a space for reading In this 2 week project students were asked to design a highly contextualized space for reading on a chosen site within Edworthy Park, Calgary. All materials used in the design were to be analogous or directly attributed to materials/objects found on site. […]
Beginning from a simple hexagon, this project, under the trajectory of parametric exploration, simply sought the coherence of performative characteristics. As time passed, and as knowledge and capabilities with software increased, worthy geometries emerged. However, these worthy geometries, and their co-present performative characteristics, had their […]
turcot 375, Turcot 375 was an alternative proposal to the turcot interchange reconstruction led by Pierre Gauthier, associate professor, Concordia University. This poster was made for presentation to the media and local politicians, including CBC, the Montreal Gazette, as well as many prominent local politicians. studio […]
This competition, my first solo design project, involved the re-design of the streetscape for the area surrounding the Henry F. Hall building, the largest building within the downtown Sir George William’s Campus of Concordia University. A community visioning session was the required impetus for all submissions. […]
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 […]
The first semester of the final full year design studio centred on mostly individual weekly labs that were presented as panel boards. The following four pages display unaltered examples of the topics explored and approaches considered.
project completed with Natasha Abouaccar, Valerie Cullen, Nicolas Hammond, & Tom McGurk The second semester of the first full-year design studio centred on the application of a tramway through Montreal’s historic waterfront, a pathway that threads the threshold between Old Montreal and the Old Port. The […]
project completed with Jade Layton, Jeremy Kloet, Ricardo Hernandez, & Tom McGurk The first semester of the first year-long design studio centred on the application of the principals of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) to an existing station area in Montreal’s metro network. This project outlines our team’s […]
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