STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS
ARCHITECTURAL/URBAN
DESIGN STRATEGY FOR ST. JAMESTOWN SPCCE ARCHITECTS
13 DESIGN STRATEGY
12 VISION / GOALS / OBJECTIVES
11 SITE ANAYLSIS
10 HISTORICAL CONTEXT
4 DESIGN PRINCIPLES
3 STEVEN HOLL
ESTABLISHED IN 1976, STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS INITIATED ITS PRACTICE IN ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DESIGN IN OFFICES LOCATED IN NEW YORK AND MOST RECENTLY IN BEIJING.
STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
SPEED OF SHADOW (pressure of light)
THE REVELATIONS OF NEW SPACES, LIKE INTERWOVEN LANGUAGES, DISSOLVE AND REAPPEAR IN LIGHT
POROSITY (void space)
A NEW TOPOLOGICAL OPENNESS IN THE FORM OF A FIELD THAT EXTENDS TO A “HORIZON-STRUCTURE”
CORRELATIONAL PROGRAMMING
(programming functionality) QUESTIONS, COMPARES, AND CONTEMPLATES DIVERSE COMBINATIONS WITHOUT ABSOLUTE CLAIMS TO INSTRUMENTALITY. ITS PURPOSE IS TO MAKE ONE THINK, AND TO OCCUPY SPACE IN NEW WAYS
CRISS CROSSING (movement)
A NEW TOPOLOGICAL OPENNESS IN THE FORM OF A FILED THAT EXTENDS TO A “HORIZON-STRUCTURE”
ENMESHED EXPERIENCE (in-between reality)
THE CONCEPTUAL LOGIC THAT DRIVES A DESIGN IS LINKED TO ITS ULTIMATE PERCEPTION
Pre-war Period Occupied by the upper middle class. Low rise, low density comprising of Victorian homes.
Activity level
War Time War causes increase in war based manufacturing causing stagnation of other industries including construction. Leads to housing shortage and families sharing dwellings.
St. James Town
HISTORICAL CONTEXT Baby boom, housing shortage and mass car traffic cause massive expansion of suburbs. Downtown is rezoned to accommodate high density housing including St. Jamestown. High rise apartment developments are erected for young couples and professionals as high rises give the greatest density per land use and ultimately greater revenue. Torontonians dislike the removal of older building style (which fostered a specific preferred wholesome family development) and began to move to communities like the Annex in an attempt to preserve what remained of such communities within Toronto. Poor immigrants, now allowed easier access to Canada, occupy these high rise developments. Immigrants concerned with quality of life as opposed to building community. Less activity among community members opens street level up to many social negatives. Jamestown with its bad reputation becomes a place where new immigrants only start their lives in Canada. They do not wish to remain as the community is not a place to raise a family. Statistics and residents confirm that it is not a pleasant place to be. It is a space that is in need of change in order for it to be experienced in a positive way.
Post-war
Parliament St Bloor St E
Sherbourne St
Wellesley St E
BUILT FORM
MAJOR STREETS
GREEN SPACES
Rosedale-Moore Park
St James Town
SITE ANAYLSIS
Cabbagetown
NEIGHBORHOODS
INTERNAL STREETS
65 Bus Route
75 Subway Route
94
Bus Route
Bus Route
IMMEDIATE SITE
TRANSIT ROUTES
HARD SURFACE
VISION using diversity of the community to create a positive identity
GOALS integrate a diverse array of social classes and cultures create positive spaces that can be observed and allow for interaction on varying levels from different perspectives
OBJECTIVES providing housing that caters to an array of socio-economic classes creating social activity areas on different levels to increase lighting into the site to promote a safer environment to increase the interaction of the site with its surroundings through porosity increase the green space and reduce paved surface area increase energy and water efficiency and introduce sustainable features
DESIGN STRATEGY
ENMESHED EXPERIENCE
CORRELATIONAL PROGRAMMING
APPLICATION TO SITE
SPEED OF SHADOW POROSITY CRISS CROSSING