd place winner, Elevated Dwellings
December 2024
The Brief
In September 2024, The District of Squamish hosted a Multiplex Design Competition. The competition is one of the actions outlined in the Squamish Housing Action Plan and is funded by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation Housing Accelerator Fund. Haeccity Studio entered and won in all three categories.
Squamish Competition Website
Second Storey Dwellings [1st Place]
The project takes a practical approach towards creating usable outdoor and amenity spaces through nuanced considerations of setbacks and massing. Permeability and flow drive the project’s siting and organization, emphasizing sight lines and physical connections between the ground plane of the site, the adjacent street, and dramatic landscape beyond.
Higher Ground is meant to feel like an extension of the public street, broadening the diversity of multi-family housing while respectfully acknowledging the form and character of existing building stock.