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The portfolios theme is to represent the process in which the final result of the design exercise was achieved. The sketches are arranged in a time-line to show a larger span of work without going into excess detail. From the timeline specific works are chosen that excel in demonstrating growth both in idealogy, methodology and design. The viewer is then redirected to the contents where a glimpse is provided of most of the work before its final repre-sentation. The timeline spans almost 5 years starting with the pinnacle of the undergraduate studies and ending with the fullness of the graduate studies. From there the viewer will then receive a detailed account of the selected projects in their final repre-sentation form accompanied with a precis describing
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Undergraduate thesis: The highway revisited Quantitative vs. Qualitative: Representation of river installation at Trent University, Ontario
Desk appendage: Furniture as landscape
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The Urban Zoo: The spectacle of exotic species Niagara Falls: Mans reconciliation with nature and artifact
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La Boca gentrification: Extending the citys grid onto the water Metropolis Studio: Removing barriers in priority neighbourhoods (Flemingdon Park-Victoria Village)
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Open Circuits: A tower renewal story
Bursting the Bubble: The building as the social network
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waterfront primary school: a detailed look
open circuits: a tower renewal story
bursting the bubble: the building as the social network
the toronto deltas: political mediation meets urban planning
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Graduate thesis: The Toronto Deltas -Political mediation meets urban planning
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UPPER GRADES/LIBRARY (SEMI-PRIVATE)
MODULES ARRANGED TOEXPRESS GRADE HIERARCHY AND MAXIMIZE VIEWS
ENVELOPE CARVES SKELETAL STRUCTURE BASED ONDAYLIGHTING FACTORS
JUNIOR/MIDDLE GRADES
MIDDLE GRADES/CIRCULATION
ADMIN./PARENT SERVICES
GYMNASIUM (SEMI-PRIVATE)
MIXED USE (PUBLIC)
MIDDLE/UPPER GRADES waterfront primary school 8
waterfront primary school (in collaboration with Matt Alves) The name waterfront primary school focuses on the projects functionality and does not reveal its architectural themes by name, yet the name makes you discover these gestures visually by exploring its plans, sections and diagrams. The duality of primary refers to its function of housing grades up to the year prior to secondary school as well as stating the school as the first institutional generator of gentrifi-cation by providing public and private institutional services to the context.
Conceptual approach/thesis This projects primary mission is not one of architecture but one of urban revitalization. The school is located at the waterfront south of the distillery district an area known for its desperate need of revitalization. The site is located at a relatively large arterial making it a prominent node. In terms of massing the school strives to become seamless with the proposed context where the eye of the passerby can flow from the foreground of the site and up to its bold cantilevers at the west elevation while achieving visual setbacks at the east elevation. The cantilevers also attempt to achieve a direct access with the adjacent park both visually and physically by floating, withholding its contained program and structure from becoming a barrier. Inter-nally the program is arranged differently in plan and section. In plan the program is placed along the edges of the floor plate. Therefore the main circulatory pattern starts from the center and is equidistant from most points of the school. In section multipurpose spaces sandwich the institutional portion of the building. The classrooms and their support rooms are again located relatively equidistant to the additional program in the vertical plane. The classrooms are arranged following a hierarchy where the lower grades start at the bottom floor and the upper grades are at the higher floors.
Why is the design approach appropriate? The purpose of the project is to create an educational facility that serves public and private members of the immediate community. The arrangement of the programs is geared to serve the public at grade yet maintain a comfortable security from public users by having classroom access away from grade, arriving at the conclusion that the schools is acting as an intermediate community center before one is actually established in the gentrified area.
