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Ceramics Warehouse

Port Moody, BCU4Prof. Matthew Woodruff &Michael Cunningham (Patkau)

Ceramic studios

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The proposed Port Moody Ceramics Warehouse is a school, gallery and studio space for ceramic arts. It is sited on the intersection of residential and light industrial neighborhoods. The organization of the warehouse creates soft borders between programmatic zones rather than hard boundaries. The value of these “weak borders”, as defined by Richard Sennett, is that they promote the narrative use of places rather than ‘immediate fullness’ which is really the emptying out of potential.

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Ceramics

Caronport, SK2004Home Studio

Some of my earliest memories are of me helping my father make pottery in our home studio. These pieces of Japanese inspired dinnerware are a sample of the pottery I designed and made during my early years in college. The collection has a strong

sectional clarity that was developed to make the pieces as light, stable and clean as possible. The collection was displayed and sold primarily at the Yvette Moore Art Gallery in Saskatchewan.

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Lamp

McGill UniversityM1

Maria Mingallon

This Lamp was designed and fabricated as an exercise in parametric form finding and fabrication. The form was derived through digitally prototyping many variations of the lamp by adjusting the parameters of the base radius, opening radius, height, and the lattice shift. The form was then detailed to create a balance between soft elegant curves and the hard, studded connections.

Teammates:Reena MistryAnne-Marie DemeulesJessica SinRico LawGrace Lin

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Ecology Education Centre

Vancouver, BCU3Prof. Matthew Woodruff

The Ecology Education Centre proposes a new site and building for the Stanley Park Ecology Society (SPES). The project is raised above a constructed wetland which filters polluted run-off from the city before it enters the park’s lagoon and has been integrated into this natural filtration system. The project itself is a tool for education and a prime site for learning.

The clean water pavilion Outdoor classrooms on Lost Lagoon Entry boardwalk above the constructed wetland

Daniel Guenter

The project’s programmatic circulation is organized along the path of the building water treatment process. Patrons and students enter near the an-aerobic black-water holding tanks and can drink the same water as they leave the building at the clean water pavilion where the acoustic beauty of falling water is celebrated.

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Wood Design Case Study

First Nations House of Learning, Vancouver, BCU4Prof. Michel Labrie

The study modeled the ways that McFarland Marceau Architects Ltd translated traditional first nations construction techniques into con-temporary forms and details in the First Nations House of Learning. The project blends contemporary post and

beam details with a traditional skin of rough hewn cedar slats which are tied, rather than fastened, to cedar upstands with copper cable.

Traditional low entry

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Eko-in at Mt. Koya

Koyasan, JapanU3

Prof. Peter Levar

I made these sketches while staying at a Buddhist temple for two nights at Mount Koya in Japan. I tried to capture the close, human scale of the spaces, the quality of light, and the thinness of the partitions. I was especially struck by the effect of

the shoji screens which only ever half-filtered the light, sounds and smells from the adjacent rooms and gardens. One’s awareness in such spaces always extends far beyond sight.

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Jeffrey Mine Rehabilitation

Asbestos, QCM1Prof. Paula Meijerink

This proposal to rehabilitate the Jeffrey Asbestos mine began with an appreciation for the power of water in nature: it’s ability to neutralize the asbestos dust of the mine and also to (un)make things through erosion. The latent power of water to destroy

is used in this scheme to erode the polluted tailings back into the abandoned mine while using the ero-sion infrastructure to create a new agricultural landscape - a cranberry farm which also requires the control of water for its annual harvest flood.

Harvest floods Perspective from harvest canal

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Pre-erosion landscape Post-erosion landscape

Polluted Tailings

Asbestos, QC

Pipe Tailings into Mine

Repurpose Pipes for Farms

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The farm’s harvest depot is sited at the bottle-neck of the cranberry’s flow during the harvest floods. This scheme eliminates much labour simply by floating the berries to the depot where they are cleaned for shipping. The concrete structure of

the depot is cast into the earth and then unearthed by the same process of erosion that removes the mine tail-ings. The aesthetics of the rough-cast structure, the program, its organiza-tion and the mines rehabilitation all speak of the power of water.

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Pre-erosion earth formed concrete structure

Post-erosion earth formed concrete structure Harvest depot during harvest floods

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Modelling the Methodologies of Our Time

These images are from studies in Grasshopper which explore my conviction that the architectural value of contemporary design software lies in allowing for new modes of creative making and not in technological optimization.

1. Structural and behavioral models of natural and feral bee swarms.2. Form generation through recursive growth loops.3. Solar and fluid dynamic logics modeled together.

Facility for Architectural Research in Media & Mediation2011-2012Prof. Michael Jemtrud

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Cube

Simon Fraser University Corridor, Burnaby, BCU3

Prof. Peter Levar

This model was the product of iterative transformations of a linear corridor into a cubic form. By extrapolating sketches into a digital model, planometric and sectional elements of the model were con-fused to create a physically modeled space which is new yet recognizable within the syntax and rhythm of its referent. The turning and reorientation of the cube continues the exer-cise of generating new spatial opportunities.

