Its defining architectural gesture extends the landscape of Christie Pits Park upward and over the building to create a continuous, inhabited terrain. The project transforms existing transit infrastructure into a mixed-use residential community that draws people, landscape, and urban biodiversity into a connected system, extending the ecology of the park.
A terraced residential topography rises above the station, organizing homes around private terraces with direct access to daylight, fresh air, and vegetation. Shared gardens, a planted roof, and outdoor gathering spaces blur the boundary between architecture and landscape, creating an urban, social environment connected to nature.
Ecology is not applied to the architecture; it is embedded within it. Native meadow planting, pollinator gardens, insect habitat, bird nesting cavities, bat roosts, and biodiverse landscapes create additional habitat for birds, bats, and pollinating insects impacted by human activity within the park. Distributed according to species-specific needs and vertical ecological strata, these interventions form a connected habitat network from street to rooftop. Each facade and sloped green roof becomes ecological infrastructure, managing stormwater, mitigating heat-island effects, and restoring natural habitats.
At ground level, the proposal reimagines the public realm around Christie Station, improving pedestrian and cyclist safety, strengthening connections to Christie Pits Park, and creating a welcoming streetscape along Bloor Street.
By layering housing, landscape, and biodiversity above a transit station, Christie Co/Habitat offers a vision of growth in which infrastructure, community, and nature become mutually supportive elements of a more resilient Toronto.
