About Habit Studio

We’re an award-winning, women-led architectural design firm, specializing in environmentally responsible work including Passive House, deep retrofits, multi-unit residential buildings, mixed-use developments, community buildings and more. Every strategy is developed under the oversight of Lorrie Rand, a building science expert who teaches for Passive House Canada and contributes

Habit is on a mission to design buildings that foster meaningful connections. We design for beauty, sensory richness, and a connectedness to nature, to bring irrevocable changes to the way people live. Through our leadership in environmentally responsible design, we create buildings that are beautiful and sustainable.

We know renovations and retrofits because we’ve been doing them for years, including on our own building. Our Falkland Street studio is an 1850s home that tested at 24 air changes per hour when we bought it.

Every project has taught us something. We aim to put that learning to work on your home, so renovating gets easier for everyone.