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Ryerson Architectural Science
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TABLE OF CONTENTS A GATHERING PLACE_________________________________________________________________________________________________4-5 CANADIAN PAVILION 2015, WORLD EXPO INTRODUCTION__________________________________________________________________________________________________________6-7 DRAWINGS_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________8 RENDERINGS______________________________________________________________________________________________________________9
SCULPTING SPACE: ISAMU NOGUCHI MUSEUM OF STONE ANALYSIS SITE ANALYSIS________________________________________________________________________________________________________11 THE MUSEUM INTRODUCTION______________________________________________________________________________________________________13 DRAWINGS_______________________________________________________________________________________________________14-15
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERIOR VIEWS___________________________________________________________________________________________________16-18
LIVE-WORK DUPLEX INTRODUCTION______________________________________________________________________________________________________20 INTERIOR VIEWS___________________________________________________________________________________________________21-23 DRAWINGS_______________________________________________________________________________________________________23-25
GROUP WORK
COLLABORATIVE EXERCISE 2015_______________________________________________________________________________________26-28
TRINITY BELLWOODS SITE ANALYSIS________________________________________________________________________________________29
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A GATHERING PLACE The Site Allan Gardens, a park and conservatory in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada’s, Garden District, is one of the older parks in Toronto. After a period of neglect, the gardens are being revived through the efforts of the councilor Kristen Wong-Tam, the friends of Allan Gardens and ERA Architects. The hope is to serve the community better with an enlarged greenhouse, a better playground, and other amenities. Our site is a transition zone, from outdoor space to the entrance doors of the conservatory. The conservatory is open to the public for free every day. “A Gathering Place” A welcoming gathering place at the entrance of the Allan Gardens Conservatory, for Toronto’s Cabbagetown, Garden District and Ryerson communities is designed to provide an inviting entrance to the conservatory which will attract visitors and collect together to this gathering place. Providing seating , activities such as a portable large scale chess set, shuffleboard, as well as picnic tables for perhaps a picnic lunch, or just a break in the park from the hustle and bustle of the city lifestyle, enable visitors interact with the gathering place. The gathering place provides a “break” from the busy city lifestyle and allows for a connection to the conservatory and the park. By the use of falling water in the centre of the upper level of the gathering place serves as a noise buffer of the city streets, enhancing the users experience to enjoy and take a pause from the busy city lifestyle. A Connection to the Senses A connection to the human body’s senses such as sight, sound, and smell are stimulated at the gathering place; water provides a soothing, calming experience as well as serves as a noise buffer, and the vegetation in the place provides sweet sells from the flowers when they are blooming, as well as a visual appeal of the variety of plants which also connect this place with the park as well as the conservatory, while providing complimentary contrast.
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CANADIAN PAVILION, WORLD EXPO Official Catalogue Expo Milan 2015: Feeding the Planet Energy for Life “All the participants are called upon to contribute to the creation of thematic structures based on the relationship with the earth, water and the sun, sources of nourishment and life for the planet”
“[…] it will be an Expo that overturns the whole concept of monumentality: in place of giant structures (like the Eiffel Tower of Paris 1898), Milan will build a new landscape of monumental lightness and natural beauty.” Boeri, Burdett, Bouquets, Herzog and McDonough, Expo Milan 2015 concept plan, 2009”.
Canadian Pavilion The Canadian Pavilion at the Milan World Expo 2015; The Growing Life, provides the visitor to experience the essence of Canada’s agriculture, and gain an understanding of how Canada is a major producer and exporter of many goods. The pavilion displays food that “feeds our world”; from various areas of the country. For example, wild blueberries are commonly found in Quebec, Mustard seed is abundant in Alberta, the East Coast of Canada is a large supplier of crustaceans as well as salmon, wheat is heavily produced in Saskatchewan, as well, Quebec produces 70-80% of the worlds exported Maple Syrup. It is very important to preserve our earth, and provide healthy, safe and sufficient food for everyone; making it important to grow our own food rather than produce processed foods which are not good for our health. Trees and plants release oxygen which allow us to sustain life on earth; without plants we would not be able to survive, thus it is important not only for our health, but our planet to continue to grow natural and healthy nutrients which not only give to us, but give back to our planet. The pavilion allows the viewers to interact with the plants and taste sample, as well as smell and feel the plants and learn about them, how they’re grown, and how they provide energy for life.
