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KATRINACRISTOBAL 34 Vernon Road, Scarborough, ON M1R1J2
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416-755-3021 (home) 416-666-8147 (cell) katcristobal@gmail.com
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BArchSc, Bachelor of Architectural Science, Architecture Design Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada 3.2 Grade Point Average 2010-2011 Ryerson University Dean’s List, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science • •
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Construction Practices Management Site and Development Planning Sustainable Rating Systems
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Integration Design Studio Design Studio: The Small Building and Urban Intervention Principles of Construction Detailing Document and Construction Contract
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Proficient knowledge of integrated design process, urban design principles and building systems Able to create and present planning solutions using construction drawings and architectural detailing Understanding of basic zoning, building codes and issues involved in spatial planning Organized and effective in communication skills orally, literally and graphically Proficient knowledge in 3D Software Visualization and rendering Fast learner, team-player, multi-tasker and possesses the ability to work under pressure Comfortable with hand sketches, freehand drafting and communication Resourceful, attention to detail and sophisticated eye for design Strong conceptual as well as technical abilities
Proficient in • Mac and PC Software • MS Office Suite • Autodesk AutoCAD (2008-2010) • Revit Architecture 2009 • • •
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Competition, INDEX Designing for Education Challenge, • November 2010 Competition, Toronto Urban Design Awards (Student Category) May 2011 Student Member, Royal Architecture Institute Canada
3d Studio Max (2009-2010) + Mental Ray/V-Ray 1.5 Rhinocerous 4.0 Google Sketchup + V-Ray/Kerkythea Adobe Creative Suite Student Member, American Institute of Architecture Students (2008 – 2011)
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MODERN ART IN THE CITY p27
THE THIRD PLACE
MALIVOIRE WINERY
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THE GARDEN BRIDGE p46
OAA 2030 RETROFIT CHALLENGE p61
INDEX CHALLENGE: THE CH/ESK
LIVING ON MAIN ST 2030 p72
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the high street culture CULTURA, 204 BLOOR STREET, TORONTO
CULTURA, 204 Bloor Street, Toronto 2010 Third Year Integration Studio Project, Mix-Use High Rise Condominium A high street is a thoroughfare in a major city which is considered the epicenter for business, history and culture in one coherent location in a major city, attracting local residents and garnering attention on a global scale. The high street provides more than just a means of travel, but a personification of the character of the city culture. This project involves a full comprehensive design of a mix-use high-rise building named Cultura, located in Toronto’s most prestigious street, Bloor. This full comprehensive design process includes pre-design research, feasibility studies that account for prime real estate costs and target revenues of the fictitious client, schematic design, design development, technical detailing, and construction working drawings and documents. 9
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View of CULTURA from street view.
The project is a mix-use high-rise condominium proposal located in Toronto’s High Street, Bloor West. Its prime location in the city’s cultural hub has lent to its name and exclusivity. Strict design parameters were followed in relation to the Official Toronto Plan, zoning, and the Ontario building code while ensuring that the building’s design produces high-end spaces for its users and enhances the context surrounding it. The design approach of this building was to create a simple, elegant form that optimizes engagement with the rest of its richly cultural site and to ensure that the building fits within its context in all aspects. The design parti of this building is based on the idea that culture can occur at different scales--a nation, a city, a community, a street--but are all interrelated and affect each other. This is followed by the building’s form, where different scales of volumes are placed together to create a cohesive fit.
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Aerial view of CULTURA. 12
PROGRAM MECHANICAL GREEN ROOF PENTHOUSE, FULL FLOOR, 3 BR, 2 STOREY AMENITY ROOM (GYM)
Cultura is owned by a fictional client who wishes to create a building that not only reflects the current needs of Bloor Street, but to create some revenue for his company as well. In order to achieve such targets, the proposed building included a mix-used program that takes advantage of Bloor Street’s high real estate value. The building’s program is categorized under Commercial, Residential and Services Functions for full optimization of revenue and space.
HALF UNIT, 2 BR 4 HALF UNITS, 3 BR, 2 STOREY
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3 OFFICE FLOORS 2 RETAIL FLOORS SERVICE AREA STORAGE MECHANICAL 3 PARKING FLOORS
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View of CULTURA lobby.
RETAIL/OFFICE FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:500
TYPICAL HALF UNIT PLAN SCALE 1:500
GROUND FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:250 15
LOWER FLOOR PENTHOUSE PLAN SCALE 1:250 16
View of penthouse kitchen and terrace. 17
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View of penthouse terrace.
