New School of Jilovsko
Discovering the richness of our immediate surroundings is the first step in learning about the world. The school is integrated into local ecology. Inviting the forest and natural water management into the site creates a diversity of landscapes.
The heart of the site becomes a node to explore this diversity: spaces to play, explore, exercise, gather, and learn. The school contains a variety of formal and informal, indoor and outdoor, spaces for learning organized around a shared commons.
Painter’s Studio
A highly functional but also beautiful workspace, serving an established painter.
National Children's Museum of Korea
Along with winning the competition to masterplan the new National Museum Complex of South Korea, Office Ou was awarded the design of the first three buildings on site, including the National Children’s Museum of South Korea.
The Children’s Museum is designed to be a place for kids to enjoy being kids to the fullest, but also for kids to learn and grow up surrounded by values of civic and environmental stewardship. Thanks to the museum’s forecourt and rear landscape, the experience of the place can change drastically from season to season, making it enjoyable and exciting regardless of the time of year and weather.
Skola Smíchov
Toronto-based Office Ou has been selected as the winner of an international competition to design a new public school in the historic Smichov district of Prague. The school has received its final municipal construction permit and is expected to be completed by 2026.
Filmmaker's Studio
An extremely efficient back-yard workspace, nestled into a lush rear yard garden.
Living in the Bocage Landscape
We believe that sustainability is about learning to live at peace with our environment. To do this, we must understand the identities of the local landscapes and ecosystems, and appreciate their unique features so they may play a defining role in people’s daily lives.
Delaware "Missing Middle" Development
This 3-story “missing middle” apartment building design provides 6 dwelling units of different sizes and configurations (to foster socio-economic diversity), and aims to be one of the first single exit stair buildings in Toronto.
Home and Nature: Delaware Ave Adaptive Reuse
Tucked away behind rows of houses, an old auto garage lay vacant for decades. When new owners acquired the site, they decided it was time to breathe life back into the old auto garage by converting it into their new home, but wanted to preserve its charm and industrial character.
Namdo History Museum
Toronto-based Office Ou has been selected as a finalist for the design of the Namdo History Museum.
Yeouido Performing Arts Center
A performing arts center and major public park in the heart of Seoul
Sejong Museum Gardens - National Museum Complex of South Korea
Office Ou has been announced as the winner of South Korea's International Competition for the National Museum Complex Master Plan of the New Administrative City (Sejong City). Chosen as the winning design among a field of 81 entries from 26 countries around the world, Office Ou's Sejong Museum Gardens will play a crucial role in shaping the cultural landscape of South Korea's new metropolis. The competition entry was made in collaboration with Junglim Architecture as the local architect of record.
Caledon Residence
A multi-generational luxury home in the Ontario countryside built to Passive House standards.
The Garage Gem
This small structure re-imagines the detached laneway garage, often an under-utilized storage space, and makes it into a true extension of the home.
K-House, Net-Zero Strawbale Home
To reconcile the client’s needs for a home that is both familiarly comfortable yet sustainable, this house develops sustainable living practices within accepted notions of domestic comfort. The house explores how we can harness our understanding of culturally-ingrained lifestyles in order to affect change, reforming perceptions of suburban comfort from within, and making the adoption of widespread lifestyle changes as seamless as possible.
Sejong Central Operations Center and Storehouse
A new central operations center, offices and central storehouse for the new National Museum Complex of Korea
Soutok, A Productive "Sponge" Park
Suburban parks should have three functions: ecology, production and life.
In response to the challenges of frequent flooding and private ownership of land, the design proposes a new agricultural landscape model, which has three major benefits: ecological, economic and cultural.
Jan Vodnansky School: Diversity Nurtures Unique Educational Journeys
The school is a collection of diverse educational opportunities: classrooms, spaces for performance and display, nooks for small gatherings, lounges and playgrounds for group interactions, gardens for growing vegetables and for supporting pollinators and other species. All organized around a central shared atrium.