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The Site Queens Park North, Toronto Ontario, Canada The Pavilion The pavilion itself, is the exhibition. Relating to food and how the senses are stimulated on the topic of food, the pavilion provides the viewer to taste, touch and listen, Through light and shadow, materials and openings and or through architectural elements, space will enable a pause, as well as the pavilion provides an opportunity to experience Canada’s best grown nutrients that feed not just the nation, but the world. The Canadian Pavilion at the World Expo 2015 also provides the opportunity to learn about Canada and it’s food, innovations, and issues, which creates dialogue between countries while addressing the problems in regards to food, nutrition, as well as the resources it provides for our planet. Through displays, food which Canada feeds the world will be shown to educate and experience how Canada literally feeds the world. Different displays are wild blueberries, as Canada is the largest producer/exporter, maple syrup (70-80%) of world’s supply comes from Quebec, lobster, crab an fish come from the east Coast, Primarily Nova Scotia as it has some of the worlds most fertile lobster fishing grounds, as well as mustard seeds and products (75-80% of all mustard exports worldwide, and largest exporter). The food can be displayed and sampled, as well as interactive modules can be used to educate visitors about innovations, issues and how Canada feeds the world.
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NOGUCHI MUSEUM PHASE 1 SCULPTING SPACE: ANALYSIS
Vegetation and Topography Vegetation is not heavily present in this urban and man-made area. Some trees are placed near the site to enhance the vibrancy of the city-scape. The topography is fairly flat, as it is at its highest point at the lake-shore, and slopes down towards the end of the site and raises again north of Queens Quay East.
Sun Shadows The path of the sun where the site gets most of its daylight is East, following South all the way to the West side of the site. The location of the sun and its highest points, and the shadows it casts on the surrounding buildings is particularly important for the positioning of a building when designing on this site.
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SITE ANALYSIS Due to the sun path, the information gathered from sun shadows allowed for the decision of the Museum to be situated with main windows facing to the south and west, and the entrance to the building to the West. The main route of circulation around the building is Queens Quay East; a very prominent street of Toronto's Harbourfront. There are three parking garages located to the east and west of the Museum site. Circulation through the street to the west of the site allows access from Queens Quay to access the parking garages and the surrounding buildings.
Circulation The main circulation point is Queens Quay East; a very prominent street of Toronto’s harbourfront. There are three parking garages located to the east and west of the Museum site. Circulation through the street to the west of the site allows access from Queens Quay to access the parking garages and the surrounding buildings. Figure Ground - New Developments vs Existing Buildings On the Pier 27 site, there are two existing condominium buildings, which to the West, there are two new developments which is estimated to be completed in 2020. Totaling a height of thirty-five storeys. Taking these developments into account is important in designing the Museum.
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SITE PLAN INTENT PARTI Design Intent
Toronto's lake-shore has been an ongoing development process which has tied the city together, and allowed the area to become more inviting. This development has created more opportunities for the city to grow, by actually shifting Toronto's waterfront - Landfilling extended Toronto's lake-shore south. The city needed the lake-shore to become more inviting and needed to incorporate green spaces to create a break from the concrete jungle. Located at Pier 27, a contemporary museum for stone works is created out of stone; the natural materials which come from our planet. This material in its raw un-tampered state, shifts its shape to form a museum that extends southward like Toronto's lake-shore.