UPPER FLOOR PENTHOUSE PLAN SCALE 1:250 19
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View of green roof amenity space and southern Toronto skyline.
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WALL 1 1. firestop 2. heating perimeter in slab 3. hardwood flooring finish, 300mm concrete slab, suspended ceiling 4. operable aluminum-framed windows 5. spandrel panel cover, 25mm air space, 75mm rigid insulation, air vapour barrier, steel backup sheet, firestop, concrete slab 6. ballast stone veneer panel, vertical steel mullion, 25mm air space, 75mm rigid insulation, air vapour barrier, concrete block, gypsum wallboard 7. steel flashing
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WALL 2 1. spider connections for glass rail 2. spandrel panel cover, 25mm air space, 75mm rigid insulation, air vapour barrier, steel backup sheet 3. heating perimeter in slab 4. finish concrete paver, support member, weather membrane, 75mm rigid insulation, air vapour barrier, 300mm concrete slab 5. double glazed courtain wall 6. spandrel panel cover, 25mm air space, 75mm rigid insulation, air vapour barrier, steel backup sheet, firestop, concrete slab 7. hardwood flooring finish, 300mm concrete slab, air vapour barrier, 75mm rigid insulation, 25mm air space, ballast stone panel finish 8. double glazed curtain wall 9. stainless steel railing 24
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View of pavilion exterior.
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modern art in the city PAVILION, Q UEENS PARK, TORONTO
Queen’s Park, Toronto 2008 First Year Design Studio Project, Art Pavillion Project This studio project involves a schematic design for a pavilion that is inspired and houses a chosen piece of artwork from the modern art movement. This pavilion is part of a proposed Modern Art in the City Movement in Toronto, which is to be located in Queen’s Park Toronto, along with other pavilions housing different art pieces from different modern artists. The piece chosen was Wassily Kandinsky’s On White II, where his use of geometry, rhythm and bright use of colour inspired the form of the pavilion.
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View of pavilion interior.
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Aerial view of pavilion exterior.
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SECTION AA
SECTION BB
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WEST ELEVATION
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NORTH ELEVATION
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Interior view of The Third Place: An Urban Retreat.
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the third place MIXED USE BUILDING, Q UEENS ST EAST, TORON TO
Moss Park, 322 Queen St East Toronto 2009 Second Year Design Studio Project “The Third Place” is the concept of an urban escape, with the “First” and “Second” place being home and work respectively. The proposed design is a mixed-use building in Moss Park in Queen Street East, where it integrates commercial and residential uses. This project is explored in the design development phase where it looks into existing local urban conditions in which cautious contrast, such as respectful building scale and materiality, is required against the traditional building fabric of Queen Street. Technical resolution of the building is also explored. This includes code compliance with local building codes and zoning by-laws and technical detailing of the envelope system. 33
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Exterior view of the Third Place mixed-use building.
SITE PLAN SCALE 1:2000 The Third Place is simply the balance between the public life and the private home life, or as Ray Oldenburg states, “Third Places are nothing more than informal public gathering places.” Or, in other words, an urban retreat. The proposed Third Place is a reflection on the local culture of Queen Street. As Toronto’s hub for the Arts, it made sense to create a space that pays homage to that, particularly literature, where every book in itself is a retreat. The proposal is a quiet bookstore/cafe hybrid where users can sit down, and have a quiet space to read against the hustle and bustle of downtown Toronto.
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GROUND FLOOR 1. QUEEN ST. ENTRANCE 2. BOOK STORE 3. LOBBY 4. RESIDENTS ONLY CORRIDOR 5. LOUNGE AREA 6. WASHROOM 7. STORE ROOM 8. CAFE 9. STAIRS TO COURTYARD 10. RAMSAY LANE ENTRANCE
SECOND FLOOR 1. LIVING/DINING 2. KITCHEN 3. STREET-FACING BEDROOMS 4. LAUNDRY 5. WASHROOM 6. COURT-YARD FACING BEDROOM 7. GARBAGE CHUTE 8. TELE-ELEC ROOM 9. COURTYARD SEATING 10. SKYLIGHTS
2ND FLOOR + COURTYARD (TYPICAL UNITS) SCALE 1:250 37
LONGITUDINAL SECTION SCALE 1:250
SOUTH-FACING ELEVATION SCALE 1:500 38
The site is a long and narrow area, flanked by two existing buildings. There was great challenge in allowing light to penetrate deep enough to each floor of the building. This was resolved by introducing a central courtyard on the second floor. In addition, the courtyard created a private outdoor space for residents. Light wells from the courtyard also allowed light to reach the center of the ground floor, right where the reading lounge area is located.
