E D U C AT I O N UNIVERSIT Y OF TORONTO // TORONTO, ON Master of Architecture
2018-2021
C A R L E TO N U N I V E R S I T Y / / OT TAWA , O N Bachelor of Architectural Studies
2012-2016
R E L AVA N T E X P E R I E N C E S ARCHITECTURAL MODEL DESIGNER PETER MCCANN ARCHITECTURAL MODEL INC
2016-CURRENT
- Consulted with architects, customers and model makers regarding project scope and milestone dates - Created, printed and modified drawings in AutoCAD and Rhino 6.0 - Interpreted technical documents and blueprints to determine required operational sequences, and parts for each model and execute successful planning with laser cutting
I L L U S T R ATO R FREELANCE
2019-CURRENT
- Developed product and solution positioning, messaging by prospective buyer roles and methods to overcome competitive objections. - Submitted professional proposals and project scopes to potential employers. - Performed work according to project schedules and high-quality standards.
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN SMV ARCHITECT
2011
- Utilized computer program AutoCAD, Sketch-Up and Revit and prepared design plans - Performed research on structures and materials - Assisted with designing single and multi-family, health, residential, and community projects
E-Mail: eisa.hayashi@gmail.com Portfolio: eisahayashi.portfoliobox.me
SKILLS - Language (English: fluent / Japanese: fluent / Cantonese: speak) - Ontario Building Code - Web design and coding - 2D and 3D renderings - Architectural design, planning and presentation - Illustration and drawing TOOLS - Laser Cut - 3D Print - CNC - Cricut - Drafting PROGRAMS - Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat) - Autodesk (AutoCAD, Revit) - Rhinocerous 6.0, 5.0 (grasshopper, V-Ray) - Sketch-Up - Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - Clip Studio
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Cover illustration - Animia You’re So Vanier: Inaugural Architect Magazine Studio Prize - Architect Magazine (AIA) Harry S. Southam Scholarship - Carleton University Chalmers Jack MacKenzie Scholarship - Carleton University NepNewYear 2nd place - Idea Factory International Inc. Pixiv Illustration Contest Special Prize - Human Academy X Pixiv Orangina Personification Contest Winner - Suntory Beverage & Food Ld.
2019/2020 2016 2016 2016 2016 2015 2014
LAKESCAPE amphibious
F LO AT I N G BAGEL
theatre M.ARCH II ARC2014
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CONTENT
M.ARCH II ARC1021
18 - 25
P L AY I N G WITH BUILDING
embedded
SIGMA
M.ARCH I ARC1012
RESEARCH PROJECT
26 - 33
34 - 51
housings
LAKESCAPE
-amphibious
theatre
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January - April 2020 Academic Project: Jessica Ho, Eisa Hayashi M.ARCH II Comprehensive Studio Instructor Dufaux Rhino, Auto CAD, Illustrator, Photoshop Location: Portland, Toronto, ON
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ently positioned parallel to the horizon of Lake Ontario, LAKESCAPE, our proposed amphibious theatre complex, situated in the Port Lands seeks to closely integrate itself with the existing waterscape. Fascinated by the swan’s ability to flawlessly blend into the lake, our project embraces similar characteristics using various reflective materials, integrate diverse structural systems, and play with the human eye as one moves down the causeway in relation to the water level. Viewing from the city, we organized the programme requirement into smaller pavilions that gradually steps down in building height from land to water. The project is connected by a linear causeway that provides the main services needed on site. Despite its similar box-like form, they each inherit its own set of characteristics while having many commonalities to one another. Each building strives to blur the boundaries between interior and exterior while interestingly exploring these thresholds and transitions between land and water.
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AMPHIBIOUS THEATRE //
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Axo of the whole site
Section showing the roof datum decreases as they move away from Cherry St. AMPHIBIOUS THEATRE //
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Site strategies
1. EXISTING CONDITION The Port Lands industrial site includes a small and a large concrete piers sandwiched between Lake Ontario and Cherry Street.
