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CONTENTS curriculum vitae
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selected works kona // supportive housing skeletal cumuli // steel design competition the building as a terrain // modelling with plaster the right to the park // masterplanning empowerment of the imagination // public library
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HANNAH CARMICHAEL 04
EDUCATION University of Waterloo Candidate for Bachelor of Architectural Studies
2015 - present Cambridge, ON
Greenwood College School Ontario Secondary School Diploma
2009 - 2015 Toronto, ON
Perkins + Will Architectural Assistant
Winter 2017 Toronto, ON
EXPERIENCE
Contributed to the design development stage of a major recreation project through iterative drawings and models, hand and digital, while completing 8 feasibility studies, and graphics for client presentations
Toronto Beaches Children's Chorus Set Designer
2015 Toronto, ON
Independently designed and created six painted set panels for the choirs performance of Oliver Twist through extensive thematic research and stylisitc experimentation.
SKILLS Photoshop
Rhinoceros 3D
Illustrator
Revit
InDesign
Cad
Muse
Physical Model Making
ACTIVITIES Co-Director of Alternate Reality Game
BRIDGE Waterloo Architecture
Intellectual Character Award
President's Scholarship of Distinction 2015
Co-directed 76 people in a the production of an alternate reality game for a class wide assignment, which caught the attention of local radio and newspapers.
Planning and facilitating events such as Art Battle 2015, through student intiative to engage students and the community with design.
AWARDS Greenwood College School Achievement of outstanding academic results and demonstration of a high level of critical, creative and independent thinking.
University of Watlerloo Entrance average of 95% and above
BOOKWORM HIKER hockey player
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To Whom It May Concern: I am writing to express support and recommendation for Hannah Carmichael as a prospective employee. In the period that Hannah was with the Toronto Perkins+Will studio, she demonstrated critical skills in every role and task assigned to her. Hannah did a terrific job in her position as student intern and was an asset to our office during her tenure. She was able to assist me directly on a conceptual design project and contribute to a larger team in the design development of a major recreation project. She has excellent design and written communication skills, is extremely organized, can work independently, and is able to effectively multi-task to ensure that all projects are completed in a timely manner. For the Moncton YMCA feasibility study she capably took my concept sketches and developed them into a credible concept plan. Because of her effectiveness, I even gave her additional responsibilities to organize the feasibility study related to that project. Hannah went above and beyond in that assignment, and created a very concise and compelling draft that we could build upon. Concurrently with that task, Hannah was able to balance her workload to prepare a very engaging community consultation presentation. These were only two of the many tasks she contributed to. Other tasks included working effectivity with a larger team on a pool and arena project. She helped them during the design development stage preparing for client presentations and microplanning meetings. This allowed her to showcase her design, graphic and presentation skills. In short, Hannah has developing skills that would be an asset to an architectural design firm, and I recommend her for any endeavor she chooses to pursue. Please let me know if you have any further question Sincerely,
Philip J. Fenech OAA, MRAIC Principal,
phil.fenech@perkinswill.com Mobile: 416 702 7523 Office direct 416 217 6525
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KONA
project brief
featured in school
OPEN HOUSE
type: supportive housing
location: toronto, on
course: 2a design studio
Kona is supportive housing for women and their children from vulnerable backgrounds of housing insecurity, financial insecurity, drug abuse, or domestic abuse. The project transitions the women to secure and sustainable livelihoods and programmatically and architecturally empowers women and children through adventure, leadership positions, liberative conditions, autonomy, and collective celebrations of one another.
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TRANSITIONAL PROGRAMS
circulation
the unimpeded adventure
toronto support for women precedent study
sistering
redoor
redwood
employment
food
counselling
housing services
immediate shelter
drop in programs
income
medical services
peer support/workshops
navigation of gov't systems
kona child care/after school school improvement ADDITIONAL commercial
FORGING LEADERS OF EQUALITY
early childhood education
early childhood education models precedent study
tdsb
emilio reggia
hjalli
ithaca forest school
garden preschool
Gender equality begins with the development of the child, and is the foundation of the project. The early childhood development centre emphasizes mutual respect, cultivation and appreciation of nature, community engagement and a celebration of the many languages children speak in order to develop them as divergent thinkers and active independent and collaborative members of their community. A child that is valued as an individual rather than a product of their gender is a child that will respect the individuals around them regardless of differences, and with the celebration of their individual way of communicating they will be more empathetic to what is being communicated to them through nature, speech, art, and action. Hannah Carmichael Selected Works 2017
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CIRCULATION STRATEGIES The adventurous and playful quality of the architecture, specifically the circulation, aims to liberate both women and child in their movement, imagination, and curiosity, so that their transition is far from institutional but rather sets a new standard for how the home and community makes you think, feel and act. The form celebrates the individual as a courageous adventurer, using a diverse topography of interactions and experiences so that one may think divergently, feel deeply, and act freely.
