Emergetic Urbanism: Towards a Non-Isolated Architecture

ARCH 690: Emergetic Urbanism: Towards a Non-Isolated Architecture PROJECTING THE URBAN: P2a Submission Submitted on 5th February 2018 School of Architecture, University of Waterloo

Dishita Shah Madiha Khan Simon Leroux Vani Gopalkrishna

BUILT FORM

ALLOTMENT

STREET FABRIC

PROTECTED LAND

TOPOGRAPHY

Figure Ground Site Plan - Existing 1:1500

Layers - Existing 1:40 000

Bungalow Type 1:200

Single Detached Type 1:200

(Hubka, Thomas C. Houses without Names : Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of America’s Common Houses.

First ed. Vernacular Architecture Studies Series. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2013.)

Thistletown Row House Types 3 & 4 1:200

Thistletown Row House Types 5 & 6

Bungalows on Stevenson Rd (Photo: S. Leroux)

1:200

Photographs / Sketched Drawings: Ontario Housing Corporation, Micromedia Limited, and Peter Barnard Associates. Stacked Housing - Design Guidelines from a Review of Existing Projects. Micro Media Limited Profile Index Canadian Provincial and Municipal Publications. 1973-0405. 1973, 1973.

Albion Shopping Centre (Photo: Google Maps)

Albion Shopping Centre 1:2000

“Etobicoke Shopping Centre | Albion Centre | RioCan Leasing.” n.d. Accessed February 5, 2018. http://riocan.com/leasing-portfolio/property/albion-centre.

Albion Strip Mall (Photo: Google Maps) Programmatic Distribution - Existing 1:4000

“Tower in the Park� Type Condominiums on Silverstone Dr (Photo: S. Leroux)

Tower in the Park Type - Lafayette Park

by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig & Hilberseimer, and Ludwig Karl 1:200

Mies Van der Rohe, Ludwig & Hilberseimer, Ludwig Karl. 1956. Lafayette Park. http://library.artstor.org/asset/AWSS35953_35953_34624169.

Site Longitudinal Section Through Finch and Kipling - Existing 1:1500

Site Cross Section Through Stevenson, Finch, and Albion - Existing 1:1500

Challenges & Opportunities for Socio-economic and Biophysical Biomes Scale N/A

Photo Sequence (Sequentially) Along Finch, Through Future Neighbourhood (Albion Parking Lot) & Albion Rd (Photo: Google Street View)

Existing Site Axonometric View 1:1500

Physical Components - Existing (5 Still Photos)

6

1.5

85

Green Buffer

1.5 0.9

7

Green Buffer

Sidewalk

18

Green Boulevard

Stevenson Road

6

Green Buffer

Sidewalk

1.5

Finch Ave W

Sidewalk

Sidewalk Towards Albion Mall

Green Buffer

3

1.5

7

40

Section Through Finch Ave W

50

Section Through Albion Road 1:200

12

1.3 1.5

Green Buffer

6

Albion Road

18

Green Buffer

7

Sidewalk

Sidewalk

1:200

Surface Parking

Driveway

1.2

43

7

Albion Mall

BUILT FORM

ALLOTMENT

STREET FABRIC

VEGETATION

TOPOGRAPHY AND HYDROLOGY

Figure Ground Site Plan - Proposed 1:1500

Layers - Proposed 1:6000

Schmertz et al. Apartments, Townhouses, and Condominiums.

Longitudinal Section

Space Block Hanoi Model by C+A Coelacanth and Associates 1:200

Pfeifer, GuĚˆnter, Per Brauneck, Usch Engelmann, and Julian Reisenberger.

Residential Buildings : A Typology. Basel, Switzerland: BirkhaĚˆuser, 2015.

Podium & Tower - Lake Point Tower by Schiporeit-Heinrich Inc. 1:1000

Schmertz, Mildred F., and Elisabeth Kendall. Thompson. Apartments, Townhouses, and Condominiums. 3rd ed. Architectural Record Book.

New York ; Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1981.

Mid-Rise Centrally Accessed Residential - BDZ Housing Development By pool Architekten Scanned by CamScanner 1:200

Schmertz, Mildred F., and Elisabeth Kendall. Thompson. Apartments, Townhouses, and Condominiums. 3rd ed. Architectural Record Book. New York ; Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1981.

Existing Programmatic Distribution 1:4000

Site Diagram

Human Scale Albion Cinemas

Foodcourt

Outdoor Garden

Canadian tyre

Mapping the Grid Tracing the existing mall in the site. A list of activities and events taking place in the mall is noted and mapped. The Albion cinemas appears to be the firstly formed event around which the entire mall has developed over the course of time.

The floor plan of the mall is analysed and the main axes are identified. The axes formed becomes the base for mapping the grid in the entire site. This helps in the intervention of the urban scape to be in context with its existing activities.

The river is revitalized which runs perpendicular to the finch corridor, and brings much of activities and focus along the finch. A series of overpass runs across the river at regular intervals and connects the site with the finch and across to the Stevenson road.

MicroClimate

The foodcourt in the center is reinterpreted as series of restaurants and cafe around an open courtyard. The canadian tyre is relocated from its existing position and a civic square with community building is proposed.

LRT

LRT

Courtyard

Outdoor Garden

Plaza

Courtyard La Rambla - Barcelona (Photo: Google Street View)

RAM

PROPOSED SITE DIAGRAM

Potential for Socio-economic and Biophysical Biomes

Stevenson Road

Finch Ave W

Street 03

Boardwalk

Boardwalk

Street 02

Albion Road

Street 01

Scale N/A

Site Longitudinal Section Through Finch and Kipling - Proposed

1:1500

Boardwalk and LRT Street Typology Bordeaux Ginko by Agence Devillers & Associés Kipling Ave

Street G

Street F Vehicular Access

Street E

Street D

Street B

Street C Vehicular Access

Street Typology

Street A

“AGENCE DEVILLERS & ASSOCIES » BORDEAUX GINKO.” n.d. Accessed February 5, 2018. http://www.agencedevillers.com/archives/734.

Finch Ave W

Scale N/A

Site Cross Section Through Stevenson, Finch, and Albion - Proposed

1:1500

Photo Sequence (Sequentially) Along Finch, Through Future Neighbourhood (Albion Parking Lot) & Albion Rd (Photo: Google Street View)

Existing Site Axonometric View 1:1500

Proposed Overview

Landscaping

18

Pedestrian

Green Buffer 6

Green Buffer

Pedestrian

1.3 1.5

Landscaping

Albion Road

7

1.5

6.5

53

Section Through Albion Road

45

6

15

Green Buffer

6

57

Pedestrian

3

Pedestrian

1 1.5

Civic Square

Green Buffer

7

Pedestrian

Access

Pedestrian

1.5 1

Vehicular

Green Buffer Bicycle Lane

3

Green Buffer

Pedestrian

3.5

Bicycle Lane

Green Buffer

1:200

3

1.5

6

Section Through Kipling Ave

10

7.5

Section Through Finch Ave W 1:200

Boardwalk

10

Landscaping

20

8.5

Landscaping

6

12

15

Landscaping

5.5

1.5

6

Finch Ave W

18

Green Buffer

River

Green Buffer

Boardwalk

Pedestrian

1:200

6

Kipling Ave

18