A Horse of a Different Color: Urban Design in the Great Northeast Winter 2017 LA 402 L - Advanced Landscape Design Lab
Laguna Beach, CA
College of Environmental Design Landscape Architecture Prof. Andrew Wilcox
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Team Members
Karla Quevedo kaquevedo@cpp.edu
Lance Hassani lrhassani@cpp.edu
Chunguang Pan cpan@cpp.edu
Timothy Tay tmtay@cpp.edu
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Project ONE: Morphology Precedent Studies the Street by Lance Hassani the Alley by Karla Quevedo the Square by Timothy Tay the Unique by Chunguang Pan
Project TWO: Mapping + Inventory + Vision Readings The Exposed City by Karla Quevedo Landscape as Urbanism by Lance Hassani Shifting Sites by Chunguang Pan Floating Seeds by Timothy Tay
Trends Community by Karla Quevedo Climate by Lance Hassani
Technology by Chunguang Pan Urbanism by Timothy Tay
Mappings Retail by Karla Quevedo Ecology by Lance Hassani
Transportation + Population Growth by Chunguang Pan Urban Morphology by Timothy Tay
Our Vision
Project ONE
Morphology Precedent Studies
Looking west along King from York, 1856
King & Yonge, 1896
The Gurney Iron Foundry on King Street West on April 13, 1927. Toronto Archives, S0071, It.4812 (1)
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Corktown Common The Corktown Common is a park where people can come to meet and play together. The park contains many programs that cater to the people’s interest. Each of which contains gathering areas, walking paths, marshes for educational use, and greenspace for all to enjoy. The site was transformed from a previous industrialized occupant. The transformed brownfield became an 18-acre park built as a waterfront of Toronto. The Don River borders the Corktown Common. In case of a flood, the area of which part of Common can help intercept it. The morphology of the site gives it its form based on the underlying features that border. For one, the Don River on one side which officially introduces the use of the park but at the same time maintains its uniqueness as a park. The GO transit line is another feature bordering the Corktown Common. And the West Don Lands and Canary District, which are developing neighborhoods. These features come into play and create the accessibility and form of the park itself. The park gives way to different elevational changes thanks to Landscape Architect, Michael Van Valkenburgh. The parks elevational changes add an additional effect to the overall enjoyment. The given site context compared to what’s seen in GTA, has its own uniqueness. Toronto is an engaging city full of bustling people. Having the initial thought of gathering and enjoying stroll in the outdoors, people would set their minds on going to the Corktown Common. The pace slows down just a little bit.
Park: where public gathers for recreation or celebration
R O M 1922’s Royal Ontario Museum www.rom.on.ca
1930’s Royal Ontario Museum www.rom.on.ca
1980’s Royal Ontario Museum www.rom.on.ca
The Royal Ontario Museum(ROM) is largest museum in North American, exhibits of Art, World Culture and Natural History. ROM was established on 1912 and the museum was opened to public on 1914, which become pride of the Toronto. During its history ROM had close relationship and management with the University of Toronto. Untill 1968 the museum started management by the city of Ontario, and renovation begun in 1978.
The province of Ontario attempts to merge the past and history together to create new symbol for the Toronto, which the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal mark the new age for the ROM. The Crystal is inspired by crystalline form in the ROM mineralogy galleries, it naturally arranged in microscopic structure and extends in all directions. This symbolizes that everything connects to the downtown Toronto. The Crystal building organically interlockand Culture exhibits in the museum. The exterior construction of the Crystal is 25% glass and 75% extruded-brushed, aluminum-cladding in warm silver color to make people feel warm in the winter. The seamless space, because the materials is used to give interior clarity of circulation and transparency. And the shape itself created icon of the museum.
2007 Royal Ontario Museum www.rom.on.ca
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Queen's Park
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Victoria University
Royal Ontario Museum Varsity Centre
Hierarchy
University of Toronto Philosopher's Walk
"Why should one expect the new addition to the ROM to be 'business as usual'? Architecture in our time is no longer an introvert's business. On the contrary, the creation of communicative, stunning and unexpected architecture signals a bold re-awakening of the civic life of the museum and the city." - Daniel Libeskind 2007 New the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal entry, create the distinctive new symbol of Toronto for the 21st century
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Royal Ontario Museum1980 Curatorial Centre Library mark of Modern architecture
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Project TWO
Mapping + Inventory + Vision
Projected through assumption
Projected through experiencing
Readings In regards to my reading, Thayer shines upon his judgement of the world around us. “Landscapes that create an illusion of a better world while depriving us of the actual means of achieving it are not sustainable. “ With one of the idea he projects --- a visual ecology. By experiencing the workings of the landscape only then we can see how the environmental behavior works. He talks about how human behavior interprets the world through abstraction, deduction, and discourse. We need to open up our view and actually experience it first hand; all of us that is. This can be the only means of building a sustainable landscape. Another one of his many inquiries calls for the inconsistency and its impacts on the landscape. Technology to be more precise, is the reason why most of us are delusional to the fact that it dicates our sense of landscape sensibility. We won’t be able to identify the aided simulation that creates this fantasy we all enjoy. There are certain technologies that give us the edge to help imbue these ideas but will that help us make that clear choice? Thayer emphasizes that it will always be an illusion as we try to perceive the most perfected one. So by this we shouldn’t be awed by technology but guided by it.
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ECOLOGY Given the site context, the local ecology nearby the site is vast. These include the Humber Arboretum and the many parks along the Humber River. The Humber River seems to be a vital entity as it circulates through the green massing that makes up good part of Toronto’s ecology. This can show how the inclusion of local ecology can be met within this site. This area of greenery is only just a portion of the Green Belt. Wetlands, marshes, forests, watersheds, are just some that are included within Canada’s protect green space --- the Green Belt. The rapid pace of urban development is contained by this ecological land. The Golden Horseshoe, as they like to call it, is the region of Southern Ontario that is densely populated and industrialized. The Green Belt helps counteract that measure to help protect the environment within that portion of Ontario. It’s amazing to see this trend happening. Seen here are, again, the local ecology wraps around the urban surface and directly goes through it. The Humber River plays a big role in prolong the lifespan of these green areas. For this to have a lasting impact shows this is an example of a balance between nature and the urban.
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Woodbine will emerge as Toronto’s beacon of horse-racing family-oriented environment. Woodbine will be identified changes where Woodbine can be appreciated year-round. community to connect ecology with the urban environment
Vision
and entertainment while integrating a multi-cultural and as Toronto’s symbol of enjoyment that highlights seasonal Woodbine will also create the opportunity for its diverse while touring, relaxing, studying, wandering, and playing.
horse legacy
diverse community
Goals
entertainment
seasonal design