2020 by Christopher Hardy

Christopher Tan Hardy

Selected Works 2020

My name is Christopher Tan Hardy, and I am a recent graduate of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, and currently an M.Arch student at the same institution. The following volume of work is a collection of my academic, professional, and personal work that has encompassed much of my life over the past three years. A wide range of project types presented here highlights the multitude of design experience I have from working at different scales, from interactive installations to an entire master plan development. The breadth of work exemplifies my pursuit to further my knowledge about architecture, and how it can address major societal issues such as social inequality, affordable housing, and sustainable practices in architecture. I hope that the presented work demonstrates my proficiency in architectural representation and the ability to succeed in advanced studies in the M.Arch program at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Enjoy!

Christopher Tan Hardy

M.Arch (Candidate), B.AS Honors

Academic 01

Li mi nal To po graphy

Land Back: Sov ereignt y and Territ ory

Je l l yf i sh Field

Communit y House

R e si l i ent , Regenerat iv e D esign

Pro fe s sional 06

S tud i o V Archit ect ure + P lanning

Norm L i Rendering

Pers onal 08

R ome Pro gram Sket ches

F_ R M l abâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aura

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Liminal Topography 2019 4A Rome Studio

Year:

One month

Duration: Project Role:

Design partner

Instructor: Collaborator:

Lorenzo Pignatti Violeta Michailov Celio Hill, Rome

Location:

Liminal Topography is an exploration of how to mediate between an ancient archeological site and the natural landscape. Situated in the Central Archeological Park of Rome on the flanks of the Celio Hill, our design creates a new monument by establishing view corridors to cultural icons in the Archeological Park such as the Colosseum. The site has been designed to contain parklands with deep cuts into the topography to form pathways that carefully reveals the vistas of the surrounding ancient monuments through openings in the terrain in the form of pavilions. Along this jutting pathway, these pavilions house temporary exhibition spaces that lead visitors to viewing platforms that act as gathering spaces for both tourists and local residents. All pathways lead to the new Archeological Museum at the heart of the complex. As a center of culture and learning, this museum houses the massive Torlonia Collection of 109 classical statuary and various labs for research and restoration of ancient artifacts. A large theatre is located on the ground floor to accommodate symposiums and other cultural events. SELECTED WORK

PROJECT REVIEW 2020

Keywords: cultural, landscape, revitalization

urbanism,

memory,

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Pavilion I Pavilion II Archaeological Museum Public Piazza Pavilion III Aqua Claudia Celio Hill Park Colosseum Temple of Claudius Basilica of Santi Giovanni and Paolo Church of San Gregorio

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Overall site plan of new Archeological Museum

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City model New tram stop Main public piazza Lobby Cafe Theatre lobby/bar Theatre Back of house Temporary exhibition space Viewing platforms

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Sculpture gallery Anastylosis laboratory Sculpture anastylosis laboratory Viewing balcony Bookshop Reading rooms

Ground plan of Archeological Museum

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Curatorial offices Model of the Ancient City of Rome Public piazza New tram stop Sunken pathway to pavilions

VIew into the public piazza

Via di San Gregorio

Sunken Pathway

Section AA through site

Pavilion II viewing platform

Sculpture gallery showcasing works from the Torlonia Collection

Archeological Museum

Pavilion I viewing platform

Longitudinal section through Pavilion II

Longitudinal section through Pavilion I

View into the sunken pathway

Section through Pavilion II and the sunken pathway

Pavilion II temporary exhibition gallery

Section through Pavilion IIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s temporary exhibition gallery

A c ade m i c

02 Year: Duration: Project Role: Instructor: Subject:

Land Back: Soverignty and Territory 2020 Thesis Studio Design I Four months Individual Master’s thesis work Adrian Blackwell 1492 Landback protestors

In my current graduate work at Waterloo Architecture, I analyzed the phenomenon of global neoliberal urbanization and its effect on marginalized groups. In Canada, urban development is fueled by resource exploitation projects on or near Indigenous communities. These projects perpetuate settlercolonialism’s historical violence by establishing infrastructure that enables the outward flow of resources from the extraction site to urban regions. As Cole Harris describes, this colonial infrastructure is the “capillaries of colonial appropriation” (Harris 1997, 184). It privileges settler access and control of the landscapes to consume without the consent of the First Nations, whose well-being is greatly affected by the health of the land. The project presented here analyzes how activist architecture is used to halt land exploitation for financial profit. These drawings of barricades and borders explore the active role architecture plays in spatializing Six Nations’ land reclamation protest on the contested urban development sites in Caledonia, Ontario. By constructing barricades on colonial infrastructure, these land-back protestors can inhibit the destruction and theft of their unceded territory from the ever-growing urban sprawl in the GTHA.

