2016 Portfolio
04 M.Arch Thesis Project 09/2014 - 05/2015 Hamilton Design Award Winner 2015
STEELCITY LIVING : Hamilton, Stelco and the Post-Industrial City Hamilton, Ontario, like many other North American cities, has its share of industry to credit its historical development. For more than a century, U.S. Steel Canada (formerly known as Stelco) has defined the skyline of Hamilton. At peak production, ten percent of the city’s population was made up of families and dependents of Stelco employees. Its economic, cultural and physical mark on the city of Hamilton is palpable, and the demise of this once great steel giant is not a pill easily swallowed by Hamiltonians. With such a lasting footprint on the city of Hamilton, along with the cultural implications that such a transition has, the prospect of redevelopment along the water’s edge is an essential discussion for the city’s future. Steelcity Living seeks to reoccupy the 4.5 square kilometer site from private industry to public habitation through the adaptation, remediation and preservation of its industrial ruins for a new model of mixed-use programming that provides new opportunities to live, work and play. Drawing on the site’s historical past as the Canadian steel giant, Steelcity Living on the site of U.S. Steel Canada has already sparked this essential discussion in Hamilton. The utopian vision is a controversial idea for Hamiltonians, who have never imagined the site without steel. The new vision for Hamilton’s on the U.S. Steel site is that of an integrated approach, profiting from the conscious layering of preservation, remediation, and ultimately adaptation. It is an active and functional landscape, slowly changing the toxic state of the site to construct a new landscape design that provides benefits to communities through work and play. For Steelcity Living, this synthesis of the physical and symbolic histories of Hamilton’s industry forms a new backdrop for public integration. Through the implication of mix use programming the project focuses on the development of landscape as the source of brownfield remediation and the design of affordable housing rooted in the post-industrial ruins.
16 Editor + Graphic Designer 05/2014 - 09/2014 Assistant Editor : Nicholas Leblanc
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Building 22, Edition 14 Building 22 is an annual student- initiated publication highlighting work from the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University. It showcases a select number of projects from all levels of the program which prove to be critical and captivating explorations into the realm of design. It is meant to inspire new students, challenge the more experienced, and excite the public. Selected as the Assistant Editor of Edition 13 and consequently the Editor and Designer of Edition 14. Official event of Ottawa Architecture week.
18 M.Arch Studio Project 01/2014 - 04/2014 Ottawa Urban Design Award Winner 2015
6 Homes for Canadians “Do architects have the means - technical, cultural, or aesthetic - to intervene in human affairs during moments of crisis and calamity?” Through an initial comprehensive research project on Canadian Extreme Weather and its effects on the private and public economy, it unveiled a disaster acceptible to the general popluation. At its hight in production the Post War Suburb introduced the notion of the ‘full basement’, largest standard lot size to date and a vision of the perfect 2.5 children family. Canadian housing has used the suburban formula for over a century and this prolonged ingnorance is a quiet disaster. Since the Modernist movement in the early 20th century Architects have attempted to pursuade the middle class away from Suburban development. Although the popularity of the suburb has remained, recent design projects have taken a more interventive approach with infill housing, laneway housing, and low rise apartments in place of a singular dwelling. Dissecting a block within Ottawa’s Alta Vista neighbourhood, the housing patterns from CMHC’s 1948 publication 67 Homes for Canadians’ reveals an outdated vision for the Canadian family. The new ‘6 Homes for Canadians’ creates an inner block laneway that showcases the six different households represented in the 2011 Canadian Census. Physically the houses are raised and connected to responsed to the struggle with Canadian weather and represent the community relationships founded within the suburb sixty years before.
22 M.Arch Studio Project 09/2014 - 12/2014 Project Partner : Luisa Ji
The HIVE : Sprott School of Business Sprott School of Business nurtures growth, collaboration, and intelligence. While the school is in rapid expansion, the Dunton Tower is no longer a place to foster an upcoming institution at the nation’s Capital. Working with the site’s proximity to Dow’s Lake and the Rideau Canal, the project stretches a soft fabric of landscaping over the institutional program to form a continuous connection from downtown Ottawa to Carleton University. The HIVE is inspired by one of nature’s most collaborative spaces: beehives. The organic form of hexagonal packing supports growth and expansion, while the rational system sustains its inner strength. The Sprott philosophy is where the HIVE started, and from here, we grow.
