BLAKE COSTLEY
WORKS
SENTINELS
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REQUIEM
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WATERSCAPES
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PLOVDIV CENTRAL SQUARE
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CAPTIVE LANDSCAPES
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CONVERGE / DIVERGE
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STUDIO CHAIR
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ULTRA JOURNAL
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DANIEL EVAN WHITE EXPOSITION
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WORKS
CURRICULUM VITAE
E D U C AT I O N 2015-2017
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY M.Arch - Masters of Architecture - School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
2014-2015
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Masters of Architecture - School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
2010-2013
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA B.EnDs - Bachelor of Environmental Design [Honours] - School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture
2009-2010
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Graphic Design - School of Interactive Arts and Technology
A WA R D S & A C H E I V E M E N T S 2017
CANADIAN ARCHITECT STUDENT AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE Nomination 120HR COMPETITION HONOURABLE MENTION Published on ArchDaily WORKS SELECTED FOR PUBLISH IN ULTRA JOURNAL
2016
ALBERTA ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTRS - CECIL SCOTT BURGESS SCHOLARSHIP GEC AWARD OF EXCELLENCE IN COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN MURRAY W. WATERMAN AWARD
2015
QUEEN ELIZABETH II SCHOLARSHIP WORK SELECTED FOR PUBLISH IN THE ANNUAL
2013
DANIELS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ENTRY AWARD DANIEL EVAN WHITE EXHIBITION Recognition of Contribution - Museum of Vancouver UBC “FACES OF TODAY” NOMINATION University of British Columbia Student Leadership Conference
2009
HILL FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP Academic Achievement - 2009 -2016
BLAKE COSTLEY
EXPERIENCE 2017
ULTRA JOURNAL EDITOR • Editor, Publisher, Graphic Designer
2016
MARC BOUTIN ARCHITECTURAL COLLABORATIVE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDENT • Eau Clair Plaza Redevelopment (Calgary) • Sandhu Residence (Edmonton)
2013
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO TEACHING ASSISTANT • Visual Communications I + Visual Communications II
2015
DIALOG ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDENT • Mount Royal Libary (Calgary) • Banff Gondola (Calgary) • Fort Calgary Expansion (Calgary) • Kelly Ramsey (Edmonton)
2009
NEOTA DESIGNER + ADVERTISER • Graphic/Web Designer • Photography and Videography
S O F T WA R E + S K I L L S SOFTWARE • AutoCad, Vectorworks • Rhinocerios, Grasshopper, Sketchup • Variety of rendering engines, including Vray, TheaRender etc. • Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator DIGITAL FABRICATION • CNC Milling • 3D Printing • Laser Cutting PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO • Experience in both digital photography + film • Portrait and Video Lighting
C O N TA C T blake.costley@gmail.com
STUDIO PROJECTS SENTINELS
REQUIEM
WATERSCAPES
PLOVDIV CENTRAL SQUARE
CAPTIVE LANDSCAPES
SENTINELS
Regional Cultural Network
Studio: M.Arch Studio 6 Location: Calgary AB Rural communities across the prairies face declining populations as younger generations flock to cities for education, work, and cultural opportunities beyond the offerings of their towns. The Sentinels project is aimed at re-purposing the industrial spaces once used for the importing and exporting of agricultural resources into an infrastructure for the importing and exporting of cultural and intellectual goods. Using a strategy of deployable inflatable spaces, Sentinels can reoccupy derelict structures and railway corridors to form new spatial relationships between program, space, and existing buildings. Occupying disused railway networks across Southern Alberta, inflatable Sentinels are able to travel easily from one community to another. Re-purposing grain elevators and their infrastructure as a network of community hubs and educational centers, the Sentinels present an opportunity to adapt the forgotten industries of small towns to a new regional cultural network.
SOUTHERN ALBERTA
RAILWAY NETWORK
ARRIVAL
DEPLOYMENT
OCCUPATION
The concept of the Sentinels project is built around the idea of regional cultural co-operation. Communities that might not be able to afford social and cultural amenities because of size and demand can instead share program between towns and cities in the region. Program and the spaces that contain them become mobile, traveling by rail and setting up in spaces once used for the importing and exporting of agricultural goods. Abandoned elevators and industrial spaces are cleared of their storage containers and equipment to make new space for occupation. Following a carnival by train model of the early 20th century, train cars are packed with deployable architecture and program. Inflatable spaces expand into open rail right of ways and old elevators to form new spatial relationships with the community. Operating in the ghost of a once vibrant rail network and grain elevator system, Sentinels presents new opportunities for aging communities and infrastructure, asking onlookers to rethink the forgotten spaces that once defined the prairie landscape.
