Type: Pavilion Location: Calgary, Alberta|2009
E.P. Tea Pavilion
Type: Cultural Institution Collaboration: M. Mckay Location: Calgary, Alberta|2011
Museum OF Energy
Competition Entry Type: Recreation Facility Location: Santiago, Chile|2013
Vergara C.D.R
DANIEL WILSON (B.c.c, M.Arch) dan.phillip.wilson@gmail.com
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Type: Private Residence Location: Pender Island |2012
Baker Residence
Type: Mixed-use Development Collaboration: J. Burgess + D. Giraldeau Location: Barcelona, Spain|2010
Poble Nou S.H.C.C
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Vergara C.D.R Competition Entry Type: Recreation Facility Location: Santiago, Chile|2013 A South American-based ideas competition asked participants to consider how a new public recreation center, which was both environmentally mindful and communally inclusive, could be sensitively integrated into a preexisting vacant green space located on the periphery of one of Santiago’s rapidly developing inner-city districts. In an effort to formulate a measured response to the competition’s brief, the design process for the Vergara Centro de Recreación began by gathering formal and organizational insight from local, palpable, and very active geological processes. Analyzing local plate tectonic patterns and formations worked conceptually to inform various programmatic strategies, formal gestures and a tectonic language for the project as a whole.
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Aquatics Facility
Lobby|Reception Fitness Facility
Fitness Facility Media Lounge Administration Games Rooms Cafe|Snack Bar Underground Parking
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Bisect primary program typologies with exterior earthen keyway
Offset formal volumes to allow program & public space to form dialouge with both streetscape & park space
Bridge program typologies visually & spatially
While exploring the latter, the proposal’s design also endeavours to realize a sense of social inclusivity, both at the urban and human scale. This meant maintaining a sense of spatial and visual permeability throughout the project’s various internal programmatic constituents as well as an architecturally open spatial relationship with both the streetscape and green space elements of the site. Particular attention was also given to the formulation of various passive design strategies and to pedestrian access from regional public transportation and cycling corridors so as to promote their use. 6
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Reception|Lobby Waiting Area Administration Offices Locker Room|Washroom Flex|Studio Space Media Lounge Games Room Meeting Room Cafe|Snack Bar Outdoor Patio Steam Room Sauna Diving Pool Lap Pool Hot Pool Strength Training Area Cardio Area Stretching Area Outdoor Basketball Court Underground Parking Mechanical Services Pool Services
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-OPPERABLE SHADING LOUVERS -GREY WATER & RAIN WATER RETENTION CISTERN -DEEP OVERHANGS FOR INCREASED INTERIOR SHADING -THERMAL MASS STONE WALLS TO REGULATE AQUATICS BASIN -LOCALLY SOURCED STONE, STEEL & WOOD BUILDING COMPONENTS
Elev. 8534mm T.O Roof Elev. 5669mm T.O Concrete Wall Elev. 1097mm T.O Concrete Slab Elev. - 4260mm B.O Concrete Slab
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Museum of Energy Type: Cultural Institution Collaborators: M. Mckay Location: Calgary, AB|2011 While enormous amounts of energy are consumed everyday to power the various structures we occupy, cars we drive, and devices we use, often little light is shed on the energy expenditures of our own bodies and its necessary inputs. We give little thought to the fact that our lives are utterly dependent on plants for virtually everything that keeps us alive: oxygen, fibers, fuel and food. Consequently, to get in shape for the challenges of the future we need a culture that knows how to sustain the things that sustain us and at the same time nurtures creativity, imagination and adaptability. Given this premise, the design for the museum of energy aims to illustrate natural metabolisms, particularly that of the human body, through the spatial, programmatic and material design of a system for capturing, transforming and transporting energy. With the integration of permaculture principles - the art and science that applies patterns found in nature to the design and construction of human and natural environments – we set out to develop a project which attempts to be didactic in terms of its message, socially activated, and ‘performative’ based on the assistance of its environment and occupants.
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The design seeks to unfold a complex, yet carefully considered programmatic sequence as a small network of interconnected spaces and programs while acknowledging and folding larger vectors and trajectories that are at play both on the site and the broader city scale. Lastly, the design employs a patterned skin that varies in densities through the articulation of aperture sizes, which are directly correlated to the shading requirements of the program type located beneath.
1200 m2 Exhibition Space 550 m 2 Analysis Stations 400 m 2 Restaurant
250 m 2 Bookstore 280 m 2 Lobby 400 m 2 Gallery
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Admin offices Rest Rooms Services Info Commons
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The primary structure of the project is comprised of poured-inplace concrete and a series of arrayed galvanized steel box-beams, which gently rotate to follow the slight curvature of the form. These elements are supported by a raft foundation system to mitigate the low soil bearing conditions found onsite. Lastly, the rear primary support wall uses a post-tensioned dywidag system that is pinned back beneath the hill to provide strength and slope stability.