2. MARSH LAND + CAUSEWAY We removed the larger concrete pier and converted it into a muddy wetland as a means of remediating the soil in the area. In addition, we included a linear causeway to serve as the main spine in which to connect the various programs on site.
3. SUBTRACTION Through the process of subtraction, we conceptually carved out of Lake Ontario as a way of camouflaging with the existing water by adding water on the rooftop of the all the buildings and pushed back water to make way for an outdoor theatre.
4. CONCRETE MOUNDS + LIGHTWELLS We decided to recycle the concrete remains to create new habitable environments for all kinds of living to take over. The lightwells at the end of the causeway would serve as a signage of our theatre that can be viewed easily from the city during the day and night.
Through the process of subtraction, we removed the larger concrete pier within the concrete boundary and converted it into a marshland as a means of remediating the contaminated soil in the most industrial part of the city. We then use the concrete remains to create mounds around the site to construct new habitable environments as well as a strategy to alleviate the risk of flooding the area. Similarly manipulating the water level, we conceptually extract and lift the water upwards so that it would be retained on the rooftops of all the buildings as another means of camouflaging with the open waterscape from above. At the same time, we carve into the water to make way for an outdoor theatre at the end of the causeway, where visitors are guided to an underpass to experience the mesmerizing view of the horizon or more specifically the water level at eye level. In addition, the three lightwells located at the end of the causeway will serve as our signage for our theatre.
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Cross Section emphasis on different relationship with water and caseway (top: outdoor theatre, middle: restaurant, bottom: main theatre)
AMPHIBIOUS THEATRE //
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Inspiration from initial sketch model of fragmentation
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Playing on the notion of camouflaging, both type of faรงades has reflective qualities that mimics its surroundings by blurring the lines temporarily.
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Ground floor plan and section of main theatre
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3PLY ACRYLIC POOL WINDOWS
DRAINAGE
+10.0 ROOF
BLUE ROOF (WATER RETAINED) EPDM POND LINER WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE 13MM COVERBOARD 250MM POLYISOCYANURATED THERMAL INSULATION 64+38 CONCRETE ON METAL DECK 250MM STEEL PURLINS 836MM STEEL BEAMS 500MM VOID 65MM SUSPENDED ALUMINUM FIN CEILING
REFLECTED MIRROR FINISH ON METAL PANEL EPDM POND LINER 13MM COVERBOARD 50MM AIRSPACE 250MM POLYISOCYANURATED THERMAL INSULATION WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE 9.5MM PLYWOOD SHEATHING 250MM POLYISOCYANURATED THERMAL INSULATION
VENT OPENINGS
2X6MM LAM. SAFETY GLASS WITH VS-1 VERTICAL MULLIONS 1700MM CAVITY 2X6MM LAM. SAFETY GLASS WITH VS-1 VERTICAL MULLIONS
+1.50 LEVEL 1 HYDROLIC LIFT
3PLY ACRYLIC WINDOWS +/- 0.0 WATER LEVEL
WETLAND/ MARSHLAND
- 2.0 BELOW LEVEL 1
- 5.4 BELOW LEVEL 2
- 8 LAKE BED LEVEL
DRAINAGE PIPE
1000MM RETAINING WALL 20MM DIMPLED SHEETING WATERPROOFING MEMBERAIN 150MM XPS THERMAL INSULATION 350MM REINFORCED CONC. FOUNDATION WALL 50MM SPACER 9.5MM GYPSUM BOARD INTERIOR FINISH
300MM GRAVEL 600MM REINFORCED CONCRETE FOUNDATION WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE 300MM CONCRETE SLAB 150MM EPS THERMAL INSULATION 900MM VOID 300MM REINF. CONCRETE FLOOR 89MM HEATING SCREED 13MM EPOXY-RESIN TERRAZZO
FULL WALL SECTION // 1:20 The double facade allows this building to blur the boundary with the surrounding environment while achieving a highly insulated interior environment. As well as with the effect of using the dichroic film of both layers, it will allow the space to create various lighting effects. Also with building a 1m thick retaining wall will keep the building low profile comparing to surrounding buildings. There are special features of retaining at the rooftop for rainwater harvesting. This later will protect the roof membrane from damage due to the direct sunlight while keeping the interior cool. Depending on the season, the double facade can be accessible by the public, but its main function is to hold still air between its layers to act as an insulator during the colder seasons. Radiant floor piping are installed within the concrete slab to heat and cool throughout the year. Generally, the theatre is designed so that warm and cool air are ventilated through displacement via mechanical shaft traveled at the center of the building. Lake source heat pumps will provide heating and cooling to the interior spaces to maintain thermal comfort. Throughout the year, the theatre’s stratified warm air will be ventilated while circulated with large fans in the public spaces. Exhaust air and supply air will pass through the air space/ mechanical room through the roof structure and the openings will be camouflaged with the use of reflective canopy. Specfically, during the fall and spring, windows are operable on the east and west facade to provide natural cross ventilation.