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Company Birth
1915 WWI
1930
Growth + Expansion
1939 WWII
1945
Unionized
1946
Local 1005 Strike
1950
Modern Upgrade
1958 Strike
1969
Strike
1974
Growth + Expansion
1980
Name Change Stelco Inc.
1981
Strike
1990
Strike
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1993
Copetition Grows Stronger
2004
Bankrupcy Protection
2007
Sold to U.S. Steel
2013
Stop Production
2014
Land For Sale
STEEL CITY LIVING Hamilton, Stelco and the Post-Industrial City
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LANDSCAPE
AFFOR
REMEDIATION
HOUSIN
Loading Dock Coal + Coke Piles
Coke Oven Battery
Blast Fur
Cold Mill Z Line Galvanizing Line Rolling Mill Main Office Bar Mill 06
Shipping
RDABLE
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ArcelorMittal Dofasco
PHYSICAL MODEL
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CONDOMINIUM UNITSTO SUPPLEMENT COST OF INTENSIVE REMEDIATION FOR RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
STEL $100
UNIT TYPES 1 BEDROOM 1TOTAL BEDROOM AREA : 396 ’
22’ 22’
TOTAL AREA : 396: $40 ’ 840 MATERIAL PRICE MATERIAL PRICE : $40 SALE PRICE : $100 000840 SALE PRICE : $100 000
18’ 18’
1 BEDROOM + DEN AREA : 432 ’+ DEN 1TOTAL BEDROOM TOTAL AREA : 432: $44 ’ 552 MATERIAL PRICE MATERIAL PRICE : $44 SALE PRICE : $110 000552 SALE PRICE : $110 000
24’ 24’
2 BEDROOM 2TOTAL BEDROOM AREA : 468 ’
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TOTAL AREA : 468: $48 ’ 265 MATERIAL PRICE MATERIAL PRICE : $48 SALE PRICE : $118 000265 SALE PRICE : $118 000
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS ON STELCO SITE
26’ 26’
2 BEDROOM + DEN 2TOTAL BEDROOM AREA : 540 ’+ DEN
30’ 30’
NUMBER OF U
TOTAL AREA : 540: $55 ’ 690 MATERIAL PRICE MATERIAL PRICE : $55 SALE PRICE : $137 000690 SALE PRICE : $137 000
1 294
*MATERIAL COST/ ’ : $103.13 *MATERIAL COST/ ’ : $103.13 *SALE COST/ ’ : $252.52 *SALE COST/ ’ : $252.52
2 269
AFFORDABLE UNITS
975
TOTAL PREFAB UNITS
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UND TO S
LCO’S 000 HOUSE
UNITS
ARKET VALUE
DETERMINED NUMBER OF CONDO UNITS SUPPLEMENT COST OF REMEDIATION
WATERFRONT
Public access onto site, waterfront intervention, community centre, walking paths through site.
PYTOREMEDIATION
Intensive rememdiationfor waterfront. Phytorememdiation for remaining site.
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HOUSE CONSTRUCTION Dofasco begins construction of prefab housing unit on east side of the site.
HOUSING
Begin to inhabit existing sheds with housing units and supporting commerical programs.
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POST INDUSTRIAL
Following remediation, industrial par k opens for public use.
HOUSING
Remanding sheds are occupied with commercial and housing units, housing continues to be built.
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TREE FARM
Following 25 years of remediation the farmis opened for public habitation and production.
PROJECT TIMELINE
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STELCO’S $100 000 HOUSE UNIT COST
$40 000 MATERIALS $10 000
OVERDRAFT
$10 000 MANUFACTUR PROFIT
$ 5 000 12
LABOUR
RE
$100 000 HOUSE MORTGAGE AFFORDABIITY
$10 000 $20 000 $100 000
OVERHEAD, ENERGY + TRANSIT DEVELOPER PROFIT TOTAL COST
HAMILTON ANNUAL INCOME
1
5% Downpayment
2
$5000 1st Time Home Buyers Tax Credit
$ 25,000
$ 35,000
2 083
2 916
30% OF INCOME
625
875
DOWNPAYMENT
5 000
5 000
300
300
2.79%
2.79%
MONTHLY INCOME
MONTHLY RENTAL FEES MORTGAGE INTEREST AMORITIZATION (YEARS) MONTHLY PAYMENTS INTEREST COSTS
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE MORTGAGE LOAN
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25
15
25
516
439
645
439
16 989
36 822
21 239
36 822
$ 81,000 100,000
100,000 100,000
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14 Editor & Designer Book Launch: 10.04.2014 140 Pages Assistant Editor : Nicholas Leblanc
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67 HOMES FOR CANADIANS Published in 1948 by Canada Mortgage + Housing Coporation. Canadians purchased over 29 000 copies across the country within the first year. Population 1942 : 11 million people Population 1972 : 23 million people
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MID-CENTURY NEIGHBOURHOOD: ALTA VISTA, OTTAWA ON City of Ottawa January 1950. Current Population : aprox. 24 000 Current Density : 2142.2 houses per km2 Average House Age is 60 years. Average Lot Size 50’ x100’. Land Price : 10cents per square foot.
