Low-Rise Rental Housing Projects

Gabriel Fain Architects Designed the Montrose Sixplex

Gabriel Fain Architects has completed the Montrose Sixplex — a six-unit rental housing project in a low-rise Toronto neighborhood. This design venture leverages the city's evolving zoning regulations to explore a model of gentle density through a carefully composed ensemble of a street-facing multiplex and two laneway houses oriented toward a nearby park.

The street-facing building adopts a single gabled form wrapped in Belgian buff brick, with pitched roofs, proportioned window openings, limestone sills, and patterned brickwork that create a sense of permanence and continuity with the surrounding residential character. The laneway houses, on the other hand, though smaller, align in massing and proportions to read as a unified architectural ensemble that reimagines the laneway as a shared front-yard condition connected to the park.

Gabriel Fain Architects collaborated with Unison Group for the interior of the rental housing project.

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