Detail section of main theatre The main theatre is made of double façade glazing with vertical mullions that can hold up to 8 m tall glazing without needing horizontal connections. The double skin facade creates this threshold for people to experience the art of perception created by the dichroic films in between the two planes. As one can notice, the dichroic film suggests the areas that are private versus public by the amount of film applied on the façade. In other words, as one progresses into public zones, the film shatters into vertical strips and fragments to reveal the blurred boundary from inside out. This pattern creates a shattered reflection of the surrounding environment with various colour effects as the light source constantly changes throughout the day. In comparison to the second stage theatre, it uses polished chrome cladding that closely resembles mirrors. Having one-way mirror film on the very few windows will help give a seamless reflection of the marshland. While at night, the oculus windows attract the eye, in turn dissolve its surroundings.
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The main theatre (top) is constructed into two materials: the primary structural walls are made from reinforced concrete protected by a 1m thick retaining wall to keep the water and wetland out. While the structure above water shifts to steel structures mainly to hold up the roof; however, the structural wall containing the theatre will remain in concrete.
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The second stage theatre (bottom) primarily uses wood structure including glulam beams, columns, and trusses with a CLT panel deck for the roof. The floors use concrete in combination with steel beams to connect to wooden piles to lift the building up above water level and to give the illusion that it is levitating.
AMPHIBIOUS THEATRE //
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F LO AT I N G BAGEL -Portland-
October - December 2019 Academic Team Project: Ben Chang, Eisa Hayashi Roger Huang, Zoha Nekouian M.ARCH II Super Studio Instructors Piper/Miller Rhino, Auto CAD, Illustrator, Photoshop Location: Portland, Toronto, ON
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loating Bagel is part of You’re So Vanier, collaborative Super Studio work of 5 students to revitalize the industrial neighbourhood of Portland Toronto. Our project goal was to enhance the film production environment while repurposing existing historical buildings and iconic structures to bring more tourists and people to this area. Some of the attraction spots include existing historical building and structures such as hern, incinerator, and industrial structure used for brick production. There are also other iconic structures for this project. The largest icons will be the salt mound that will change its form seasonally. Other attractions are a yard collecting unused ships and donut-shaped hotels at the end of the pathway, framing the view towards the south. This attraction creating a connection to the rest of the Toronto waterfront. The major movement to this project was to create a platform above the existing ground level to separate the services and tourism environment while creating a safe area when flooding from Don River occurs. Another major movement is to create a naturalized park on the south side as an area for temporary structures while concentrating on major structures on the north side.
