C L AU D I A W R Z ECI O N E K ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR DESIGN PORTFOLIO
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Post-Covid Work-Live Complex
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C(r)ave Restaurant
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Academy of Performing Arts
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Wood-Works Research Cabin
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St. Thomas the Apostle Church (Partner Design)
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Diagrid Distillery 2.0 (Partner Design)
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Container Home Design
POST-COVID WORK-LIVE COMPLEX Dundas St. and Rusholme Rd, Toronto In the post-pandemic world, shoppers will still desire the social and physical experience of shopping that they cannot get online. The new retail model will need to be enticing, unique and purposeful if someone is to leave their safe home-setting to go out, which birthed the concept of the WORK-LIVE COMPLEX. The physical and visual connection to clothing remains an important aspect of shopping. The texture of the clothing and the way it hangs signals how it’ll function and look on the body. This is where the digital try-on pods will fulfill this need, located throughout the retail space. Customers can enter alone or with one friend, and view how the clothing will look on them without having to physically try it in anymore. At the same time, this design focuses on a LIVE-WORK model, which will allow the owner of the store to live and work within the one building. Their residence on the upper floor provides ample space for co-working within the limited social-business bubble, and residing in a separate home space where their surroundings remain inspirational with maximized natural light, views and fresh air.
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
LIVING SPACE
WORKING SPACE
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UPPER FLOOR PLAN
W-E SECTION
SOUTH ELEVATION
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The courtyard serves as a multi-functional space for the encouragement of natural sunlight and ventilation amidst engaging safe social interaction. This space could be used by the residents as a flexible outdoor space, and sculptural form that brings visual interest. On the retail side, it could be used for social events where a safe approach is needed in interior environments, and where exterior environments are perhaps more likely to hold a group of people at once; this could include a new-product drop, special collaborations of the shop, and so on.
New City Hall Peace Garden
Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto
Osgoode Hall
C(R)AVE RESTAURANT
C(R)AVE RESTAURANT acts as a metaphor of the relationship between home and city. It connects various points on the site of Nathan Phillips Square, including the pond (the history), the stage (the culture), and the City Hall (Toronto itself). Each of these elements play a role in shaping the culinary scene in this intimate space, where the chef orchestrates their artfully designed meals for guests.
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New City Hall
Osgoode Hall
Peace Garden
EAST ELEVATION
The restaurant acts as the home, a cozy and familiar space, in the comfort of its busy surroundings. The heavy walls offer privacy and contrast the selective exposure and views, as well as the flow of natural light that form the intimate experience of this space. This cave-like form acts as a play on our natural instincts, and serves as a metaphor for carving out a unique space in the city. Together, this space forms a protective and ambiguously familiar environment - a space to re-experience our senses and redefine our experience with local and experimental cuisine.
W-E SECTION PERSPECTIVE
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ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS Church St. and Shuter St., Toronto The ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS works to depict the movement and flow of the city in relationship with dance. The building acts as a living organism, exposing the elements of structure and the movement of user bodies through the fluid facade. The building skin is composed of 3 visual “motions” or states of being: translucent, opaque and transparent. The composition of these phases acts as a control over the views in or out, as well as the amount of natural light that falls into each space. Some spaces house student living quarters which require privacy, while others are meant to connect to the outside by exposing dance classes or practice. From the street level, those passing by are able to see the silhouettes of the performers in some elevations, while others provide a clear view into the space thus eliminating any boundaries between the artist and viewer; both are limitless and ambiguous this way.
EXPERIENTIAL SECTION
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GROUND FLOOR
2ND FLOOR
SOUTH ELEVATION
The contrast of either repeating or breaking up of open spaces acts to encourage the users to break out into dance at any point. The building mimics their flexibility by allowing itself to be transformed into a performance space, a social meeting space, a study space, or even just a circulation space.
FLOORS 4-8
W-E SECTION PERSPECTIVE
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WOOD-WORKS RESEARCH CABIN Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto
Situated loosely in an open landscape, the concept of the WOOD-WORKS RESEARCH CABIN relies on an orthagonal organization of spaces that creates a comfortable and natural flow for the residing botanist - it works to create a contrast between the sense of control over our surroundings to the simultaneous unknown. The building is designed with separate work and live areas, as well as a transitional space that defines the boundaries of the two. This ensures a balance in their daily lives, as they use and experience the cabin. The several bay windows signal views out into the landscape under study and emphasize this connection to nature, vegetation and continued open space.
LIVE
WORK
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INTERIOR RENDER OF WORKPLACE
W-E SECTION
ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE CHURCH Mill St. and Cherry St., Toronto Partner Design: Jia (Sally) Huang
The design of the ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE CHURCH required working with a strong and specific program and client brief. This traditional church, named after the Patron Saint of Masons and Architects, features a sequence of progressions as one enters the Church from the west and arrives at the east to meet God. Select moments of light flow and repeated motifs serve as the conceptual drive in this space, as the light and quatrefoil patterns interact to form angelic-like shadows and imprints on both the interiors and the users. The material palette also features a use of bright whites and warm tones to set a clear presence of divinity, which allows the redefined but classic stained glass application to form special moments throughout the body of the church.
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SITE PLAN
GROUND FLOOR
INTERIOR RENDER AT ALTAR
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SOUTH ELEVATION
PROCESSION DIAGRAM
EXTERIOR
ENTRANCE
NAVE
SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF SITE
SIDE ALTAR
BAPTISTRY
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VIEW OF ALTAR
W-E SECTION PERSPECTIVE
EAST ELEVATION
VIEW OF ENTRANCE
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DIAGRID DISTILLERY 2.0 Mill St. and Trinity St., Toronto Partner Design: Jade Bridglal Originally two individual designs, the DIAGRID DISTILLERY 2.0 tasked us designers to form a hybrid of the concepts, forming a revised and greatly experiential extruded cylindrical form mimicking a whisky glass, through which the distilling program is presented as a wholesome start-to-finish program revealed through glimses of the central and dynamic broken-glass body. The idea of protrusion and extrusion are expressed in the engagement between the diagrid form and the existing historic south tower, which is revived through these actions. Their relationship suggests a flow between old and new, and the concept of a whisky glass intersecting that from which it is made.
EXTERIOR RENDER
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GROUND FLOOR
W-E SECTION PERSPECTIVE
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UP
2ND FLOOR
SOUTH ELEVATION
N-S SECTION PERSPECTIVE 29
CONTAINER HOME DESIGN Private Client, Freelance Work
The CONTAINER HOME DESIGN project required extensive research of the restrictions and requirements of such a design, for a comfortable and functional living space. The client requested variations of a 20 ft and 40 ft container layout, which would include furnishings for sleeping, eating and flexible work space. The drawing package included conceptual drawings, floor plans and 3D renderings of the spaces for use on their website. The client also wished for a simple design that would be easy to source, build and transport upon sale of a unit. The requested colour palette asked for neutral tones and selective pops of colour that would bring the space to life in interaction with the natural sunlight. It was outlined in our discussions that this project was geared to reach young couples or small families who could picture themselves using and living in this space.
FLOOR PLAN OF 40 FT MODEL
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