Isamu Noguchi
Noguchi is a very talented sculptor who believed that the sculptors task is to "shape space", giving order and meaning; saying that art should "disappear" or be one with its surroundings. Noguchi is an Japanese-Irish-American man who had a way of looking at the world in the sense of "openness". Noguchi worked with different materials; whatever he could get his hands on, although stone was one of the materials he used to create his sculptures. "Everything is sculpture, any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture" - Noguchi.
The Isamu Noguchi Museum of Stone is a museum dedicated to the Japanese-American sculptural artist; Isamu Noguchi. This museum is comprised of three main blocks which are stacked on top of one another, decreasing in length, and creating terraces off of the second and third blocks from the bottom. Toronto's waterfront revitalization has allowed an extension of the shoreline to extend to the south, which the museum follows this notion and connects to Toronto's history. The terraces are outdoor sculptural gardens of Noguchis large stone works, and with the glazed south facades of the building, the interior exhibition spaces have a direct and visual connection to the outdoor sculptural gardens. The “blinders�, the two walls on the east and west facades provide a more intimate feeling by providing a more enclosed space to the sculptural gardens which allows for focus on the building, and its contents. There is a sense of the artists background as well as his physical work; the materiality of the museum is stone, but the detailing and style is a Japanese style, as a connection to the artist himself.
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On the main floor of the museum located on the west side, there is the temporary exhibition space which has a ceiling height of eight meters, totaling a height which equals two storeys of this building. The high ceilings in this space create the ability for tall sculptures/works to be on display as this space is meant for temporary displays. The white reflective ceramic walls provide a “blank canvas” for the gallery and will not interfere with the present/ future works of art in this space. The floor, black slate tile provides contrast throughout the ground level while giving off a stone appearance, contributing to the whole of the museum ; stone material being the focus. The materials themselves are sculptural elements that are encountered as one experiences this sculpted space. The ‘solid’ and the ‘void’ are defined by light and shadow which comes into the exhibition space through the west windows on the ground floor of the museum. The light that enters this space defines the void more prominently from the second floor.
Degree of Enclosure
There are different degrees of enclosure throughout the museum. Particularly, the amount of closure/enclosure can be seen with the temporary exhibition gallery and the second floor education spaces (multi-use to the right, and library to the left as well as the permanent exhibition space straight ahead). The second floor is not as open as the ground floor, and gives off more of a sense of closure while also contrasting with the open area from the temporary exhibition space, education spaces, and gallery. Light comes through the multipurpose space facing the south side, and comes in to the temporary exhibition as well as the glazing on the inside of the library. Blinds can be installed on the south glazing of the multi-use space to create shade and privacy depending on the intent of use of the space at a given time. Materiality throughout the closure/enclosures space comprises of materials such as marble, natural stone paneling, ceramic, slate and granite. The various types of stone materials are used to provide contrast and show the different types of stone that can be used when sculpting space - some of the materials that Noguchi himself worked with.
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LIVE-WORK DUPLEX LUMINESCENCE, a mixed use building which consists of a ground floor commercial use space, and 2 stacked residential units which focus on the penetration of light. Full storey windows in the living spaces such as the bedrooms and living rooms, are situated to the east and west of the site. The open-concept kitchen and living rooms are exposed to natural daylight, by curtain walls which covers the whole facade of the living room/kitchen. The curtain wall from the living room/kitchen brings a warm and luminous feel to the space, while providing outdoor access to a balcony. This commercial-residential duplex has one central circulation access point which connects all floors and units of the duplex to the rooftop - a relaxing haven from the hustle and bustle of the city. Enjoy relaxing on the outdoor living lounge, or sit under a pergola after preparing a meal on the outdoor kitchen. LUMINESCENCE features privacy to the individual units while providing non-private access to the rooftop. Allowing the rooftop to become one shared open-space allows for more social interaction and the availability for social events to occur.
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Although this duplex is small, the threshold of the building is made prominent by the full-building-height glazing which allows light to enter the stairwell to the entry points of the residential units, while creating an inviting, luminous and harmonious entry point of access.
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