BLURRING EDGES

Co-habitation between neighbourhood and ravine

Scale: 20 ha Type: group / academic Date: Winter 2022

Smythe Park is part of a fragmented ravine corridor located throughout the city of Toronto. Fragmentation has made the area vulnerable to chronic flood events due to the overflow of the Black Creek.

By blurring the edges in and out the park, the project proposes the establishment of a co-habitation policy, where portions of the backyards will be retrofitted as a trade-off. This way, the newly programmed floodfriendly park, provides infrastructural and social connection between the right of way, property, and parkland.

Multifunctional tidal pools and interventions