A recent Globe and Mail feature about backyard office spaces is a cornucopia of Daniels Faculty connections.

The article opens with an anecdote about Daniels Faculty professor Mason White and his partner, University of Waterloo professor Lola Shepherd. The pair commissioned a backyard office from macroSPACE, a practice cofounded by Daniels Faculty assistant professor Maria Denegri.

Vicky Mochama writes:

Mason White and Lola Shepherd considered briefly moving out to a farm in Ontario’s Prince Edward County. “I lost that argument,” Mr. White says.

Instead, the Toronto family commissioned a “macroSPACE” unit from the modular building designers of the same name; a pre-fabricated one-room structure to sit in their backyard. With one teenager tackling high school from home, another arriving home early from COVID-shortened school days and the parents – both professors – teaching from the house, space in their house became a precious commodity. The house sits on a skinny lot in Toronto’s Bloorcourt neighbourhood; adding to the main house itself would have been prohibitively expensive.

What they get instead is a room of one’s own – a place that suits the needs of all the family members. The elder teenager gets a place to play video games; the younger a space to exercise. Both children have a space to hang out with friends and the parents get a quiet space to finish work, or read.

Read the rest of the article on the Globe's website.