WALL SECTION SCALE 1:75 1. roof concrete paver, support member, weather membrane, 75mm rigid insulation, air vapour barrier, 300mm concrete slab 2. stainless steel coping 3. stainless steel flashing, weather membrane, 75mm rigid insulation, air vapour barrier, 290mm concrete block backup wall, air vapour barrier (wrapped around the concrete block), 75mm rigid insulation, 25mm stone veneer panel. 4. roof paver, weather membrane, 75mm rigid insulation, air vapour barrier, 300mm conrete slab, air vapour barrier, 75mm rigid insulation, steel ties, 25mm stone veneer panel. 5. steel flashing 6. stainless steel window frame. 7. double-glazed window 8. stainless steel sill flashing 9. corten steel metal panel, 75mm rigid insulation, air vapour barrier, concrete block backup wall, furring strips, 13mm gypsum board 10. double glazed sliding glass wall 11. stainless steel edge flashing 12. metal panel, steel beam structure bolted together, 75mm insulation, air vapour barrier.
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Model of proposed Malivoire Winery building.
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malivoire winery WINERY FACILITY, NIAGARA ESCARPMENT
Niagara Escarpment Region, Canada 2008 Second Year Design Studio Project This project is the schematic design for Malivoire Vineyards’s new facility on the Niagara Escarpment Region in Canada. The new facility must follow Malivoire’s current gravity-fed wine making process in its program. Gravityfed wine making process ensures that wine is produced naturally. The winery must also include spaces for retail, management and mechanical facilities. This project explores the relationship of program, form and its ties to the unique geography that the new facility is to be built on.
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SITE PLAN SCALE 1:2000 The proposal takes cues from the site’s steep topography for its functional requirements. The building stacks all of the wine making programs on top of each other to follow the gravity-fed wine making process. It also takes formal cues from the escarpment’s unique topography, creating large concrete-clad geometric forms that mimic geological rocks. Lastly, the proposed facility ties together all of its program through the use of procession: using a central ramp that takes visitors through the facility’s programs in order of the gravity-fed wine making process. The central ramp also separates the different categories of programs from each other.
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FLOOR PLANS SSCALE 1:800
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TRANSVERSE SECTION SCALE 1:500
LONGITUDINAL SECTION SCALE 1:500
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the garden bridge URBAN BRIDGE, NIAGARA NEIGHBOURHOOD, WEST TORONTO RAILPATH, TORONTO
The Garden Bridge 2011 Fourth Year 8th Semester Design Studio Thesis This project involves a comprehensive design of a urban intervention project located along Toronto’s West Toronto Rail Corridor. These urban interventions are to be small in program, but significant in impact along the rail path. The objective is to turn the underutilized and underdeveloped areas along the rail corridor to be attractive and beneficial spaces for the neighbourhoods around it. This comprehensive design project involved project research (which included collaboration with a parallel urban planning studio), schematic design, design development and technical resolution of the proposed interventions. This project demonstrates that design is not only the outcome of research and analysis, but also a form of research and analysis. 46
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NIAGARA NEIGHBOURHOOD - ORDONANCE TRIANGLE - FORT YORK
Community to the amenities of Fort York and the Waterfront. 4.) While communal spaces are present, they are underdeveloped.
The portion of the Rail Corridor being examined is located in the Niagara Neighbourhood segment between Strachan Avenue and Bathurst Street. This area has had several major problems identified which require intervention.
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PROBLEMS 1.) Boundaries - The Rail Path and the Gardiner Express sever through the neighbourhoods, creating “backspaces� out of areas. 2.) Underutilized Areas - The industrial nature of development around the rail path have produced underutilized areas due to the shift in function of these spaces. Most of the spaces today serve as parking lot areas that do not contribute to the neighbourhood. 3.) Lack of connection - the lack of connection fails to successfully bridge Niagara
1.) Large number of amenities within proximity, specifically Stanley Park and the historic Fort York. 2.) Presence of existing sustainable urban living concepts--community gardens . Three specific areas are have been investigated for intervention , consisting of the vast parking lot south of Stanley Park on Wellington (04), the under used triangular brown field area wedged between the rail paths (Ordonance Triangle, 02) and the green area directly west of Historic Fort York extending down to the Gardiner Expressway (05).