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Villiers Island Proposal Villiards Island Section
Villiers Island Proposal in flood condition Villiards Island Section (Flood)
Floating Bagel Proposal Platform Proposal Section
Floating Bagel in flood condition Platform Proposal Section (Flood)
Conceptual ideas
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Required Programs
Hair & Make-up
Wardrobe
Production
Star Room
Lighting Storage
Sound Stage Variations 10,000 sqft 40 height
15,000 sqft 40 height
Common Rquirements: - Sound-proof - Air Conditioned and headed - 16’ x 16’ door the truck drive-in
18,000 sqft 40 height
45,000 sqft 60 height
- adjacent vehicle parking - Electricity - Optional dressing room
Production Locations Sound Stage
Back Lot
Location Shooting
Flexibility in design Construction need More spending More time spent
Flexibility in design Construction need More spending More time spent Possible large actions
Need permit Accomidation for parking Fast shooting
Parking Variations
Film studio analysis
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Building typologies
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Salt mound
Hotel
Salt mound
Train Station Hotel
Hotel Salt mound
Commisio Train Station
Programs above platform - Guest Room - Meeting Room - Post Production - Rental Units - Food court - OďŹƒces
Hotel
Commisioner
Windowless Programs - Sound Stages - Mechanical Room - Loading Dock - Recording Room - Hair and Make up Room - Photoshooting - Storage (tools, clothings, props) - Workshops - Security Room
Film district with structural details
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Morphology of Salt Mounds
Salt mound variations as icon of this project
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New Monument Area
Existing Monuments
View Points
Industrial Salt Mound
Roundhouse Park
Ontario Place
Lafarge Cement Plant
Canada Malting Silos
Victory Soya Mills Silos
Redpath Sugar Refinery
Commissioners Transfer Station
Hearn Generating Station
CN Tower
Lateral Monument present-future
Locomotive Roundhouse 1931-1986
Theme Park 1971-2011
Cement Processing Plant 1940-present
Malt Storage 1928-1980
Soybean Processing Facility 1944-1991
Sugar Storage and Refining Plant 1958-present
Incinerator 1954-1980
Electrical Generating Station 1951-1983
Communications Tower 1976-present
Museum/ Brewery/ Restaurant 1986-present
Private Venue 2011-present
In Operation 1940-present
Decomissioned 1980-present
Decomissioned (homeless “tent city�) 1991-present
Museum Complex 1979-present
Waste Management Facility 1980-present
Film Studio Property (Studios of America) 2002-present
Federal Real Estate 2009-present
Monumental relationships with Toronto
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P L AY I N G W I T H BUILDING
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xploration, try and error and learning through interactions are popular models of education especially for younger children who are yet to learn how to read. The proposed kindergarten situated at the slope of the Riverdale Park, designed to encourage children’s interaction and exploration with the building, environment and education through the act of play. With the observation of children’s activity patterns in the playground, it is evident that they are in circular movements. This is reflected in the organization of the programs with the central courtyard. The programs and spaces are created through quarter cylinders that include 2 storeys, and they are placed through playful manners where unique moments can be experienced. The shapes also bridge on the north and south side enhance the views and circulation around the environment as well as accessibility through different levels. To amplify the concept of play, the play fixtures are placed on the interior as well. They are located at the transaction point creating a special space only available for children, a secret base. Each classroom has a playful factor as well. Interior walls are textured and coloured differently to notify the type of classrooms and enhance the curiosity of the children. As the building captivates children’s interests, it also guides to explore outside, connect and engage with societies and environments around them. The project will be a transitional point of their life but will be one that builds up the habit of questioning and exploring what they see and given to.
