Overview
Building on years of experience in designing infill housing, and after confronting countless barriers on a daily basis, our team has created BuildingIN to help Canadian cities get on track with housing supply, while at the same time, growing in a vibrant way that existing communities will welcome.
The BuildingIN approach focuses on qualifying areas, using overlay regulations to address barriers to infill rather than just blanket rezoning. BuildingIN combines this with a neighborhood investment strategy to ensure that both current and future residents have confidence that their neighbourhoods will be even better places to live.
BuildingIN simulates infill outcomes, so that cities can plan for low-rise infill with certainty, meet targets, and invest strategically in infrastructure that will directly stimulate and support infill housing at scale.
Our program, suite of tools, simulations, maps, 3D modeling and permit-ready housing catalogue will equip both municipal planners and housing developers to meet housing needs, foster complete communities, balance municipal books, and reduce emissions.
Learning Outcomes
Understanding regulatory investment strategies
Understanding benefits of complete communities
Repeatable and reliable permit ready designs
Low-cost production of multi-unit homes with predictable returns.
Presenter
Rosaline Hill (OAA, RPP, MRAIC, MCIP, OPPI) Principal Architect & Senior Planner; RHJ Architecture + Planning
Rosaline is a registered professional planner and multi-award winning architect, including "Designer of the Year" for the 2021 GOHBA awards. She began her architectural practice in 2011 after a decade of working at Hobin Architecture, as well as 4 years of work in Toronto and London, England. As both architect and development consultant, she has a wide experience of infill development in Ottawa. Her projects are largely residential and are part of the streetscape of neighbourhoods across the nation's capital, from custom singles to 'missing middle' development to mid-rise apartment buildings. Rosaline's thorough knowledge of Ottawa's Official Plan and other regulations allows for designs that win approvals and make the City a better place to live. She has consulted for the City of Ottawa on R4 zoning, and volunteers with the Greater Ottawa Home Builders' Association (GOHBA) providing input on upcoming infill bylaws. Rosaline has engaged in extensive research on the patterns and forces governing neighbourhood evolution. In 2020 she founded Walkable Ottawa and now works collaboratively to advance walkability in urban neighbourhoods. She also founded Ottawa Cohousing to bring the tools and expertise for people to build new homes and cohouse communities together.