The Dundas Urban Corridor Community at The Preserve is located on a unique site which is surrounded by water. It offers this North Oakville enclave three significant urban edges.
This is an intentionally walkable, cycle-friendly, transit-oriented site.
The community includes a 4-storey, 62-unit condominium building with a parked level and 26 townhomes: rear lane and walkout and neighbouring mixed-use community retail.
The Shops at The Preserve
The Shops on The Preserve is a mixed-use development that acts as a neighborhood node for The Preserve and Dundas Urban Corridor community. The Preserve is one of Oakville’s most prestigious addresses.
Located in North Oakville, north of Dundas St., it is a Master Planned community surrounded on the north edges by conservation woodlot and to the south by the Dundas Urban Core edge.
The Shops of The Preserve conveniently offers retail, commercial spaces, social services, and opportunities for local employment.
Each townhouse unit is designed with a one-storey commercial storefront space with two-storey living above. Proportion, mass, scale and material were carefully considered to create a design that would transition from the traditional styles of The Preserve single family and townhomes to the contemporary goals of North Oakville’s Dundas Urban Corridor.
As a central destination, large exterior landscaped areas and pavilions allow for public gathering (farmers markets, holiday celebrations), creating a hub for social activities and connecting all typologies of the community.
Dundas Urban Corridor Townhomes at The Preserve
The Dundas Urban Corridor Community at The Preserve is located on a unique site which is surrounded by water. The townhomes offer a contemporary interpretation of the traditional architecture language of the surrounding area.
The project offers a range of housing options, from traditional single-family homes to mid-rise condominium blocks, with an internationally recognized standard of density.
The goal was to contemporize the community and challenge the vernacular of suburban living, bring style and leading design principles to the community.
Our vision for the townhomes was to increase the unit variety on the site, to appeal to a wider-range of end users, while transitioning the bold architecture of the street-fronting midrise building to the calmer side streets behind.
The low-rise community is comprised of 26 townhomes, both rear lane and walkout above one level of underground parking (shared with the mid-rise building).
The materiality, colour and visual expression of the townhomes challenges the conceptions of the community and invites those looking for an alternative to a downtown lifestyle to have a viable option that does not sacrifice distinct placemaking design and quality.
Dundas Urban Corridor Midrise at The Preserve
Creekshore Common is the first high-density development on North Oakville’s Dundas Urban Corridor (DUC). It singularly re-defines the land-use potential of the community and sets a precedent for respectfully scaled urban style living, with a focus on transit and quality of life.
With the neighbouring shops at the Preserve and many other community facilities, the project invites a more car-free experience, atypical of the surrounding area.
Located on a peninsula of land between two Storm Water Management ponds, the building and its adjacent townhomes form a significant urban edge on Dundas, at the entrance to the Preserve community beyond.
The building’s site and amenities create an environment that favours pedestrian and cyclist mobility, promoting an active and healthy lifestyle, this includes active considerations for bike parking and security on the site.
While executed in wood frame, the façade’s projecting planes in combination with large spans of floor-to-ceiling glass suggest another construction type entirely. This expression encourages a shift in architectural perception, challenging one’s expectations for wood-frame construction and the inherent possibilities it has for future communities.
