Plans

Creation Mixed Use

Airdrie AB

Creation's mixed-use development in Airdrie, Alberta features 56 residential units, ranging from one-, two-, and three-bedroom layouts. Select homes also include dens. While all residences offer private balconies, a few units on the second floor feature direct access from their private patio to a shared rooftop amenity area.

The building's ground level is activated by commercial retail units facing both north and south, contributing to a lively and pedestrian-friendly streetscape. An underground parkade provides convenient parking for residents, while the surface parking lot provides commercial parking as well as additional resident and visitor stalls.

The exterior facades react to their context whether mountain views, leafy residential, or busy highway. The material palette is modern and durable, yet cost-conscious including cementitious panel cladding and corrugated metal in both white and dark grey and black. Wood-tone metal plank accents add warmth to the clean, contemporary aesthetic.

Siting the four-storey building towards the NE corner of the property was vital to reducing proximity and overlook concerns with adjacent townhomes to the west, and single detached dwellings slightly downhill to the south. Combined with landscape screening measures, this strategy mitigated many of the community engagement challenges when proposing new densification in established low-rise areas. This project's proximity to the Queen Elizabeth II Highway also resulted in the requirement for a traffic impact assessment, sound study, and provincial reviews.

What resulted is a project that respects the nature of a residential neighbourhood while mitigating the activity of a major Alberta thoroughfare.

The Development Permit application was recently submitted.

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Developer: Homes by Creation
Architecture and Renderings: Gravity Architecture
Civil: Lee Maher Engineering
Landscape: Invistec

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