Keywords: cultural, colonial landscapes, sovereignty, land reclamation, native space, protest architecture

Axonometric of the spatalizat

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Development sites and the Six Nationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; land claims

Spatialization of Six Nationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; resistance

1. Douglas Creek Estate occupied house (2006)

Elevation of the protest sites

2. McKenzie Meadows protest camp (2020)

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gyle street electrical pylon barricade (2006)

4. Argyle street tire barricade (2020)

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Jellyfish Field

Abiogenetic Limen - Collective Installation

Year:

2018 3B Design Studio

Duration:

Four months

Instructor:

Philip Beesley

Project Role:

Jellyfish Field creator

Collaborator:

Nick Puersten, Lorenzo Nicolini (constellation group)

Location:

UWSA, Cambridge, Ontario

Abiogenesis is the creation of living organisms from inorganic matter. The purpose of this collective installation with 14 other students in collaboration with the Living Architectural Group Systems (LAGS) is to expand on this notion and how it can be used to create a responsive type of architecture. Jellyfish Field is my contribution to the collective installation as a member of the constellation group. Drawing inspiration from jellyfish physiology, I envisioned a field of responsive creatures that emit coordinated flashes of light and sound when activated by occupants in the space. When a person walks by and investigates these translucent glowing organisms, the IR sensor suspended from the jellyfish will activate, sending a signal to the control module, causing the jellyfish to vibrate and display a sequence of pulsating lights. In tandem, another signal is sent to nearby jellyfishes to engage them in this fantastical display of sound and light. Within a matter of seconds, the entire field becomes active, filled with synthetic life as they display a dance that responds to those that meader through the space.

Keywords: interaction, symbiosis, responsive, ephemerality, sensory

Abiogenetic Limen installation

Photograph taken by Fred Hunsberger Models: Chris Hardy, Violeta Michailov, Rajashree Iyer

Study sketches

CONSTELLATION GROUP

CANOPY GROUP

Installation reflected ceiling plan

Adult jellyfish being activated by touch

Photograph taken by Fred Hunsberger Model: Shima Mohammed

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Jellyfish field sectional perspective 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Adult jellyfish Infant jellyfish Installation hanging frames Light-emitting bulb Hanging cable Jellyfish skeleton DC vibration motor Frons

Jellyfish skeleton cut sheets

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04 Year: Duration:

Community House 2018 3A Design Studio One month

Project Role:

Project designer

Instructor: Location:

Adrian Blackwell Jane and Finch, Toronto

Community house seeks to revitalize the neighbourhood of Jane and Finch with sustainability, culture, and neighbourhood well-being as guiding principles of the design. As most residents in the area are part of family units with three or more people, the design responds to this by making all residential unit types three and four-bedroom configurations. From a demographic study of the area, most families earn less < $30,000 a year. To that end, the entire roofscape of the building is terraced to incorporate large free-spanning greenhouses. The incorporation of urban farming is aimed to provide an affordable source of fresh food to the residents while also allowing the building to provide a surplus of produce that can be sold for profit in the food market on the ground floor. Amenity rooms with communal kitchens are placed on every floor to preserve and enhance the deep social roots embedded within the community. A large courtyard park is placed in the center of the structure to maximize the residential unitsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; daylighting while also creating a social attractor for the entire urban development.

Keywords: community building, landscape, urban farming, urban development

Building axonometric

Site axonometric of redeveloped neighbourhood

Surrounding site massing designed in collaboration with Shiuli Mukherjee and Christina Vogiatzis

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Program types Residential - courtyard unit Residential - interior unit Office Retail Community services Amenity rooms Restaurant Greenhouse

Massing evolution

1. Establish 6m stepback from street edge to provide space for street frontage.

2. Create perimeter block within buildable area to frame the street.

3. Interior courtyard to let in more daylight into the building and provide a green space for the residents and neighbourhood.

4. Depress south side and lift up north to maximize solar penetration into courtyard.

5. Alight courtyard entrances along the four footpaths that connect to the four cores of the master plan.

6. Western side of building provides passive solar shading of courtyard by blocking warm, low sun angles of the setting sun.