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NANTON AB
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MONUMENT
MAUSOLEUM
COLUMBARIA
CHAPEL
CATACOMB
TOMB
TYPOLOGIES OF DEATH IN ARCHITECTURE
LANDSCAPE OF DEATH IN CALGARY SITE
THE URBAN
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death & memory
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ntemporary city? Death once played
REQUIEM
AND THE CONTEMPORARY CITY
an context; a constant presence Monuments and chapels stood as
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Studio: M.Arch Studio 4 Location: Calgary AB
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of death in the contemporary city,
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What role does death play in the contemporary city? Death once played an integral role in shaping our urban context; a constant presence in the physical form of our cities. Monuments and chapels stood as the centering points of our urban centers. Now in the modern city the forms of death have been institutionalized and pushed to the periphery. The city hides death from its citizens, passing the tasks once reserved to the family behind walls of institutions. Requiem seeks to question the role of death in the contemporary city, and propose new ways of existing alongside death and the departed. RIGHT: A view inside the collumbarium facade, demonstrating the wooden grid that forms both the container for the urns as well as the substructure for the facade.
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Located at a centering point in Calgary’s urban fabric, the building acts as a bridge between the periphery and the downtown core. The building spans one of Calgary’s two main rivers and connects the program of urban in the core and the institutions of death on its periphery.
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LEFT: View from below the collumbarium TOP: Massing Model 1:200 ABOVE: Interior sketch looking South-East
“To re-examine death as a contemporary activity, I began by looking at the program, arranging what I had as functions of the everyday with the program of a crematorium and collumbarium. As I began to play with the ideas of public and private I decided that I wanted death and the everyday program both separate but a constant presence. So the building itself would be wrapped in a columbaria, and the program would exist on the inside, and in this way the death would become an ever present part of the daily activity.� The building itself began as a square, with the columbaria forming the circulation and facade on the periphery, while the everyday program forms the interior. The
building is raised up and out of the flood plane of the site, and the floor plates are carved away in places where the cantilever became too large or where the floor plates required more internal light.
WATERSCAPES
R.C. HARRIS WATER EDUCATION CENTRE
Studio: M.Arch Studio 2 Location: University of Toronto, Toronto ON Located at the terminus of Queen St, The R.C. Harris Water Treatment Facility serves as a critical corner stone in the Water infrastructure of the Greater Toronto Area. But while its built form stands as a monument, its role as a mediator between Lake Ontario and Toronto remains discrete with most of its functions buried beneath the landscape. Waterscapes aims to answer the question of how does one make tangible the monumental utility that is R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plan. By inverting the relationship between built form and water, the Water Education Centre forms a new landscape where the discrete space of water replaces the role of the overt and the monumental, allowing a direct interaction between water and visitor.
R.C. Harris Water Education Centre Site Plan 1:1000 ARC1042 - Assignment 2 Cameron Blake Costley
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The program of the Waterscapes called for both an water educational centre and a recreational complex that could accommodate a large variety of program. The rooftop itself is filled with 2cm of water, forming the waterscape, becoming the primary surface of interaction with the visitor. Visitors traverse the waterscape to enter the building itself. The surface bends down towards the ground, forming vortexes that act as the structure, pools, and the main entry to the lobby. The vortexes are meant to instill a sense of near infinite depth while also acting as light wells for the interior space. Water then becomes a lens through which the entire project is viewed
PLOVDIV CENTRAL SQUARE BULGARIA CENTRAL SQUARE COMPETITION
Studio: M.Arch Studio 1 Location: University of Toronto, Toronto ON This competition requested the design of a pavilion that served both as a canopy for recently uncovered ruins as well as a programmable and occupied structure. The project tasked the designer with the challenge to create a object that could be derived from the folding of a single piece of paper. From that exercise came a geometric mountainous landscape that encourages expansion and contraction, allowing the visitor to explore the ruins and experience a sense of discovery as they navigate the sequence of spaces. Light and shadow would become a driving force for the project, forming caverns and oculi inspired from the experiential qualities of cave diving .
