NOTE: I largely played a design-assist role in this project. It was primarily executed by Rachel Belliveau. A more in-depth explanation can be found here. The inherent goal of this project was to bring a considerable level of design to a small low-priced condominium, in a […]
Topographical mapping techniques rely on more than just contour lines to provide clarity and functionality. Their contour lines are almost always accompanied by other information conveying surface features such as ecological zones, roads of trails, settlements or other points of interest. Also critically important to […]
This stretched canvas is a composite of over 80 screenshots displaying northern Texas’s unique agricultural built landscape from above. Here, irrigated crops forming richly varied green circles, and large cattle feedlots forming deep brown spots, along with the more typical middle-American gridded road network lay an abstract patterned […]
Through a thorough analysis of the conditions and relationships between public space and public architecture in the west end of downtown Calgary, this project seeks to position three major pieces of public architecture—a market, a community centre, and a recreation centre—along with a major public […]
This project is a direct interpretation of the ‘Landscape Archives Masterplan’, which was an earlier project in the semester in Barcelona. Here, one block is transformed from a largely underutilized urban space lacking pubic amenities, to one that is densely and purposefully designed to provide […]
an aboriginal cultural centre Project completed with Krista Lauridsen Aipoyaakokii is an aboriginal cultural centre situated on the banks of the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta, on traditional Blackfoot territory. The project focuses on the urban first nations person and the renewed interest in culture […]
a multi-use urban agricultural complex Located along a high-street at the edge of two tight knit inner-city neighbourhoods, this large multi-use urban agricultural complex seeks to fit in by pulling itself apart into its constituent parts. This dis-aggregation on the ground plane creates multiple paths and […]
a locavore restaurant, brewery, and cooking school Field is a restaurant, brewery, and cooking school that focuses on creating a dining experience (meals, drinks, and the knowledge behind them), that is rooted in a regional and immediate place and time. Here, local is not a […]
the reading of a site (Kensington, Calgary, AB) This two week project centred on the performance of a site analysis through the construction of a table, using only one 50″x 50″ sheet of 1/2″ baltic birch plywood. Kensington is a dynamic inner-city neighbourhood that retains […]
a landscape interpretive centre The final 4 week project of Studio 1 asked that a landscape interpretive centre be designed within a 50x50m site chosen in Edworthy Park, Calgary. Analysis of the site had been occurring throughout the previous projects during the semester. Here, our design was to reflect the […]
exploring parallax through torque This project focused on material and tectonic explorations, within the framework of designing through the construction of fragments at a 1:1 scale. Only 3 materials were to be used: 1/4 inch plywood, conventional 8 foot 2x4s, and any type of woven […]
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. […]
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