The Ghost Architectural Laboratory is the research facility of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited. It is an education initiative designed to promote the transfer of architectural knowledge through direct experience – project-based learning taught in the master-builder tradition – with emphasis on issues of landscape, material culture, and community. For two weeks every summer builders, students, engineers, architects, and professors converge on MacKay’s property to partake in a design/build intership. The one featured here is Ghost 7, the first permanent Ghost project.
Project description, images, and drawings after the break.
Architect: MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited
Location: Upper Kingsburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
Project Team: Brian MacKay-Lyons, Talbot Sweetapple, Peter Blackie
Structural: Campbell Coumeau
Builder: Gordon McLean, Warren Mcally
Project Area: 2,000 sqf
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: James Steeves









































Hassan Ally, SE PE PEng (Toronto, ARUP) in collaboration with Maria Mingallon (












