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LATERAL BRACING SYSTEM
COMPRESSIONTENSION
CORE PLACEMENT
HSS FRAME SYSTEM
ENVELOPE DETAIL
open circuits The focus of this studio was to retrofit and make sustainable multiple high-rise towers, built during the 60s and 70s, scattered throughout the Greater Toronto Area. The studio is in light of Torontos tower renewal initiative. Our studio focused on the North York neighborhood south of The Peanut (Don Mills & Sheppard). The existing site is portioned into lots by chain link fences that run along the property lines laid by the city. The sites menacing demeanor doesnt help the towers isolation from mainstream arterials and local mega mall Fairview. This gesture takes an extra step which focuses not only on the outdated and inefficient envelope but also the ground plain as a barrier. The proposed site plan eliminates the gated property and introduces above grade vehicular circulation allowing the infiltra-tion of self sustaining commercial, recreation and institutional program. Daycare has been added to promote program usage while amenities have been upgraded for existing towers as well. The proposed towers also add density in addition to multiple suite types including a percentage of rental apartments for lower income residence. The towers include passive solar design on all 4 elevations as well as expanded lobby entrances to eliminate unsafe and cramped entranceways. The interior layout is also inherently different by including solariums as buffer spaces for solar gain in the winter. The suites also include sliding doors which expand and contract rooms changing the layout of the suite for different occasions. The master plan keeps the vistas open and preserves views atop the ridge, the initial marketing scheme used 50 years ago, whereas an infill strategy could clog up the already impenetrable ground plane.
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mega blocks micro communities
block 2:423 units required428 provided500sqm daycare800sqm community1000sqm commercial
block 1:south towersfloors: 20units: 180 totalwest towersfloors: 24units: 330 total
480 suites reqd136 single units374 family units510 provided
500sqm daycare800sqm community1000sqm commercial
block 3:124 units required168 provided500sqm daycare800sqm community1000sqm commercial
PARTI EXISTING FILTER RESULT
FOCUSED SITE
PROPOSED PLAN
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The parti was established by the notion of a self sustaining megablock. However the megablock needs to be broken down, eliminate the property lines and establish a shared space under the juristiction of the landowners. The central focus of these now boundless lots lie in the communal program at its center. Along with the new roads and commercial programs which include markets, the ominous megablock is now a busling micro community promot-ing permeability and movement, no longer the staleness of purely outdated residential design.
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stormwater management
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1 bedroom1 bedroom + den
2 bedroom + den3 bedroom + den
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suite types:
suitedistribution:
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solar strategiesper elevation:
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2-3 people= 3-4 spaces
3-4 people= 5-6 spaces
To maximize the potential of these suites, they have been compartmentalized using sliding dividers, that can expand and contract private/public parts of the suite, as well as adding solariums and bris soleils as passive systems for heat gain and natural light respectively. Because of the size of the proposed apartments active systems are possible such as operable windows and louvers seen on the following page.
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bursting the bubble (in collaboration with Matt Alves) This project was designed to interpret and answer Peter Sloterdijks rigid foam and spheres essays. Sloterdijks main argument was the inhabitants within a multi unit residence is an independent collective; each person living for themselves, together and that the apartment itself becomes a physical and ideological extension of the inhabitant. What should we change? What should we nurture?
Questions asked and statements made during the design process include the following:- Why should atomized living be for the weak?- Why should the inhabitants of a multi unit residence pretend to be one body when the only interaction is a silent moment in the elevator?- Humans bind together on a virtual plane from commercial and/or social motives.- Speed as increased virtual connectivity, decreased physical necessity and becomes a catalyst of ones self (egosphere). Speed can be categorized as technology.- The physical boundary is more powerful than we think, mentally it completely governs us.- Technology eliminates the barrier and ones self is multiplied to the far reaches of connectivity.