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Ground floor plan

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Lobby w/ bike storage Community center Community pool Food Market Restaurant Retail Daycare Courtyard park Parking entrance Rainwater cistern Jane Street LRT stop

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3rd floor residential plan - typical layout

Residential Unit - courtyard Residential Unit - interior Ammenity room Communal courtyard Elevator lobby Courtyard park

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Ground floor

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Bedroom Bathroom Closet Kitchen Family room Dining room Study Balcony

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Bedroom Bathroom Closet Kitchen Family room Dining room Study Communal Courtyard

2nd floor

Unit type 01: interior block

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Ground floor Unit type 02: courtyard block

2nd floor

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Courtyard unit axonometric

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Bedroom Bathroom Closet Kitchen Family room Dining room Study Fire stair Front door Communal courtyard door

Jane St.

Parking Garage

Sunken Courtyard

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Community Pool

Tomasz Lane

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Resilient

Regenerative Design

Year: Duration: Project Role: Instructor: Location:

2020 4B Design Studio One month Individual work Andrew Levitt Leslie Spit, Toronto

A resilient and responsive design reduces its impact on climate change while using global temperature increases to open new avenues in material and structural solutions. This project is designed for the climate of 2050, where the average temperature in Toronto is predicted to rise by 2.30C. In this environment, bamboo is now a viable plant species that can be grown within the surrounding environment. Following on the notions of resiliency and sustainability, this project constrains its design to incorporate local, rapidly renewable materials as the main building component. A super-structure made solely out of bamboo grown on the site envelopes the various public programs introduced at the southern peninsula of Leslie Spit. Given the local environmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ecological sensitivity, the entire structure projects off the shoreline into the lake. A boardwalk of wood post suspends the project 2m above the highest recorded flood water rise. As an attractor of public activity, at the end of the wooden boardwalk is the lakeside amphitheatre that allows visitors to jump off into the cool water of Lake Ontario.

Keywords: cultural, ecological, resilience, sustainability, rapidly renewable materials

Boardwalk to the cafe

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Cafe Bamboo garden Bamboo cultivation plot Changerooms Wet sauna Lakeside amphitheatre Outdoor showers Artist studio Floating movie screen Bike storage Wastewater storage

Site plan

Rendered axonometric

Bamboo growth diagram

Passive cooling changeroom section - summer

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Passive heating changeroom section - winter

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•glass rainscreen embedded with PDLC film •100mm dia. split cane bamboo facade •25mm drainage cavity •UV resistant wind barrier membrane •150mm semi-rigid stone wall insulation (allows for vapour diff.) •continuous vapour permeable, air and water barrier •20mm ext. grade DensGlas sheating •200mm rockwool insulation, filled b/t bamboo stud cavity •20mm OSB sheating •100mm XPS insulation •20mm cedar planking

Detailed changeroom wall section

•20mm ext. grade DensGlas sheathing, taped at joints •250mm rockwool insulation, filled b/t nom. 2”x10” SPF. wood joist •20mm OSB sheating •100mm XPS insulation •alumn. radiant floor heating plate with 0.5” dia. PEX tube •water, vapour barrier, lapped at joints •cedar deck planking @ 20 slope SCALE 1 : 25

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Plan of Cafe

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Coffee bar Dining area Accessible washroom Bamboo pod dining areas Sheltered bike storage Storage and downstairs kitchen access

View of the Toronto skyline from the Cafe

Lakeside amphitheatre

P ro fe s s i o na l

06 Year: Duration: Project Role:

Location: Workterm evaluation:

Studio V Architecture + Planning 2019 Eight month internship

Executive clubhouse exterior

Modelling and design in collaboration team. Renderings produced with Sph

Renderings, concept design, 3d modelling, site research, physical modelling New York City, USA Outstanding Performance

During my internship at Studio V Architecture, I worked on this series of renders and drawings of our exclusive membership clubhouse project located in Hong Kong. This design was a significant project with a unique spatial challenge, as we had to fit a multitude of programs requested by the client into a 200m long, 5m wide building. The final design would leverage the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s length by establishing a central spine that, from it, each of the diverse programs requested by the client would plug in.