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January - April 2019 M.ARCH I ARC1012 Instructor James Macgillivray Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop
KINDERGARTEN//
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Experimental photography
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Variations of model configurations
KINDERGARTEN//
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Site Plan
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Floor Plans (top: ground, middle: B1, bottom: B2)
Roof Plan
Cross Section
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Cross Section
Logitudinal Section Perspective
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KINDERGARTEN//
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SIGMA
-Embedded Housing for Vanier-
September 2015 - April 2016 Research Team Project: SIGMA (Eisa Hayashi, Cristina Hoang, Anna Leung, Oliver Tang, Sabrina Shen) Revit, Auto CAD, Illustrator, Photoshop Location: Vanier, Ottawa, ON
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IGMA is part of You’re So Vanier, a collaborative studio work with 12 students and a professor, Roger Connah. It was the award-winning studio course, and the assignment was to design a plan to turn Vanier, a lower-income neighborhood in the northeast of Ottawa, into a viable and healthy community. SIGMA aims to respect the existing vibrant and robust Vanier residential neighbourhood as much as possible, while connecting, densifying and incorporating new models of housing so that current residents are not displaced, while new residents are encouraged to come into the community. The embedded neighbourhood interventions involve new urban strategies were designed indivisually, linking with the Vanier 2030. To achieve this, SIGMA Design Group proposes to work with the City of Ottawa’s plan for the future of Vanier and its recent outline for the BBRN 2016 (Building Better Revitalized Neighbourhood 2016).
Role: SIGMA team leader The role included time management, kept the record from meetings and group discussions, coordinated with other groups from You’re So Vanier, directing and deciding the project concept and visual presentation. 34 // SIGMA HOUSINGS
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emon Drizzle ( one of Housing types proposed for embedded neighbourhood interventions involve new urban strategies) respects the existing fabric of Vanier, a town inear Ottawa, providing a new urban edge within the embedded community not a long way from Beechwood Avenue. The massing and assemblage increases the potential of density with the addition of coach houses to the existing tight-Âknit houses. The project contains 50 mixed-Âincome affordable dwellings of new flats, maisonettes and coach houses neatly inserted into a delicate part of the community (with a community kitchen and green house/sun house). It offers an open attractive program which encourages the old and young to come together in a public realm for community engagement and increasing social responsibility. The units are constructed using 4x4m cubes offering a variety of assemblage. There is one focal larger public community space for special events and several small courtyards with more privately controlled intimate spaces. The housing will be further developed by smart living where units are adaptable, energy conscious and encouraging interaction with the street and/or inner courtyard. A sure, safe and lively housing development embedded within New Vanier.
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PUBLIC COMMUNITY SPACE
PRIVATE/ INNER COURT YARD
GREENHOUSE & COMMUNITY KITCHEN
RETAIL AT GROUND LEVEL
P PARKING LOT
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COURTYARD P P COACH HOUSES
POSSIBLE REPURPOSE AS COMMERCIAL/ RETAIL
Metal exterior cladding (Bed room) Wood exterior cladding (Public room, living romm, etc.)
Finish flooring
Moisture barrier Insulation cross ventilation
Strapping/ Frames
Crow space foundation
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Subfloor Cross Laminated Timber
vertical wood siding
Air space
Insulation and air barrier, vapour barrier
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OPENINGS All openings are has slid-able wooden shading which align with the exterior cladding
LADDERS Ladders are used instead of stairs in the units. They encourages residents to have small but efficient living .
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Public Presentation and Community Open House Meetings were held at a former church in Vanier, St. Charles Market. It offered the opportunity for architecture students to have a conversation with people in the community, hearing their voices and receiving feedbacks.
