danita rooyakkers
promoter, administrator and designer
danita@build-inc.com
Received her Bachelor of Architecture at Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada in 1989. She has worked in London, Nova Scotia and Montreal.
michael carroll
design consultant
michaelcarroll1@mac.com
Recently completed a post-professional degree at McGill University. He received his Master of Architecture at Technical University of Nova Scotia in 1987. He has worked in Lima, London, Halifax, Sevilla, Vancouver and moved to Montreal in 1995.
attila tolnai
project manager and administrator
attila@build-inc.com
Obtained his Bachelor of Engineering from ETS (École de Technologie Supérieure) and McGill University, in Construction Engineering and Management.
firm profile
Danita Rooyakkers, Michael Carroll and Attila Tolnai formed their design and build company in 1995 and subsequently have produced a series of urban infills for Montreal’s inner city neighbourhood. All the projects are built on the speculation that it fits an emerging market for alternative development in the North American city in which innovative design is matched with an economy of building. The projects are experiments that seek a balance to this dynamic equation.
The projects Thin House and Twin Tower House attempt to address the historical context of their neighborhoods within a contemporary sensibility. The outcome is an industrial aesthetic matched with a domestic scale of building in which the pragmatic dictates of urban planning by-laws are interpreted with an innovative eye. The projects are mutations of a loft in the industrial landscape that become a thin vertical loft of minimum width enclosed within a prescribed building envelop. The result is a series of urban infiltrations that make an argument for a leaner, more urbane architecture for city life.