project completed with Tom McGurk and Ricardo Hernandez

A three member team composed the final design project of the final year-long design studio which concerned the Turcot Yards, a controversial site in Montréal’s contemporary development. The site, an abandoned shipping and rail yard where highways and rail lines crisscross through a massive terrain vague, demanded a new approach to large scale planning. Specifically, due to cost issues and the incredibly large scale of the site, an open-ended flexible approach was initially agreed upon by the team. This approach was largely informed by our personal interest in the writings of James Corner, Charles Waldheim, Nan Ellin, Alan Berger, Stan Allen, Keller Easterling, among many others. We felt that these writers’ calls for a more Deleuzian awareness to urban development were highly appropriate for complications associated with the site.