University of Waterloo School of Architecture
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Fall 2023 Selected Works
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Above: Winter balcony facade visualization
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Project: Affordable Housing Location: Cambridge, ON
Clustered Cooperatives ARCH292 Design Studio December 2022 With Jin Rioux
Rhino, Enscape, Illustator, Photoshop
Amidst a deep housing crisis, Clustered Cooperatives proposes a community-centered housing complex for those experiencing social, environmental, and creative alienation. Designed with singles, the elderly, and multi-generational families in mind, the project synthesizes three housing typologies: the duplex, the apartment, and the work/live unit. Each is adaptable by its occupants, responding to evolving needs and allowing aging in place. Each apartment floor generates smaller social clusters, emulating an urban block. Social corridors encourage spontaneous interactions and indoor greenery, fostering community on smaller scales.
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Above: Site context axonometric
Above: Dining hall visualization
Clustered Cooperatives
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Surrounded by townhouses, Grand River Lofts, and mid-rise apartments.
2. CARVE
U-shape forms courtyard and street wall against Water St.
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3. AXIS
Volumes lowered to maximize south exposure. Double height cutout.
Site reponse
4. GROWING
Lining interior faces of mass with winter gardens for all-year growing.
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Cores create small communal clusters. Retail strip along Water St.
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Courtyard landscaped with bioswales and community gardens.
Bordered by the River Lofts apartments, townhouses, and a mid-rise condominium, the site is an intersection of housing typologies. Across from the vehicle traffic of Water St. is Cambridge’s defining Grand River.
Above: Massing morphology
Above: Cross-section perspective
1. Isolated user groups Above: Social parti diagram
2. Families as optic core
3. Unrelated individuals mirror family structures
4. Clustered living typology bridges social connections
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Above: Courtyard visualization
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Above: Axonometric callouts
Above: Exploded axonometric
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Three unit typologies
1. Multi-generational townhome unit
Modular variation
2. Live-work apartment unit
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Above: Unit floor plans Designed within a flexible grid, the three housing typologies each have multiple variation, integrating individual creativity into all the units.The winter garden corridor is translated into allotment gardens on the live-work and townhome units.
Above: Fragment detail section
Flexible elements
Social space
Retail space
High traffic
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Interior unit visualization
Winter garden corridor visualization
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Above: Sacred Fire courtyard visualization
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Project: Truth + Reconciliation Lodge Location: French River, ON
Land Camp for Indigenous Wellness ARCH293 Design Studio August 2023
Rhino, Enscape, Illustator, Photoshop, Procreate
The Anishinaabe way of life is inseparable from living off the land. Situated along the French River, the Land Camp for Indigenous Wellness lends a permanent location for culturally, socially, and environmentally alienated Indigenous youth and elders to participate in seasonal land camps to reconnect with their Anishinaabe identities and centralize time-honoured traditional knowledge. Grounded in the rock of the Canadian Shield, the lodge aims to hold land-based ceremony and culturally congruent wellness and healing programs, reconnecting previously isolated Indigenous Peoples into a celebratory commons.
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Land-based knowledge centralization The elder + youth program pairing allows intergenerational teachings that have been lost through settler-colonialism. The architecture facilitates programs of communal cooking, artifact making, foraging, ceremony, counseling, eventually dissipating outwards into the French River landscape for holistically healing land activities such as foraging and plant identification.
Above: Coastal elevation
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Legend 1 - Sweat lodge 2- Sacred fire 3 - Changerooms and storage 4 - Guest rooms 5 - Artefact gallery + foyer 6 - Reception + offices 7 - Maker space 8 - Storytelling den 9 - Demonstration kitchen 10 - Dining hall
11 - Kitchen and servery 12 - Staff room and offices 13 - Counselling rooms 14 - Medicine room 15 - Event storage 16 - Land education classroom 17 - Staff + residing Elders cabins 18 - Planting area 19 - Boathouse storage Above: Site plan
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From periphery to commons
Above: French River Indigenous reserves mapping
Legend First Nations Indian Reserves Tribal Council Council - First Nation Relationship Canoe Routes Site
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Indian Reserves
1 - Atikameksheng Anishnawbek 2 - Wikwemikong 3 - Henvey Inlet First Nation 4 - Magnetawan 5 - Dokis 6 - Shawanaga First Nation
A - Whitefish Lake No. 6 B - Point Grondine No. 3 C - Wikwemikong D - Henvey Inlet No. 2 E - Magnetewan No. 1 F - Naiscoutaing No. 17a G - Dokis No. 9 H - Shawanaga No. 17
Main Lodge
Guest Rooms
1. Programmatic volumes along corridor Above: Massing morphology diagram
2. Offset volumes
3. Rotate along axis to follow topography and create views
4. Raise roofs to create clerestory windows and sawtooth roof
Land Camp for Indigenous Wellness
Above: Guest rooms cross-section
Above: Main Lodge cross-section
Above: Presentation model
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Reinforcing cultural identity By establishing a sense of permanence through the architecture while also touching lightly on the land, the lodge hopes to establish pride and belonging in Indigenous youth who may have lost contact with their cultural practices in reserves.