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CAPTIVE LANDSCAPES CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE + URBANISM
Studio: M.Arch Studio 4 Partner: John Ferguson The collective perception of Canadian natural landscapes is one that is deeply entrenched in the idea of the remote, the untouched, and the expansive. Canadian cities are perceived as islands within the untamed landscape; the urban captured within an uninhabited expanse. But the relationship between the city and its hinterland is far more complex, as the city is formed in both conjunction and opposition to its natural surrounding. The ideal grid of the North American city collides with its geographic plane to create a dynamic field of inhabitation. Architecture and landscape traditionally become archipelago in the form of parks and buildings enclosed within the urban network. Captive Landscapes seeks to distill moments of collective landscape experience through architectural encapsulation, questioning the manner by which architecture situates itself in relationship to both the landscape and the city.
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200mm Reinforced Concrete Low-E IG Glazing Aluminum Cap Type 4 Insulation
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Aluminum Flashing 250mm Reinforced Concrete 50mm Z-Girt Aluminum Soffit Precast Concrete Paver 100mm Type 4 Insulation Radient Tube Low-E IG Glazing
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SECTION DETAILS
OTHER WORKS CONVERGE / DIVERGE
ULTRA JOURNAL
STUDIO CHAIR
DANIEL EVAN WHITE EXPOSITION
CONVERGE // DIVERGE
120 HOURS COMPETITION - HONOURABLE MENTION
Team: Kaitlin Dale, John Ferguson Location: Puan City, China Converge/Diverge is a about examining the relationships between children, building and landscape. Using local materials and assemblies, the library re-evaluates the notion of entry and exit, wall and door. Children are met with play on arrival, with the interior spaces lacking conventional entries or exits. Instead children can enter the library by climbing through a series of portals through the stone walls, or pressing themselves between the wooden dividers. Children and adults are offered uniquely different passages, differentiating the way that a child and adult can pass through and occupy the space. The once one-dimensional architectural elements of wall and door become themselves places of occupation and play. In this way the converge/ diverge becomes nearly two separate worlds; a space that is neither but both.
THE STUDIO CHAIR DESIGN BUILD
Studio: M.Arch Studio 3 Location: University of Calgary, Calgary AB The studio chair was born out of a one week one material design build. Tasked to design and build a chair using only a single sheet of 5’x5’ plywood with no fasteners; the studio chair uses precisely fitted joints to hold its shape firmly. The slight curve in the seat and angle of the legs provide a comfortable, strong and light weight chair.
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CHAIR CONCEPT | BLAKE COTLEY
ISOMETRIC
ULTRA JOURNAL REALSCAPE/DREAMSCAPE
Partners: Kaitlin Dale Location: University of Calgary Online: www.ultrajournal.net The practice of architectural drawing is the practice of abstraction, operating in a fictional space that is neither a perfect picture of what exists nor a precise model of what is to be. Drawings act not simply as representations but as operative agent, tools that inform and shape the production of the real. Drawing then operates as a spectrum between speculative and real, probable and improbable, realscape and dreamscape. EVDS’ first student journal Realscape/Dreamscape explores the spectrum of speculative paper architecture, asking the reader to examine the work both as individual and as a body of architectural thought, a continuum of architectural abstraction. There are two editions of the journal, both symmetrical in their reading and curate the work in order, one from realscape to dreamscape and the other from dreamscape to real.
PLAYHOUSE
DANIEL EVAN WHITE EXHIBITION
Class: ARCH 544J Partners: ARCH 544J Class Location: Museum of Vancouver, Vancouver BC Play House was a retrospective exhibition featuring the work of Vancouver architect Daniel Evan White (DEW), whose work went largely unrecognized throughout his career in the Canadian West Coast. The goal of an Exhibition saw us combing through the extensive body of work of DEW, visiting sites, forming a body of exploratory sketches, developing themes, photographing, and filming, documenting and modeling. The body of research and representation was later assembled into the exhibition at the Museum of Vancouver. *Smith residence photo (top right) courtesy of MOV. *Final exhibition models (bottom right, next page) created by MOV staff *Exhibition designed by ARCH-554J students and faculty. All other drawings and photos Blake Costley
*Smith residence photo (top right) courtesy of MOV. *Final exhibition models (above, bottom right) created by MOV staff, *Exhibition designed by Arch554J staff and faculty. All other drawings and photos Blake Costley
Pictured: 1:25 parti model on display in the Museum of Vancouver. Model design done in collaboration with ARC-544J students and faculty
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