Impossible Toronto

Impossible Toronto is an initiative of the Neptis Foundation, imagining the housing a city needs but doesn't yet allow itself to build. The first investigation: On the Courtyard, Learning from European Blocks.

A yearlong study is a dense thing to hand a city. The site turns it into one continuous scroll, the whole argument unfolding section by section as you move. Research you read the way you'd walk a courtyard.

Identity by Blok.

Deliverables

Website design and development

Technology

Headless CMS, Nuxt 4, GSAP

Impact

Made a complex architectural study accessible and engaging.

Impossible Toronto website on a tablet showing the chapter opener On the Courtyard: Learning from European Blocks
Impossible Toronto website on a tablet showing the Built Form section with a rendering of a wild courtyard garden between apartment blocks
Impossible Toronto website on a tablet showing the green chapter menu: Introduction, Design Proposal, Impossibilities, Possible Somewhere, Conclusion
Impossible Toronto website on a tablet showing an apartment building among trees beside the introduction text
Impossible Toronto website on a tablet showing a collage of courtyard housing renderings with greenery
Impossible Toronto website on a tablet showing a collage of courtyard housing exteriors and bright interiors
Impossible Toronto website on a tablet showing isometric diagrams of two housing blocks
Impossible Toronto website on a tablet showing the On the Courtyard design proposal chapter
Impossible Toronto website on a tablet showing an image viewer with a sunlit balcony and living room