Ground floor plan Program distribution

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TOTAL AREA: 2. Visual and sound stud 3. Guitar and instrument s 1947 m2

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support spaces

1. fun 3. manabi house

1. Japanese tea house (25m ) 1. 2. Chinese tea house (25m2) 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 2

Executive Clubhouse section

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2nd floor plan

WEST BLOCK

space (100 m2) dio (50 m2) studio (50 m2)

EAST BLOCK

1. Closet concierge (40 m2) 2. Style & gift concierge (40 m2)

house

1. Lavatory 2. Administrative office 3. Building core and circulation

support spaces

2. tip house

4. inspiration house

Gallery (100 m ) Lounge (100 m2) Sound booth (25 m2) Event space (25 m2) Bar (25 m2) Library (25 m2) 2

5. holistic house 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Spa (100 m ) DO studio (50 m2) BE studio (50 m2) Juice bar (30 m2) Refreshment bar (30 m2) Supplement and Herb (30 m2) 2

6. foodie house

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Shared table (200 m2) Personal cellar (200 m2) Teppanyaki (10 m2) Private cooking class (50 m2)

P ro fe s s i o na l

07 Year: Duration: Project Role:

Location: Workterm Evaluation:

Norm Li Rendering 2018 Four month intership Rendering, 3d modelling, material creation, postproduction Toronto, Canada Excellent Performance

This render is part of a series made during my co-op term at Norm Li in Toronto. I’m entirely grateful for all the encouragement and guidance I have received at Norm Li, which has elevated my visualization skills to a new level. The modelling and lighting set up were done in 3DS Max, in conjunction with plugins such as itoo Railclone and Forset pack. V-ray was used as the main render engine, and all post-production work was completed in photoshop. I learned the power that architectural visualization has on conveying a design’s unique narrative throughout my internship. One aspect of the work I had participated in was the material creation of interior finishes specified by the client. By studying the different types of materials and how the texture and colour were affected by light, I appreciated how daylighting could alter the end-users’ response to the space they inhabit.

Rooftop garden render

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08 Year: Duration: Project Role: Location(s):

Rome Program Sketches 2019 Three months Individual work Rome, Fierenze, Gubbio, Siena, Venezia, Baia, Cuma, Pompei, Pienza, Urbino, Verona, Vincenza, Parma, Capri, Tivolli, Berlin

Gubbio, Italy

The following sketches were drawn during my time in the Rome program in the fourth year of my undergraduate degree. For me, drawing is a tool not just for documentation but also for studying and analyzing a space. Each of these drawings captures a specific moment where my surrounding environment greatly intrigued me. For example, the light play off the thick stone carved walls in the Caves of Sybil in Cuma, Italy (middle right), highlighted how the repetition of facade openings could visually elongate the appeared length of the passageway. The beautifully delicate square windows by Italian architect Carlo Scarpa (top middle) taught me how introducing light into the top corner of the room could impress to visitors the appearance of an expansion of volume, and dissolve the division between interior and exterior spaces.

Venezia, Italy

Siena, Italy

Vincenza, Italy

Berlin, Germany

Venezia, Italy

Cuma, Italy

Tivoli, Italy

Pienza, Italy

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09 Year: Duration: Project Role: Collaborators:

Location:

F_RMlab’s Aura Fall 2020 Two months Co-Director, project manager, design, fabrication Adrian Chiu, Peter Kwak, Carlo Rosel, Cynthia Eng, Alexandra Yeung, Juliana Jiang, Samantha Kerry, Alena Sloan, Rie Koay, Joel Wan, Violeta Michalova, Shanze Shabab UWSA, Cambridge, Ontario

Named “Aura,” this interactive projection installation aims to show the virtual nature of online schooling in a pandemic by allowing students of UWSA who may be at all corners of the globe to express their digital presence. By developing a website that allows students to remotely interact with the light and text displays projected onto the school’s facade, the building appears full of life. A kaleidoscope of lights and colours mimics the humdrum of students furiously working into the dead of night of their various academic design work. This display signifies to the people of Cambridge that the students of the school are still connected to the city through our online interactions with peers and professors. Although some students are continuing their academic work in Cambridge, we hope that this installation reminds those individuals and the community that although we cannot be together, we can remain connected through the digital realm.

Keywords: COVID-19, , interaction, community, response, presence, online learning

Text room Colour room Emergent bubbles room Aura axonometric

9 Projection assembly

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Digital projector Computer control Projection screen Studio desk Back projected image (reversed)

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Lightweight projection frames being installed by the Cambridge install crew

Collaborators in the photos: Samantha Kerry, Thanh Tran, Adri Saha, Matthew Lam, Samuel Correa, Ben Ma, Adrian Chiu, Alexandra Yeung

Thank you.