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BIODIVERSITY DOMES RESEARCH FACILITY AND LABS TO EXPLORE AND EXIHBIT CULTIVATION METHODS AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS OF PLANTS
UNDERGROUND BIODIVERSITY REFRIDGERATOTR DOMES PUBLIC STORAGE FOR FOOD CULTIVATED BY COMMUNITY
STREET MARKET
PRIVATE COMMUNITY GARDEN PLANTED IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO EXISTING SCHOOL - FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AND CULTIVATION
WATER TREATMENT AND LEARNING CENTERS
BIODIVERSITY PASSIVE DOMES INCREMENTAL HOUSING
BIODIVERSITY OBSERVATION DOMES AND INFORMATION DECK
BIODIVERSITY SOCIAL EVENT DOMES HUB
BIODIVERSITY ECO EXHIBITION DOMES AND INFO CENTER
STATIONARY STREET BIKES ENERGY PRODUCTION THROUGH HUMAN ACTIVITY
BIODIVERSITY ATHLETIC LOCATIONS DOMES TENNIS AND BASKETBALL COURTS LOCATED IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO HOUSING AND SCHOOLS
INCREMENTAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK DOMES
COMMUNITY BIODIVERSITY MARKETPLACE DOMES OPPORTUNITY FOR SALE AND TRADE OF PRODUCE
COMMUNITY BIODIVERSITY GARDENS DOMES
MACRO BIODIVERSITY ECO BUSINESS DOMES
LOCATED NEAR HOUSING TO ENABLE AND ENCOURAGE CULTIVATION
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MICRO BIODIVERSITY ECO BUSINESS DOMES
BIODIVERSITY BIKE PATH DOMES
BIODIVERSITY WALKING PATH DOMES
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GEODESIC BIODIVERSITY GREEN DOMES HOUSES URBAN BIODIVERSITY FARMING DOMES TOWER
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DIRTY REALISM That’s So Vanier 1
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Baklava Studio was the nickname given to a unit studio on the much-maligned fifth floor of the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism (commonly known as The Dark Side) where the sun slanted in from pitched roof lights. Through trying months of snow, leak and thaw, there was always the beach, a sofa,
Dirty Realism is known as a literary term coined by Bill Buford* in 1983 for the magazine Granta and described as follows: “Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life – a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug
bewilderingly restrictive – we have released ourselves from these rules. We know of course that as soon as the students leave a school like this usually many of them face more and more professional rules and requirements. Are we to ready them for such strait-jackets? So here for a short time in the life of a 4th year student (about to graduate) we say ‘pfui’ to laws, bylaws, zoning guidelines and the creep of small-world planning. There is a parallel
an espresso, and baklava. Students collaborated in ways they have never collaborated before. The atmosphere was infectious, an atelier beyond social media! A kitchen served delicacies, espresso, special tea and baklava. It began with a comprehensively mapped and designed housing study appropriately named – That’s So Vanier; the Dirty Realism Studio – in the somewhat neglected but one of the remaining vibrant unplanned parts of the city, Vanier.
addict – but they write about it with a disturbing detachment, at times verging on comedy. Understated, ironic, sometimes savage, but insistently compassionate, these stories constitute a new voice in fiction.” In many ways this suits us as we explore the quarter in Ottawa, originally Gloucester Township, Eastview and now Vanier. Developing as a detached francophone area of the region, it is easily identified today in the sense of the popular urban myth as seamy
world out there in Ottawa and – along with espresso coffee and baklava - we seek it. We celebrate the not-so-impossible Vanier 2030. Adieu, we say to an Ottawa of such small potatoes and predictable, uncurious developments. Hello to unpredictability and the excellence of incremental urbanism, the running delights of the unknown.
After Christmas 2015, this studio progressed to the urban agenda, You’re So Vanier - exploring a Hyperbolic Urbanism for Vanier 2030. The students were encouraged to stay real in the unreal. They were encouraged to extend beyond the accepted city regulations and somewhat predictable planning directives that already exist for Ottawa. They were encouraged to draw, invent and create a parallel world. A City in the City!
and sketchy; made up of lower income households, some poverty and streetwalking crime. The picture offered expands; developers waiting in the wings with condo towers, ‘nice’ people ready to move in and another tame urbanism to mesh an already tamed Ottawa. Too general we say, too convenient! Forget it!