Above: Main Lodge storytelling pit visualization
Scales of community Three typologies of the Main Lodge, Guest Rooms, and Staff Cabins are all based on the same principles of using porosity to create connections, both visually and physically, to the French River landscape. At every opportunity, the modular massing allows for multiple points of entry, circulation, and interaction with the ecosystem around the site, simultaneously creating semiprivate pockets for individual counseling, and wide open spaces for communal ceremony. Above: Guest Rooms axonometric
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Above: Main Lodge axonometric
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Above: Canopy structure visualization
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Project: Pedestrian Bridge Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Stalactite ARCH193 Design Studio January 2022
Rhino, Illustator, Photoshop
Stalactite is a small wooden pedestrian bridge that connects two sides of the Ancaster Creek and frames a view of Sherman Falls. The material logic borrows from the verticality of the surrounding trees and becomes a threshold for hikers crossing the creek. Motions of swelling and compression invite venture, pause, and reflection. The project was designed around the human scale and is an exploration of materiality and assembly.
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Sherman Falls
Above: Parti sketch
Above: Site plan
Above: Deck plan
Canopy to column connection
Column to deck connection
Stalactite
3x10 canopy joists 2x6 members
1x6 decking
Concrete foundation 3x10 span beams 3x8 diagonal members
Above: Exploded axonometric
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Walking through visualization
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Cross-section perspective
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Iterative process
Above: Process sketches
The bridge design focuses on a person’s vertical experience. Walking across the bridge, each individual wood slat seems to be frozen in motion, relying on the aggregate system to stay secured in place.The design borrows from the gestures of the Carolinian forest and acts as a second wooded canopy by filtering sunlight into fragments.
Above: Lookout point visualization
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Above: Courtyard visualization
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Project: Nutritional Centre Location: Dakar, Senegal
Children’s Home Kaira Looro Competition June 2022 With Michael Kay, Jin Rioux, Chelsea Wu, Xiuting Shi
Rhino, Illustator, Enscape, Photoshop
Located in Baghere Village, Children’s Home accommodates children undergoing treatment for malnutrition and mothers supporting them during their recovery. The program includes a public kitchen, community pantry, bedrooms, classroom, and clinic, which frame the central courtyard. Through offering a safe space to rest, learn, and play, the project hopes to help youth suffering from the nutritional crisis in Senegal.
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Nursing area visualization
Courtyard side entrance visualization
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Subtractive geometries
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Floor plate
Core removed for courtyard
Entrances carved out
Roof for maximum shade
Roof raised for rainwater collection
Above: Massing morphology diagram
Privacy wall
Nursing area
Children’s play area
Shower stalls
Outdoor classroom seating
Laundry area
Eating area
Outdoor rocket stove
Vegetable garden
Above: Exploded axonometric
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Sectional relationships
Above: Section perspective
Baghere Village
Above: Site plan
The surrounding area is populated by multi-generational housing, sacred baobab trees, a mosque, the 2021 Kaira Looro Women’s House Competition winner to be constructed down the road. In front of the site is the main road, bordered by a footpath and shaded forest.
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1 - Nursing 2 - Play area 3 - Clinic 4 - Waiting bay Above: Floor plan
5 - Cistern 6 - Bedroom 7 - Outdoor toilets 8 - Changing room
9 - Shower stalls 10 - Laundry area 11 - Food storage 12 - Open-air kitchen
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Above: Courtyard visualization
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Above: Ceramic Studio visualization
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Project: Library+ Location: Toronto, ON
Corktown Ceramics ARCH193 Design Studio April 2022
Rhino, Enscape, Illustator, Photoshop
The Corktown Ceramics Library is inspired by Toronto’s masonry history and is focused on returning to analogue forms of learning. Engaging the street corner where the Broadview streetcar drops off commuters daily, the building strives to strengthen the material identity of the city and allow the widespread enjoyment of ceramics. The library is catered to young artists, children, and anyone who wishes to gain knowledge through books and clay.
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Above: Site masonry material study
Timeline of Ceramics in East Toronto Thousands of years ago
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Ice age leaves glacial river at the Don Valley. The floodplain joins the Mud Creek and Don River.
Test samples of Mud Creek reveal clay is ideal for making masonry bricks
Don Valley Brickworks opens
After Great Toronto Fire, bylaws require buildings to be made out of masonry
Hurricane Hazel floods Toronto. Ravine lands are acquired by the Toronto conservation authorities
Don Valley Brick Works ceases operations
Above: Concept site axonometric
Gardiner Museum opens
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Three programmatic volumes
Interlock to create interstitial spaces
Lower south volume for daylighting
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Rotate to create cantilever and terrace
Soften sharp corners where people turn
Above: Morphological diagram
Above: Sketch parti models
Above: Presentation model
Surrounded on all three sides by heavy traffic, the forces of vehicular and pedestrian movement deeply influence the form-finding of the library. With solar, commuter, and landscaping considerations in mind, the library is built off of a playful series of volumes.
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Above: Isometric section (BB)
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555 Queen St E The Library+ program consists of a public ceramic studio and cafe on the ground floor, and reading and study spaces on the second floor. Gallery space is scattered throughout the library for both experienced and amateur artists to showcase their works.
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The three library programs embrace a courtyard landscaped with recycled Toronto bricks and provide shelter from the site’s prominent traffic.
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Above: Section AA
Masonry facade A perforated brick rain screen wraps the library, allowing it to act as beacon on the street at night. The softly diffused light offers a momentary pause in the transit-filled intersection and encourages passerby to venture in and explore what is vaguely visible from the outside. Truth windows across the facade reveal the library’s materiality to visitors both inside and outside the library. Display case windows showcase community ceramics along the feature staircase.
Above: Exterior approach visualization
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Above: Fragment detail section
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Above: Reading space visualization
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Work Samples
Above: Rendered facade study elevation
Above: 3D-printed context model
Work Samples
Above: McMaster University masterplan cluster axonometric
Above: McMaster University masterplan phasing axonometric
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+1 (647) 677-1383 e96kim@uwaterloo.ca Toronto, Ontario