TRANSVERSE SECTION 1 TRANSVERSE SECTION 2 TRANSVERSE SECTION 3
1ST FLOOR PLAN
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multiple stakeholders promote optimal mixed usage on a single property
max potential achieved using template morphology begins to take over
modules and grid begin to deviate achieving better connections and aesthetic values
school, library, theatre and housing
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SLAB AND CORE MAX BUILDABLE AREA TOLERANCE
PROGRAM DISSOLUTION
SUBTRACTION
GRID MANIPULATION
CONNECTIONS
Establish a new mixed use housing arrangement:
Step 1- Start a hierarchal order, then eliminate it...- Horizontal slab abolished - Vertical plain as physical and visual connectorsStep 2- All program conformed to a 3d grid which is used to add other forms and act as a template for formal alignmentStep 3- Program specified- Residential program begins to cluster- Other program scatters to serve clusters at all levels
PROGRAM DISSOLUTION GRID MANIPULATION
CONNECTIONS
STRUCTURE
FINAL FORM
COMPLETIONCLUSTERS
HUMAN INTERACTION
TOLERANCE
What has this project changed about the design and way of life of a multi unit residence?- We no longer have rigid foam but more of a flexible one.- Through the inclusion of double height lofts, atriums, transparent cladding and open stair cases the primitive mental and physical block, which feeds the apathetic result of abandonment of the effort of social interaction, is eliminated and instigates the discovery and friendship individuals can experience together. The shell has been breached the bubble is burst.- The ideology of the meek seeking a vacuous habitat is now replaced by the bond of student body and family. The collective is dependant but stronger. - Social sites that accentuate the egoshpere, such as facebook, are replaced with a physical structure of linkage both social (theatres) and educational (libraries), the building replaces facebook.- Plans have been orientated such that only basic needs such as washroom and bed are atomized to an extent.- The essence of living is being able to sleep at ones own place, here the building provides that only separation where the bed placement is flexible and users sleep anywhere.
5TH FLOOR PLAN
4TH FLOOR PLAN
3RD FLOOR PLAN
STRUCTURE
CORRIDOR
RESIDENCE
THEATRE
INSTITUTIONAL
CONNECTORS
LONGITUDINAL SECTION 1
LONGITUDINAL SECTION 2
thetorontodeltas The Thesis addresses the current Waterfront Master plan (lower Don Lands) in Toronto yet taking a different phased develop-ment approach by amplifying its factors as well as tackling new ones such as land ownerships between levels of govern-ment at the site just south of it (portlands). This is possible by means of maximizing flood paths and water filtration of the Don River, therefore alleviating worst case scenario flooding as well as maximizing recreation, circulation efficiency, ecosystem diversity, program typologies and waterfront development opportunities due to the increase of shore line. Thus a regional destina-tion and a mediation between governmental desires has been created out of the final barrier between Toronto and the lake.
beach (soft)
wetland (soft)
waterfront edge typologies
hardscape + edge
deck
river + side road river + main road side road+ main street
side road+ side road
side road + soft edge
side road+ hard edge
main road + soft edge
main road + hard edge
building/program typologies
point tower (residential)
mid - low rise row apartments (residential, commercial)
perimeter band w/ tower (residential, office, commercial)
perimeter band cantilever/bridge (residential, office)
building/program to edge typologies
commercial + hard
commercial + river/deck
commercial + beach (soft)
residential + beach (soft)
residential + river/deck
office + hard
office + woodland (soft)
office + wetlands (soft)
office + river
population types
single couples family
residential + hard
office + beach
river alignment/massing manipulator
STEP 1: TYPOLOGY FILTER
TYPOLOGY MATRIX
STEP 2: CONDITIONAL FACTORS STEP 3: RESULTANTS
river
woodland (soft)
boat (residential, commercial)
perimeter conditionsriver + deck
beach (soft)
wetland (soft)
edge typologies
hardscape + edge
deck
river
woodland
building/program typologies
point tower (residential)
mid - low rise row apartments(residential, commercial)
perimeter band w/ tower (residential, office, commercial)
perimeter band cantilever/bridge(residential, office)
boat (residential, commercial)
road types
main road side road
building/program
commercial + hard
commercial + rive
commercial + beac
residential + beac
residential + river/
residential hard
office + hardffi h d
office + woodland
office + wetlands (
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commercialhard edge/surface
commercialdeck
commercialbeach
residentialbeach
residentialdeck
residentialhard edge/surface
officehard edge/surface
officesoft surface (eco)
officesoft surface (eco)
officeriver
officebeach
green space = 130 acreswater area = 35 acres
water frontage = 5530 meters
green space = 78 acreswater area = 75 acres
water frontage = 6345 meters
soft edge = 4800 metershard edge = 2550 meters
soft edge = 8515 metershard edge = 3850 meters
lrt stops = 6 road coverage = 10450 meters
lrt stops = 10 road coverage = 7708 metres GREEN CORRIDOR
DON RIVER FLOW
GREEN CORRIDOR
DON RIVER FLOW
PHYSICAL / PROGRAMMATIC BARRIERS
Torontos East Waterfront is notorious for its inaccessibility due to semi- derelict/contaminated industrial properties. This programmatic barrier is also a physical one where the Don Valleys green corridor ends abruptly at the Don Rivers mouth which brings an entire watershed amount of runoff to an almost perpendicular flow path; perfect for debris back up and flooding. This thesis will investigate multiple approaches, existing and proposed, to the site which aims to maximize
long forgotten qualities of the region.