Preschool's transition to exterior residential alleyway
unimpeded adventure/roofscape
unimpeded adventure
adventurous, diverse terrain, liberating
fifth floor
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third floor
ground floor
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the canyon
fragment section - A
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the hike home fragment section - B
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SKELETAL CUMULI project brief with Madeleine Reinhart
type: pedestrian bridge
competition: ssef
location: toronto, on
course: 1B building construction
Skeletal cumuli acts as an experiential observatory as well as a way to celebrate and alleviate dense pedestrian traffic which is often viewed as suffocating. The act of walking through the Yonge and Dundas intersection immediately becomes an adventure in which pedestrans are able to observe human activity and traffic patterns from above, while being observed themselves from the surrounding buildings and by those below.
A series of compressed burrows promote human interaction within a translucent, permeable skin of steel wire mesh. Release is felt when these small burrows grow into larger spaces which act as view platforms overlooking activities on yonge and dundas.
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structural steel details A pin connected grounding the mast B catwalk platform and suspended spiral staircase
C unwelded rods and steel mesh D mast to cable fan connection
E steel cable, used in connecting the mast
to the catwalk platform, and the catwalk to the surrounding buildings
F full fan connection assembly G welded flexible steel rod connection
(compression members shaping steel mesh and connection catwalk to steel cable)
H section demonstrating affect of E, resulting in organic shapes
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BUILDING AS A TERRAIN project brief
type: material exploration
course: 1B design studio
This project aimed to explore the material qualities of plaster. Throughout the exploration of this material it became apparent that it was an extraordinarily intimate process. Through embracing the materials limitations and pushing others, the sensual quality of fluidity, only seen in the first seventy seconds while pouring and molding, was captured. This revealed new ideas of inhabitation, terrain, and the companionship of time, gravity and a subtle touch.
process
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mapping
proposition
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THE RIGHT TO THE PARK project brief with Penny Unni
type: park revitalization
course: 2b studio
location: Ontario Place, TO, ON
''The Right to the Park' refers to ideas from Henri Lefebvre's 'Right to the City,' which argues that each individual has the right to participate in the making of the city, something that is unavailable when public spaces are only concerned with consumption, safety and security. Loops of circulation with 'Variables of Danger' allow for a range of engagement and appropriation within the park while ensuring one's path is unpredictable. The park provides the infrastructure for disorder, but the future of the park is entirely in the hands of the occupants: nothing stops them from extending or enhancing their footprint. The public domain should not be feared when it isn't curated or controlled, it should provide collective empowerment through the freedom to disrupt, intervene, and take creative risks - only then will the park be public.
recreation climbing walking biking running walking climbing swimming mountain biking harcore parkcore snowboarding roller blading ice skating skate boarding roller derby skiing
variables of danger grade change speed maintenance + infrastructure interventions + obstructions smooth/sharp turns wide/narrow observation/observed dark/light quiet/loud isolation/collective
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MOMENTS OF INTENSITY
circulation
intersections, over/under/through etc
CIRCULATION STRATEGIES
relationships
interdependant and dependant conditions
grade change
speed
maintenance + infrastructure
interventions + obstructions
vegatation density
quiet/loud
recreation 'hubs'
sightlines
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EMPOWERMENT OF THE IMAGINATION
project brief
featured in school YEAR IN REVIEW
GALLERY
type: public library
location: toronto, on
course: 1B design studio
This children’s library proposed for downtown Toronto is programmatically and tectonically designed to engage and empower children in their exploration of the imagination. The goal of this library is to employ tactics that create spaces of opportunity rather than imposition of ideas, to allow children to manipulate and occupy the library in ways that best fit their creativity, confidence, sense of adventure and wonder.
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WORLD MAKING autonmous outlets that teach/inspire
EMPATHY
Activating a rich imagination requires exposure to fictional and non-fictional worlds followed by autonomous outlets to inspired creation. These outlets take shape through programs such as writing workshops, an art studio, nature filled courtyards and most primtively, fort making. By granting a child autonomy over their environment, something rarely experienced in a prolonged stage of choices made by others, you are empowering them to think, feel, and see with an empathy that creates a better world.
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