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Community GardenCommunity KitchenSt. Michael’s Church (existing)Constructed WetlandArena Entry PlazaLight Industrial LotAccess to U/G Parking

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Masterplan + Community Library

Rickets Road, St. John’s, NFLDM1Prof. Robert Mellin

The strategies that guided the master plan of this project were born out of two forces that are definitive of St John’s: the jagged, linear built form of the existing fabric and the per-petual rain which makes St. John’s Canada’s rainiest and foggiest city.

The proposed block is bound together as a whole by strategies that identify water as the life source of its pro-grammatic ecology.

Daniel Guenter

Most of the site’s rain-water is collected by a central constructed wetland that acts as a storage bank and purifier in conjunction with the proposed ‘living machine’ purification system. The water is then redistrib-uted for use within the buildings, in

the proposed fish farm and in the urban agricultural strip. The synergies that exist between these systems are many and suggests a place that is developed on the belief that it is the social and formal interdependencies within a context that build community.

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The proposed masterplan developed the delaminating formal model for its buildings: this proposed community centre + library functions within that architectural language. Along with the adjacent arena, the green roofs-cape of the proposal peels away from

the earth to create a new landscape above. Within, the delaminated strips govern and modulate and organize the programme, material use, tectonic logic, the treatment of light, and the volumetric experience at many scales.

Upper entry and rooftop landscape

Rooftop view

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Ground Floor Plan 2nd Floor Plan 3rd Floor Plan

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INTENSIVE GREEN ROOF ASSEMBLY WITH PROTECTED MEMBRANE

SINGLE LAYER GLASS WALL SYSTEM

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DOUBLE LAYER OF LOW-E COATED CHANNEL GLASS

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Between Past-Future and Future

Vancouver, BCM2Prof. Torben Berns& Howard Davies

This project is premised on the recognition that Vancouver’s present city model and its fait accompli ‘past-future’ have run their course. The city’s idealistic and reactionary planning logic provides yet another example of modernity’s in-evitable self-overcoming—the continual negation of the present. Seeking an alternative, this project understands the present and idealism about the future as antinomies, contradictory, but able to share the same space; one does not necessarily preclude the other.

Having recognized the inevitability of the modern dialectic tradition, this project operates within the tradition through the methodology of monstrous demonstration—the interpretation and translation of the present as the mode of making new futures which do not seek to overcome the present. Working through the shared cultural imagination rather than the technical universals of modernity, it offers a delimited type of progress through the reinterpretation of the artifacts that have already been produced by Vancouver—its (sub)urban artifacts. It ironically twists the objects of Vancouver’s explicitly suburban ur-banism into a future hyper-urban condition. Understanding truth, meaning and history as made, this project is the attempt to make and demonstrate a previ-ously unimagined, yet recognizable architecture that will allow Vancouver to reimagine its identity and reconcile with the drastically different forms of its own future. Requalified ‘nature’ of the city

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Hunghom development near Hong Kong

Concord pacific development in VancouverMaximized density as rationalized by view cones

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10,500 men come to the Fraser River Gold Rush.Vancouver is born in Gastown. Vancouver is 1,000 people.Vancouver becomes CPR terminus.Vancouver is 100,000 people.Vancouver Amalgamates with Point Grey and South Vancouver to become 228,193 people.GVRD is formed after sewer connections.Vancouver > 1,000,000 people.Vancouver shrinks below 1,000,000 people.Vancouver’s 100th birthday and Expo ‘86.Concord Pacific buys the Expo grounds and imports the principles of the ‘livable’ podium tower typology from Hong Kong: ’Vancouverism’ is born.Canadian Multiculturalism Act is passed under Prime Minister Trudeau.Vancouver(ism) booms to 1,831,665 people.GVRD becomes “Metro Vancouver” and has 2,195,581 people. 47.1% are visible ‘minorities’. 40% of Vancouver has Asianic origins.Heritage neighbourhoods are re-zoned for “economic revitalization.”GVRD is 2.4 million people. GVRD estimates a population of 3,400,000, the majority of which are of Asian ethnicity.

At 3 million people, downtown Vancouver fights it own logics. The ‘livable’ pricinples that Vancouverism was built on are no longer imaginable. The city is too dense for its own ideals. The economy can no longer be yoked to the “Livable City.”

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Competition: Bulnes Urban Axis Master Plan

Santiago, Chile2012Jodoin Lamarre Pratte et Associés Architectes

New Public ProjectNew Chilean Cultural Centre

This competition entry proposes a new image for the historic heart of Santiago. It inserts dynamic public programs and a new synthetic grid into the rigid Spanish grid of Santiago’s institutional quarter. The

insertion of contemporary public spaces and natural elements into the tight checkerboard of the his-toric context speaks of Chile’s new multicultural and inclusive face in the global world.

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