In order to find a solution, the project starts by analyzing the prime concern of flooding and its source as well as the invisible barriers of land ownership. Once these are analyzed the project then takes a critical look at the existing master plan of the Waterfront and researches the taken steps to how they arrived at their conclu-sion. Finally the project is geared to take into account all these factors and maximize the potential of the existing Master plan by increas-ing flood alleviation, naturalization, ecosystem and wildlife diversity, circulation, recreation and
built form typologies.
THE PROBLEM: BARRIERS
maps reinterpreted from: Google Earth
FLOODING
The Don Valley watershed spans beyond Toronto city limits thus accumulating runoff from the suburbs. The problem with surface permeability becomes an issue, without the absorbance of rain water, surface runoff spills into the valley flooding the Don River. The mouth is most problematic due to its perpendicular flow course which is susceptible not only to flooding but surface debris and sediment leading to frequent surface cleanup and dredging. Clearly the naturalization of the Don river mouth is priority in
order for any master plan to survive.
LEASING
Currently the municipal government has undertaken a masterplan to naturalize the mouth of the river however almost all of its lands are currently under lease. Therefore time is a factor in terms of the city unlocking lands
to develop a Master plan.
THE PROBLEM: FLOOD PLAINS, LAND OWNERSHIPS AND LEASES
POINT OFBACKUP
DON RIVER FLOW
20051995
SURFACE PERMEABILITY
DON VALLEY WATERSHED
FLOOD VULNERABLE LOCATION
FLOOD CONTROL STRUCTURE
SPILL ZONE 1 SPILL ZONE 2SPILL ZONE 3
1< year lease1-5 year lease
5-10 year lease10+ year lease
west don river
lower don
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east don river
german mills creek
taylor masseycreek
G. Lord Rossdam
Yonge/York Millschannel
Massey Creek
channel
YMHA/Sheppard
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MUNICIPALprofit
employmenthousing
environmental stewardshipeconomic potential
PROVINCIALprofit
clean energy sourcesproperty to house provincial
affiliations gentrification
housing
FEDERALprofit
properties producing income
marine transportation (economic, recreational)internationally acclaimed
venues
PRIVATEprofit
property ownership employment gentrification
LAND OWNERSHIP What makes this site more unique are the invisible barriers that plague it. All forms of government as well as private landowners have a share at the Waterfront. This leads to development disagreements as well as different motives for land use. In the end, each party is looking for economic gain where no single party wants to be excluded from the potential economic revenue of a completed Waterfront. The municipal and provincial governments are the closest in terms of the vision, that being economy, naturalization and energy sustainabil-ity. The parties that have semi introverted visions include the federal party which desires purely economic gain of the port and some of the private sector members which income as well as physical land rights are vital for their needs.
