Developer: Regional Municipality of Waterloo
Architect: LGA Architectural Partners
  
Address: 82-84 Wilson Ave, Kitchener, Canada
Category: Residential (Seniors Home, Affordable Rental), Commercial (Office)
Status: ConstructionCrane(s): 0
Height: ? ft / ? mStoreys: 6 storeys
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Waterloo Regional Housing – 82 Wilson


In Kitchener, we are working with Waterloo Region Housing to augment an affordable seniors housing complex with a new and adjoining six-storey building providing 48 new units as well as wraparound supports including offices, flexible programming rooms, and medical services.

In addition to addressing a need for increased seniors accommodation in Kitchener-Waterloo, we went beyond the brief to also create a leading sustainable building for the region. We began by modelling the project’s energy performance, selecting both active and passive systems to exceed the region’s current LEED Silver and Passive House standards.

The building will be heated and cooled by a geothermal system, and heat loss and gain will be minimized by a highly efficient envelope. Also, we designed externally mounted steel frame balconies to provide residents with private outdoor space while preventing thermal bridging. Rooftop solar panels will further reduce the building’s dependency on the energy grid.


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This is one of the first redevelopments of existing WRH sites that the Region of Waterloo is under taking, it's also by far one of the smaller ones, when there's more information on the others I'll make threads, there is progress happening but nothing public facing yet.

This site itself has been under construction for a while, in 2022 they demolished the existing 2 floor apartment that was on site and in 2023 they started construction, when I was by in the summer they were working on the 5th floor so it wouldn'tbe suprising if its topped out. I'll try to get a picture if I venture that way.
 

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