1329 1333 1321 1325 09 1313 1317 13 05 13 1297 1301 1289 1293
24 1328 1332 16 1320 13 10 1312 13 13 06 13 1300 1294 1298 1286 1290
School + Playground R1O Residential Zone Kilborn Allotment Garden Linear Park Connecting: Kilborn Allotment Park Orlando Park Parkland Grasshopper Hill Park Playfair Park Pleasant Woods Park Robert Andrew Russel Park Billings Park Lynda Lane Park
CASESTUDY OF POSTWAR CANADIAN HOUSING URBAN VS. BUILT FORM Basement
Now as urban suburbs, are these neighbourhoods functioning to their full potential? Who lives in them? Can the neighbourhood handle higher density? Is this still the type of housing and Canadian citizens need or desire? A look back on CMHC’s 67 Homes for Canadians.
Living
Kitchen + Bath Bedrooms
1285
1289
1293
1297
1301
1305
1309
1313
1317
1321
1325
1329
1333
1324
1328
1332
SNOWDON STREET - ALTA VISTA 1286
1290
1294
1298
1302
1306
1310
1312
1316
1320
Basement
Living Kitchen + Bath Bedrooms
R1 O
CURRENT ZONING
RESIDENTIAL FIRST DENSITY ZONE
Restricted building zone to detached dwellings in areas designated as General Urban Area in the official plan.
R6 A
CHANGED ZONING
R6 B
LANEWAY ZONING
RESIDENTIAL SIXTH DENSITY ZONE
Restricted building zone to detached dwellings with in mid-block laneways designated in areas as General Urban Area in the official plan.
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SUBZONE PROVISIONS
Min. Lot Width Min. Lot Area Max. Building Height Min. Front Yard Setback Min. Corner Yard Setback Min. Rear Yard Setback Min. Side Yard Setback
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FIGURE/GROUND SNOWDON STREET
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SUBZONE PROVISIONS
Min. Lot Width Min. Lot Area Max. Building Height Min. Front Yard Setback Min. Corner Yard Setback Min. Rear Yard Setback Min. Side Yard Setback
B
50’ 15m 1475sq.ft. 450m2 26’ 8m 20’ 6m 15’ 4.5m 25’ 7.5m 10’ 3m
50’ 15m 1475sq.ft. 450m2 26’ 8m 12’ 3.5m 12’ 3.5m 25’ 7.5m 10’ 3m
SUBZONE PROVISIONS
Min. Laneway Width Max. Building Foot Print Max. Building Height Max. Distance Over Lot Lines Max. Driveway Area Garden Plots Available
30’ 130 sq.ft. 30’ 25’ N/A Varies
9m 12m2 9m 7.5m N/A Varies
CURRENT STREET GRID
INTRO. OF LANEWAYS
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ELDER
TRAD FAMIL
14% of Canada’s Population
27% of Ca
3 Units on Snowdon
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DITIONAL LY
R1 O ZONING
R6 A+B LANEWAY ZONING
HIGHER DENSITY
EXTERIOR VISUAL CONNECTION
PERSONAL GARDEN/YARD
COMMUNITY CONNECTION LANEWAY HOUSING FOR CANADA’S POST-WAR NEIGHBOURHOODS The new 6 Homes for Canadians. The new laneway is a representation of Canada’s modern family. A cross section showcasing the diverse family sturctures present in the modern day. No longer should the traditional family of the1950s dictate the design of a generic Canadian home.
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COUPLE (NO KIDS)
SINGLE PARENT
ROOMMATES
BACHELOR
anada’s Population
16% of Canada’s Population
10% of Canada’s Population
5% of Canada’s Population
28% of Canada’s Population
on Snowdon
3 Units on Snowdon
3 Units on Snowdon
2 Units on Snowdon
7 Units on Snowdon
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