The students are presented with this picture; we learn to understand – we learn to understand change – but how will we? How will they propose change? What options do they have, what ways can they work in the contemporary in a city seemingly keen to resort to the nostalgic signs and simulations of the past, a brocaded heritage and internalized comfort? Shall we go ugly cute, shall we bring in Bjarke Ingels or OMA, or the gymnastics of Daniel Libeskind, the reputed concert pianist? To say that we are dealing with a sub-category of realism is not quite the case. What is ‘identity’ (that favourite word of planners), what is negotiable, shared and shareable space? As many speak – often from outside Vanier – of the seamier, even shabby side of this quarter, where does this ‘grit’ fit in with our theories of neighbourhood, community, public realm and genius loci? Where is the understated, the ironic, the psychogeography or the savage necessity to keep a city alive and untamed? If we prefer to emphasize the diverse community already existing in Vanier, can we suggest schemes and options that treat them as homogeneous? Why should we? From Beirut to Kingston Jamaica, from Mont Leban to Creole Sensations? From Bobby’s Table to Robert De Niro? From Donnie Brasco to Donnie Darko? Are the people homogeneous because they live in Vanier? How long does a temporary resident take up the property offered before fleeing to better places: Orleans? Barrhaven? Overbrook? Just where are those ‘better places’? North Vanier, Beechwood or Rockcliffe?
* The writers identified by Buford with Dirty Realism are/were Bukowski, Carver, Wolff, Ford, Brown, Barthelme, McCarthy, Gutierrez, Medina, McCullers and Phillips. One must remember, like any usefully framed critical movement, none of these authors accept that they write a ‘dirty realism’. It will be the same with the architecture and urban solutions to the housing offered.
This methodology uses a seeming extremity to situate and reveal the limits of the existing. The existing in this case in the city of Ottawa are its bylaws, zoning regulations, guidelines and other steering mechanisms for the future City. In four separate framing groups the students were encouraged to stay real in the unreal, to extend beyond the accepted city regulations, to draw, invent and create a parallel world. Vanier could become a city in the city, it might double its population yet we are being told by developers, politicians, administrators and planners that more and more rules are being laid down for how the city should develop. So we say ‘pfui’ to those rules. Drawings have been developed to suggest a new approach to urban studies. Ottawa: You’re So Vanier consciously opens up this part of the city to a provocative future through a hyperbolic urbanism.
We are not being rude, we are being urgent!
OTTAWA YOU’RE SO VANIER 2015-2017 Manifesto-lite
We are not being rude
The Baklava Beach Studio is a student collaborative contribution to a city that is awakening to its lost urban narrative. Ottawa, you’re so Vanier! How can students attend to the City guidelines, regulations and the planning applications yet suggest workable new ideas? We don’t know yet, but we came at this in a different way. No one’s work is above the other; we were all in this together. And above all this studio was and still is about the courage (as students and professor) to be wrong; to suggest parallel ideas that open up the discussion. We don’t wish only to keep the conversation going, we put on our camo-jackets and shorts and wish to suggest ways real change can be taken on. • • • • NAIA CONNAH
Hyperbolic Urbanism You’re So Vanier 2 Ottawa: You’re so Vanier presents a series of ideas, an urban framework of strategies. Hyperbolic, relevant, incomplete and sometimes even brilliantly flawed, all these ideas ask one thing: where is the future of this city that we call Vanier? Hyperbolic Urbanism asks questions before questions have arisen.
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The Baklava Beach 4th Year (Comprehensive – Housing / Urbanism) Unit Studio (September 2015 - April 2016) Dirty Realism Housing 1 - Exhibited in St. Charles Church, Beechwood Avenue, Vanier (December 2015) Ottawa You’re so Vanier 2 - the full exhibition Carleton University Art Gallery - CUAG (April 2016)
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OYSV The Studio won one of AIA Cum Laude Studio - Education Awards by the American Institute of Architects 2016 , ARCHITECT AIA (Fall 2016) OYSV Lite Manifesto & Model exhibition at City Hall Ottawa (November 2016) & Richelieu Community Centre 2017
We are being urgent!
We would like to thank Councillor Mathieu Fleury for extending the life of this studio.
