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L O C K E & K E Y | P E R S P E C T I V E 7 9 house and its spaces needed to feel grand but still grounded to its environment and characters. Exteriors After reading all ten scripts, I started to research North American East Coast architecture. I then travelled to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a three- hour ight east of Toronto, which would be the location for Matheson, Massachusetts, in the story. Lunenburg has a unique architectural style, with colourful ship-lap siding, porches and unique windows. The exterior of Keyhouse was built on a leased empty 10-acre parcel of land just outside Toronto. Once Art Directors William Cheng and Hank Gay put together proper architectural drawings and site plans, the tech-savvy construction department, run by Dwight Doerksen, started building the Keyhouse exterior facade in the middle of Canadian winter, when temperatures range from 0 degrees to -25C. This was…challenging. The crew prefabricated the facade walls inside a warm workshop. They had to pre-paint the entire facade before it was put together because the paint was not going to dry outside in the sub-zero temperatures. The prefabricated facade sections were all trucked to the build site and everything was put together like a Lego kit. The paint had to be tied together with aging and vegetation, vines, etc. A little bit of on-site painting was accomplished by adding anti-freeze to the paint. A. KEYHOUSE EXTERIOR. SKETCHUP MODEL. B. KEYHOUSE EXTERIOR. ETCHING. C. KEYHOUSE EXTERIOR. CONCEPT ILLUSTRATION. B C