data reinterpreted from: Waterfront Toronto, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA)
data reinterpreted from: Waterfront Toronto, Toronto Port Lands Company (TPLC)
maps reinterpreted from: Google Earth
green space = 0 acres green space = 130 acres
existing scheme primary Don plan
existing scheme primary Don plan
water area = 25 acres water area = 35 acres
water frontage = 5120 meters water frontage = 5530 meters
existing scheme primary Don plan
GREEN CORRIDOR
DON RIVER FLOW
PHYSICAL / PROGRAMMATIC BARRIERS
THE PROPOSAL: THE STUBBORN BARRIER & COMPARISON TO PROBLEM
Toronto has held an international design competition to create a master plan for the waterfront. The winner was Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. The design was responsive to what Toronto needed. But what was different about their design from the rest of the entries was their close attention to an Environmental Assessment preformed by the city a few years before the competition. MVVA researched where the main river and its secondary discharge canals would be most effective in terms of constructive viability, infrastructure integration, naturalization and flood alleviation. This project analyzes the MVVA plan and reinterprets the data from the environmental assessment in order to justify their
process as well as the steps to take for the portlands. But why would we need to add on to an acclaimed Master plan by a famous and experienced firm? Is there something wrong with this plan? Absolutely not! Its designed with great responsibility based on the resources analyzed in this project. Then whats the problem? A barrier still exists. The region south of the Master plan has not changed and is in larger jeopardy of underdevelopment due to different land owners (Federal) staking claim there. The point of the project is to create a scheme that mediates and compensates landowners involved, utilizes the research concerning the EA and apply appropriate naturalization and flood alleviation strategies which would in turn maximize recreation and economic opportunities. The solution here is to remove both barriers completely and still create a plan that melds
with the existing one and maximizes its fundamentals.
data reinterpreted from: MVV Associates, TRCA environmental assessment of Don River Mouth (June 2006)
THE SOLUTION: RIVER NATURALIZATION & ECOSYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION
green space = 28 acres
RIPARIAN SECTION
woodlands = 33 acres seepage wetlands = 3 acres levee wetlands = 6 acreswetlands = 40 acres
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT CURRENT MASTERPLAN ELIMINATE ALL BARRIERSRESEARCH THE PROBLEM: APPLY THE SOLUTION: MAXIMIZE THE SOLUTION:
SINGLE FLOW ROUTEpros:
constructibilityrecreation opportunities
cons:flood protection
naturalization
SINGLE FLOW ROUTE + 2 OVERFLOW SPILLWAYS
pros:constructibility
infratructure integrationcons:cost
MVVA MASTER PLANthe application of the preffered option from the EA. the masterplan then integrates built form, programmatic strategies and infrastructure resulting in a new communtity with naturalized waterflow and
edges.
EXTENDED RIVER PAST CHANEL
the same strategy is applied by continuing the river flow past perpindicular routes. the river further relieves flooding by providing nearly direct access to
lake ontario.
TRIBUTARIES by adding tributaties we introduce further water filtration due to the increase of edge exposure to potetential ecologies. we also open up more opportunities for water edge development and recretional
activities.
FORMATION OF DELTASeach island can now have its own community with its own programmatic requirements. the possiblities of beaches exist due to increased water filtration. flood waters now dissapate faster from maximized flow
routes.
RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM
The channel in between the two Master plans acts as the previous channel being perpendicular to the flow. By cutting through it and continuing South towards the lake the potential of water buildup is negated. From there, tributaries are introduced which eventually carve the southern part of the site in to deltas. From there the same ecological strategies applied by the MVVA plan is done here by introducing a Riparian ecosystem. There runoff will be absorbed properly as well as encouraging natural habitats. Wetlands are vital and provide wildlife
diversity, water retention and water filtration.
phase 1:hydraulic flow and filtration
flow route
phase 2a:excavation
land placement
land excavation
phase 2b:land placement
previous edge
landfill
phase 3a:topography
contour line (1m)
phase 3b:ecological core - number of
ecosystems greater at center for maximum filtration at
river divergance
4 ecosystem types
3 ecosystem types
3-2 ecosytem types
2-1 ecosystem types
phase 3c:final contours
contour line (1m)
contour line (underwater) (1m)
phase 3d:development allocation
total environmental arealower donlands = 90 acres
port lands = 164 acres
allotted land fordevelopment
arterials
side streets
phase 4:major arterials and
side streets
phase 4:lrt route & stops
lrt route
lrt stops
phase 4:5 min. walking radius
lrt stops
5 min walking radius
phase 5:completed plan
Federal
Provincial
Municipal
Profit (under lease to city)Properties producing incomeMarine transportation (economic, recreational & all boat launches)Internationally acclaimed city
ProfitClean energy sourcesProperty for ministries Gentrification for city and provinceEnvironmental stewardship (new provincial park: waterway class)Internationally acclaimed city
Profit (leasable property)EmploymentHousingEnvironmental stewardshipInternationally acclaimed city
phase 5:political mediation &
compensation
what they get...