VANIER Future Ecologies
THE GOSSIPING TOWERS Vanier Smart City 2030
SIGMA Embedded Housing in Vanier
MAINSTREET URBANISM
After a study of four urban ecologies and their dispersion throughout Vanier, a proposal to create a self-sustaining new Eco-Mainstreet (Marier Avenue) was developed as an urban prototype solution for the future. Four main urban and design strategies emerged as part of the incremental urbanism that would transform this street: Arachnid housing, Eco-Street, Urban Farming and Eco-Businesses. The future new Eco-Mainstreet would transform the existing street incrementally, providing sustainable cultivation of food, small-scale environmentally friendly interventions, zero-net carbon residential options, eco-friendly businesses, and educational developments. The Marier Eco-Street 2030 becomes a measured and monitored energy system and an urban framework for a transforming neighbourhood and expanding network.
The Gossiping Towers is an experimental projection of the modern urban hub; a future smart city, a transit-gateway hub for Vanier acting as a catalyst for future development. Using a hyperbolic urbanism, it proposes urban solutions that realistically could be integrated into Vanier by 2030. The urban parcels that make up the intended development lie between Cumming’s Island on the Rideau River and Vanier’s downtown core including North of Montreal Road. Much of the existing urban stock is dated and will soon be in need of serious maintenance. Key features on the existing site include a retail plaza, a motel, and other commercial premises. Most of these would be removed within the incremental urban vision proposed and a smart city to rival downtown Ottawa itself.
SIGMA proposes an experimental future densification strategy, an urban and community housing development in the residential neighbourhoods of Vanier, Ottawa. SIGMA aims to respect yet incrementally transform the existing vibrant and robust Vanier residential neighbourhood, by incorporating new models of housing. Residents are not so much displaced as invited to become part of the new Vanier 2030. This is post-sentimental planning, where the embedded neighbourhood interventions involve radically new urban strategies. This is post-developer urbanism; these measured interventions for a vibrant future - in density and intensity - are located in areas evaluated on their location, vacancy, and their potential to rezone for an incremental urbanism from 2016-2030.
Montreal Road and McArthur Avenue are two major mainstreets in Vanier. A radical transformation of these streets for 2030 serves to suggest densification and intensification strategies of selected areas with appropriate commercial and retail needs as well as housing solutions. Using urban mappings on building heights, land use and business types, undeveloped plots and parking spaces, the proposals aim to maximize densification with public spaces and urban plazas. Parking is re-strategized and more mixed-use buildings for the future Vanier including a new Ottawa University street campus are proposed.
Mia Giommi - Audrey Caron - Dawn Ling - Stephanie Agar
Tyson Moll - Shawn Duke
Anna Leung - Eisa Hayashi - Sabrina Shen - Cristina Hoang - Oliver Tang
Kripa Gyawali - Neha Bhargava Balquis Attef
A Z R I E L I S C H O O L O F A R C H I T E C T U R E & U R B A N I S M - C A R L E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y - O T TAWA
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OTTAWA: YOU’RE SO VANIER (Urban Ecologies, Gossiping Towers, Sigma Embedded Housing, and Mainstreets) Instructor: Roger Connah (professor) Students: Steph Agar, Nahid Ahmadi, Balquis Attef, Neha Bhargava, Audrey Caron, Shawn Duke, Mia Giommi, Kripa Gyawali, Tori Hamatani, Michelle Harper, Eisa Hayashi, Cristina Hoang, Anna Leung, Dawn Ling, Tyson Moll, Heeva Salemi, Sabrina Shen, Jason Surkan, Oliver Tang 50 // SIGMA HOUSINGS
Published on Architect Magazine
The Eighth Annual Architect 50
New Sandy Hook Dominique Perrault at Versailles The Housing Show Josh Shelton’s House Trenton Revival Passive Affordable Housing MALL Sandwiches
architectmagazine.com The Journal of the American Institute of Architects
The Studio Prize The summa cum laude design studios of 2015–2016
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