DEVELOPMENT

Queen St.

MRKT Alexandra Park

Dragon Condos

7 Vanauley St

SQ2 Condo

Affordable Housing “Transit-Orientated Communities” gentrification of Chinatown by calling out the developers in the neighbourhood. To the left and right of by the developers and their sale prices. Note developments.

Ontario Line “Transit-Oriented Communities” where are the affordable housing?

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Ontario Line alignment

Ontario Line stations

TCHC housing

Proposed market-rate housing

Proposed affordable housing

SCALE 1 : 25 000

Identifying the lack of actionable affordable, attainable housing solutions

Of the “supportive housing” are actually in downtown neighbourhoods

Only 16% of the supposed “3000 supportive units” were actually built within the target years

Transit Orientated Communities - community dividends or displacement?

QUEEN-SPADINATOCEXPROPRIATIONDISPLACEMENT....AFFORDABILITY... ROUND2?

Queen and Spadina TOC - a proposal for a just and inclusive community

The cost of housing: analyzing the carry cost of each dwelling unit per building density

low rise - 3 ST cost per unit: $2.2 million cost per SF: $3000/SF mid rise - 7 ST cost per unit: $1.2 million cost per SF: $1719/SF high rise - 15 St super tall - 60 ST cost per unit: $1 million cost per SF: $1245/SF cost per unit: $709,000 cost per SF: $900/SF

Master Thesis

The proposed building: by the numbers

High-level pro forma analyzing the financial feasibility of the proposed 60-storey QueenSpadina TOC development. A mixed-income and housing ownership model was selected to leverage the real estate market to provide financing for creating purpose-built, affordable rental housing for the theorized Downtown Chinatown Community Land Trust, the proposed non-profit partner on the development.

Rethinking affordability and property ownership in Toronto’s Chinatown

Winterstation Design Competition

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2021 - 2022

Public Art Installation

$6000 CAD

Seven months

Project Manager

Asst. Prof. Fiona Lim Tung

Tomasz Weinberger, Clement Sung, Jason Wu, Jacob Henriquez, Christoper Law, Anthony Mattacchione, George Wang, Maggie MacPhie, Zoey Chao

Location

Woodbine Beach, Toronto

In keeping with this year’s theme of resilience, we chose to base our design on the emotions felt throughout the past two years’ worth of quarantine and isolation. Playing with the idea of reflection, we utilize mirrored walls to cast the visitors as the subjects of our bright red pavilion, titled Introspection. While the trellis roof allows the sun to illuminate the interior and its visitors, the red lifeguard tower stands unyielding in the centre of the pavilion, reminding us of the inherent stability within us.

In highlighting the subject’s presence, we hope to promote introspection into one’s own emotional resilience as one faces their own reflection. From afar, Introspection appears to float on the beach’s horizon. Behaving like a visual constant in the wild, Introspection and the lifeguard towers remind us that no matter what the whirlwinds of life may bring, they endure it all and remain resilient to adversity.