Hannah Brash Thesis Portfolio

Amenity Urbanism

Hannah Brash

Amenity Urbanism by Hannah Brash B.E.D.S., Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 2009-2013 Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture in The Faculty of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Architecture Program Committee Members: Sara Stevens (Chair) Ph.D., M.E.D., B.Arch, B.A. Mari Fujita (Internal) M.Arch, B.A. Kelty McKinnon (External) Director / Principal of PFS Studio, CSLA, BCSLA GPI Mentor: Sherry McKay Ph.D., M.A., B.A.

Š Copyright April 2017 University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

ABSTRACT The contemporary city appears as a sea of podium-towers circumscribed by greenery. The tower and the green in-betweens are representative of the two driving development regimes shaping the city of Toronto, landscape urbanism and what I’m calling Condo Urbanism. The result for public life is this: in their amenity-filled podiums, condo developments privatize, homogenize, and parcelize civic amenity. The traditional park, modeled on passive recreation, offers a weak response in its static typology and inelastic program.

My project, Amenity Urbanism, responds by creating a rich multiplicity of amenity within the urban fabric. It proposes a more nuanced mode of development that untidies the relationship between public and private, indoor and outdoor, and condo and park. It leverages the construction of new condo and office towers to create an explosion of leisure programs for the public, redefining both park and podium.

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Amenity Urbanism level two plan

Level 2 plan

1 to 1000 site model

1 to 1000 site model detail of breezeway meeting pedestrian street

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1 to 250 sectional models of programmed strips

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1 to 1000 sketch model showing tower placement and circulation corridors

1 to 2000 massing sketch models

1 to 500 spatial explorations sketch model

1 to 1000 laminations sketch model detail

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