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Custom Fabricated Metal Cladding Glass Assembly Trypiramid Diagrid System [100mm Tubing] Curtain Wall Partition Steel Piles Galvanized Steel Box Beams [630mm x 200mm] Poured-In-Place Concrete Retaining Wall
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Edworthy Park Tea Pavilion Type: Pavilion Location: Calgary, AB|2011 The conceptual point of departure for the Edworthy Park tea pavilion was an abstraction from the very process of making tea itself. After simply understanding the process through which tea is made, a simple truth emerged – the various leaves, and particles thereof, gave parts of themselves to the water in order to change both its colour and taste. This notion of exchange was then taken and transposed to form the architectural relationship the pavilion would share with its site. While fulfilling the central project brief of providing park goers with both shelter under which to sit and enjoy a cup of tea as well as additional public park restrooms, the design separates the pavilion into three programmatic constituents and uses the unique hedge condition found in the west end of the park as the principal element in the execution of the aforementioned architectural idea.
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The large deciduous hedge was incorporated into the pavilion’s design as a natural, dynamic façade, which shifts its degree of porosity based on natural seasonal cycles. Carving into the hedge are three private and more intimate seating nooks that allow patrons to inhabit the ‘façade’. Additional seating is sunken and offset so as not to obstruct southerly views of the site beyond. Finally, the design also employs material extensions through interior and exterior space in order to blur any hard line definitions thereof and incorporates a storm water retention cistern to provide potable water for the park’s patrons. Concept|Diagrams
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Poble Nou S.H.C.C Type: Mixed-use Development Collaborators: J. Burgess + D. Giraldeau Location: Barcelona, Spain|2010 The Poble Nou Seniors Housing and Community Complex was the re-envisioning and development of one 78m x 78m inner courtyard of an existing residential building located adjacent to the Barcelona waterfront within the exiample grid. The project began by envisioning how the forthcoming demographic shift (40 % of the Spanish population will be older than 65 by 2050), accompanied by the current state of global economic turmoil, might alter the balanced integration of elderly people within Spanish culture; potentially isolating senior citizens from their social support networks and families, who may no longer be able to afford to care for them. The mixed-use development integrates a range of both ground level access units as well as two-story walk up units to accommodate various family structures and physical abilities while maintaining a 9-meter height restriction so as to preserve the pristine views from the existing residential apartments. Given this, the articulation of the project’s fifth façade - the roofscape - became an important aspect of the design. A green roof as well as a rooftop garden space located in the north corner (where the highest degree of solar exposure occurs) gives back the green space taken up by the placement of the project within the courtyard and gives residence a place to grow vegetables and socialize.
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The design rotates the orientation of the living units 45° so that no one unit is perpendicular to any of the pre-existing apartment units thus eliminating direct views into private living spaces. Public amenities and programming such as a café, games room and library that serve both the center itself as well as the greater community are also provided at the ground level in an effort to foster communal cohesion. Additionally, the incorporation of both shared internal courtyards and extensions to circulation, which provide front porch space, also aim to foster a high degree of social integration between the various residents of the project.
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Baker Residence Type: Private Residence Location: Pender Island, BC|2012 Baker residence was the conceptual and schematic development of a 392 m² single-family residence overlooking the Strait of Georgia, located on a wooded site on Pender Island, BC. The aim was to develop a design that both embraced and celebrated the remote aspects of the site as well as the wonderful northeasterly views. The design also aims to foster the family’s outdoor lifestyle while establishing an active spatial and material connection with the project’s site. Formally, the project develops two separate programmatic volumes, each of which opens both spatially and visually to opposing sides of the site thus framing distinct views and spatial experiences. The separate volumes, which contain the increasingly private programmatic elements, are stitched together via the most public – the kitchen, eating area and entry. Two formal projections, which extend beyond the articulated facades, allow the office and study to exist as unique spatial entities within the project, giving the sensation of being amongst the surrounding trees. At the main level, programmatic elements such as the kitchen, living, and den are given the elasticity to extend into the outdoors through foldable and slidable sections in the curtain wall.
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Entry Kitchen Dining Area Guest Room Bedroom Master Suite Bathroom Den Games + TV Room Closet Office Study Laundry Hot tub Below-Grade Mechanical Room Garage Exterior Deck Firewood Storage Kayak Rack Beach Access Path
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The primary structural logic of the Baker residence was conceived of as a hybrid of steel I-beam members, which are expressed throughout the design, and wood framing. Extensions of the two beyond defined spatial boarders were used to provide covered exterior areas and to achieve a material extension of space. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Steel Frame Lateral Bracing Slab-on-Grade [203mm] Strip Footing Foundation [300mm] Roof Framing [50mm x 254mm Members] Reinforced Concrete Slab [ 175mm] Galvanized Steel I-Beams [235mm x 235mm] Concrete Column Footings [457mm]
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