The tributaries are confirmed. They are then developed to be secondary and
tertiary spillways of the main river. The existing outline of the site remains.
The excavations of the tributaries are used to extend the edges to increase
buildable surface area. The excavated material is poured out from the edges which provide opportunities for more
riparian ecosystems, increased waterfront development as well as an orientation
towards downtown Toronto.
The shape of the land is more organic than the previous site. This is homage to
the original Don River which was land filled some 100 years ago. The irony here
is that this naturalization comes from mans effort which makes it still inherently
artificial.
Topography was placed as a first step to allocate where riparian ecosystems would
be as well as where built form will be placed and how it would meet the rivers edge. The buildable surfaces also had to be higher than worst case scenario flood
levels.
This small citys core does not consist of high-rises or other buildings; in fact it
consists only of ecosystems becoming a nature park. The greater the amount of ecosystems placed at the center (river
divergence) the greater the water filtration. Its an organic central park with
rivers and canoeing available to enjoy.
The bathymetry of the river bed is just as important as the surface topography. The
bathymetry regulates where levee wetland will be placed, where deep and
shallow spawning pools will be for wildlife and finally to adjust the flow of marine
crafts in the area.
Plateaus have been placed to where the major developments would be. The
ecosystem placements are finalized and integrate with the MVVA plan.
A semi loop acts as the main arterial road to the site where smaller side streets are
used to get to interior buildings. Side streets include spaces for loading as well
as entrances to underground parking.
Light rail transit stops are placed along the major arterial. Each island in the
community gets at least one LRT stop. In order to integrate with the MVVA plan
additional LRT stops are added there to close the gap.
These are the 5 minute walking radii of where each LRT stop is proposed. The length of road is 30% less than of the
MVVA plan but covers at least an equal amount of land area.
The final plan consists of all these factors mentioned as well as the typology matrix
on the first board. The urban scheme process also demonstrates how and why the buildings are shaped and placed the
way they are.
In order for this project to be feasible a compensation and mediation plan must be
devised. Although the logistics are quite complicated this project attempts to
simplify it into major points. First the municipal government takes a bond from
the federal government. The feds give money for the construction and all design
and development rights to the municipality. However in order for the city to pay the
federal government back a) all water and boating activities are under federal
jurisdiction so they can maintain some form of port authority and b) the feds
would own some property to lease back to the city as well as private businesses. The province would also have a part by having
jurisdiction over the first man made Provincial Park. These green spaces would
be safe from development and be categorized as a waterway park which
promotes canoeing, kayaking and other aquatic activities. Therefore city would not only have a stable rate to pay the federal government and have a provincial park in
their backyard but a brand new waterfront for everyone to enjoy.
THE SOLUTION: PROCESS AND POLITICAL MEDIATION
urban scheme developmentphase 1 & 2
row density implementation
urban scheme developmentphase 5 & 6
radial plotallocation
row density manipulation:-maximize surface exposure-follow river curvature
urban scheme developmentphase 3 & 4
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-edge access-building setbacks-edge maximization-green space allocation
density increasefurther setback implementation
THE SOLUTION: SECTIONS AND THE MICRO SCALE
blending to Lake Ontario park
residential tower
mixed use towers
residential ribbon
recreational public boat launch
the new don river
commercial / restaurant
suspendedpedestrian walkway
mixed use towers
pedestrian boardwalk
pedestrian boardwalk
mixed use towers
mixed use towers
pier and public docks
boat houses / shops
the beachprovincial waterway park
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