Portfolio Aziz Bahou M.Arch Candidate, B. Eng
Water Education Centre
University of Toronto: Master of Architecture - Winter 2014 Instructor: Mason White
Key View-points
Termination of the 501 Queen Street Car
Circulation
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A Water Education Centre is desired at one of the most iconic sites in Toronto: the R C Harris Water Treatment Plant. The existing plant was constructed between 1932-1941 and was designed in the Art Deco and Modern Classicism style. The Centre would educate the general public on the water cycle, while facilitating controlled access to a heavily secured essential water infrastructure complex. The programs desired for the project ranged from a lecture hall, exhibition spaces to a recreational swimming facility.
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Five interventions were proposed to promote circulation throughout the site. Moreover, each intervention is connected with the existing facilities physically (the northernmost intervention is connected to the underground settling basins.
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1 Lobby and Entrance 2 Large Exhibiton Space 3 Lecture Hall (Underground) 4 Space to View the Site 5 Library 6 Small Exhibiton Space 7 Offices 8 Board Room 9 Archives 10 Large Exterior Space for Public Events 11 Small Exterior Space for Private Events
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After analysing the site, it was apparent that circulation was concentrated in the western portion of the site. That might be attributed to the fact that the Queen St. streetcar terminates at the north-western corner of the site.
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The program was scattered and then arranged according to it being private or public to further promote circulation.
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1:2000 1 Lobby and Entrance 2 Large Exhibiton Space 3 Lecture Hall (Underground) 4 Lobby and Entrance to the Filtration Building 5 Library and Archives 6 Small Exhibiton Space 7 View of the Filtration tanks (Underground) 8 Offices 9 Board Room 10 Men’s Locker-room 11 Women’s Locker-room 12 Spa
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An axonometric drawing of the north-western intervention. This intervention contains an exhibition space and an underground viewing platform for the underground filtration basins. This is an example of an intervention that is attached to an existing facility both physically and visually.
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Two swimming facilities were introduced at the southern most intervention. One of the swimming facility is an infinity edge and chlorinated pool. The pool is divided into an olympic lap and recreational sections. The second swimming facility is a beach like surface that is open to the lake.
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1 Spa Reception 2 Washrooms 3 Massage Rooms 4 Lounge 5 Women’s Locker-Room 6 Men’s Locker-Room 7 Steam Room 8 Steam Generator (Off the Filtration Facade*) 9 Beach like Surface 10 Recreational Swimming Pool 11 Lap Pool 12 Filtered Water to the Pools (Off the Filtration Facade*) 13 Pumping Station - R C Harris Water Treatment Plant
All the interventions adopt a similar structural configuration and facade detail. They have a solid “filtration“ wall in the east - west elevations, and a transparent horizontal glass panelled facade in the north - south elevations. The glass panelled facade consists of horizontal glass panels that are supported with vertical-structural glass fins from the inside. The horizontal glass panels are each frosted to a degree that depends on the program behind it.
Inclined Roof and Parapet
Structural System: Columns, Beams and Glass Fins
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Water Filtration Path
Water Filtration Path
The “filtration“ wall is basically a wall with two solid glass panels that contain the filtration material used in filtering the water in the original facility. The wall filters storm water collected on the roof of each intervention. The filtered storm water is then used for the swimming pool, for gardens and for drinking. The use of the filtered water depends on the intervention and its location
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Span and Column
University of Toronto: Master of Architecture - Fall 2013 Instructor: Zachary Hinchliffe
Circular Grid Truncated Cones (Basic Building Units - Thin-shell)
Hierarchy
Part I In part I we studied thin-shell structures and how they behave when they aggregate to produce a stronger structure. Then we used the findings of that analysis to span a site.
Rotation about X and Y Axis
Development
Rotation about X and Y Axes Arrangement
Transformation (Rotation about 3 Axes)
Flip, Elevate and Add Columns
Flip Truncated Cone
Circular Grid
Column
Part II In part II we used the language and findings of part I to produce a two level building with a circulation element and two programs: Ping pong tables and a bleacher system to view an adjacent sports field. Stacking of our original building unit was the main principle of producing this structure.
Hierarchy
Transform Cone
Arrangement (Radial)
Stacking
Final Arrangement (Radial and Tangential)
Enclosure by Subtraction
Roof Plan
Front Elevation
Long Section
Urban Oasis
Columbia GSAPP: Introduction to Architecture - Summer 2012 Instructors: Patrick R O’Connor and George Valdes
This conceptual project was based on designing an Urban Oasis in Manhattan, New York City. The site was at the lively and dynamic intersection of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem. The project was divided into two parts. The first is to analyse the intensive and extensive qualities of the site, and to develop a conceptual physical model that portrays these qualities. The second part was to use that physical model to propose an urban oasis with 3 programs of our choosing.
Analytical Drawing: Human Circulation Pattern and Viewpoints (Based on 120° Field of View)
Design Logic An analytical model was then generated by the aggregating a number of modules.
Basic Building Unit Cone Generated = Field of Vision
Aggregation
Secondary Building Unit 3 Basic Units
Aggregation of Secondary Units
Physical Mode Aggregation of basic building units in a
el Development a “Swirling“ motion and the final product.
Parametric Curtain Wall
University of Toronto: Master of Architecture - Winter 2014 Instructor: Brady Peters
Parametric Data Levels Generating Curves
Generation Curves
Surface Through Lofting
Surface through Lofting
Wireframe Extraction
Wire frame Extraction
An investigation was carried out using Grasshopper in order to test Panels Through Offsetting out a curtain wall that might be applicable to a project underdevelopment.
Panels Through Offsetting
Structural System (Ribs) Through Extrusion
Structural System (Ribs) through Extrusion Beams Depth and Width was parametrized
Final Structure Assembled
Final Structure Assembled
Iterations Considered
Physical Model Study