Nine Yards Studio, a Charlottetown firm, is utilizing modular construction to tackle the housing shortage in Atlantic Canada. They are currently part of a project building two six-storey apartment complexes with 228 factory-built modules, marking a significant step in modular housing development.
Nine Yards Studio has completed five modular buildings since 2020. The Charlottetown firm is part of a venture erecting two six-storey apartment buildings for seniors and families that will be comprised of 228 modules made in a factory. Modular housing is “one of the solutions” to the housing crisis in Atlantic Canada and a Prince Edward Island-based architect is taking the medium seriously.
Nine Yards Studio has completed five modular buildings — two affordable rental apartments, two emergency shelters and one office building — since 2020 and the Charlottetown firm is part of a venture erecting two six-storey apartment buildings for seniors and families that will be comprised of 228 modules made in a factory. “They will be by far the largest volumetric modular (self-contained units built off-site) projects in the Maritimes and across Canada really,” Shallyn Murray, architect and co-founder of Nine Yards, recently said at a WoodWorks Atlantic webinar, Designing in Modular. She told her audience that through an integrated approach to design and construction, modular buildings rise quickly. While 80 per cent of the work is done in a factory, the builder is freed up to do other things onsite. In the case of the six-storey apartments underway on Malpeque Road in Charlottetown, the modules will arrive onsite with completed rough-ins, flooring, kitchens and other interior finishes. The two-building affordable housing complex will contain 145 units. The 60-foot-long units range from studios to four bedrooms. Each module is weather wrapped in an EPDM product in the factory before shipping. Murray said instrumental in “bridging the gap” between the onsite builder and the factory is consultant 720 Modular, a firm Nine Yards has worked with on other modular projects in the region.While there is a perception that modular buildings are simply cookie cutter designs, Murray said there is “some flexibility” to customize unit
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