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PROPOSAL The proposed urban intervention must be able to address all the problems of the current site. Furthermore, the intervention aims to connect the neighbourhood to existing amenities, create a communal urban space and expand the sustainable urban living concepts already present on site. The GARDEN BRIDGE is the hybrid of a bridge, park and an urban market, that aims to reach all the set criteria. These criterion are met through a few strategies. These include 1.) Expansion of existing eco-corridor and urban gardens on site. 2.) Create active connections and landings. 3.) Attract activities on and under the bridge.
PUSH, PULL & LIFT! The parti’s concept is the act of varying elevations of the plane of the bridge deck to create opportunities to create “Activity Spaces”. These “Activity Spac50
es” connect to the multiple landings the bridge touches on and to create pockets of shelters on the bridge deck itself. This is done through pushing down and lifting up the planes in different elevations, in order to form series of steps and canopies.
CONNECT TO LANDING Pushing down planes of the bridge deck can create a series of steps. These are the physical connections to the landings.
CREATE INTERESTING SPACES FOR ACTIVITY The aforementioned steps and the created shelter on the bridge deck (through lifting of the planes) produces spaces where users can sit and enjoy the space.
EXPANDING THE ECO CORRIDOR As the tying thread to the three objectives, the main proposed activity on these “Activity Spaces” is urban agriculture as part of the intent to expand the existing community gardens on site.
SITE PLAN SCALE 1:1500
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ORDONANCE PARK
TOOL COMPOST SHED AREA CISTERN STORAGE
ORDONANCE FARM
GROUND PLAN - UNDER THE BRIDGE/ORDONANCE TRIANGLE SCALE 1:500
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View of quality of space under the bridge.
FARMER’S MARKET
Aerial view of Garden Bridge and steps.
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DRAIN
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DETAIL OF GARDEN STEPS PLANTERS SCALE 1:20
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DETAIL OF GARDEN STEPS SCALE 1:20
IRRIGATION PIPES ROOF DRAINS
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View of light penetrating through the bridge deck.
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LEFT: SCHEMATIC IRRIGATION/DRAINAGE SYSTEM Rainwater/snow is collected through the drain. It goes to the cistern located below the steps. They are processed and pumped back through the irrigation pipes to irrigate the gardens. Ideally, each allotment have controls to their irrigation. 57
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View of proposed urban market program under the bridge on Ordonance Triangle.
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View of proposed exterior retrofit changes on the OAA building.
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OAA 2030 retrofit challenge ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS, 111 MOATFIELD DRIVE, TORONTO
111 Moatfield Drive, Toronto 2010 OAA 2030 Design Charrette, Fourth Year Sustainable Ratings Systems Katrina Cristobal, David DiGiussepe, Arkadiusz Zjawin, Joseph Song, Lindsay Rowland, Craig Smith, Maria Egoavil This charette is a collaboration between Ontario Association of Architects and Ryerson University’s Architectural Science program to brainstorm how to transform the OAA building into the building standards of the 2030 challenge. This retrofit challenge is done through collaborative effort in research and analysis of the current OAA building, conceptualizing, strategizing and implementing green technologies that will attempt to achieve net zero carbon building, while being wary of energy consumption of these technologies.
KEYMAP OF OAA 2ND FLOOR (NTS)
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evaluate the existing conditions of the OAA building.
P R O BL E MS 1. TOO MUCH SUN The building is located in an open landscape, which leads to maximum sun exposure. The building’s existing envelope is composed mostly of glazing, creating too much solar penetration into the building..
2. LOW R-VALUE The OAA’s existing envelope has a high percentage of glazing.
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address real design problems of the OAA building and retrofit challenges.
This causes low R-value and poor overall thermal performance.
3. UNDER-UTILIZED SPACE The programming of the building is inefficient,
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transform the OAA building into the building standard of the 2030 challenge.
leading to a combination of under-utilized spaces such as the large atrium and cramped offices.
4. GLARE Excessive sun exposure due to the large percentage of glazing leads to glare in the spaces, especially those adjacent to the south wall. This has lead to occupants to use umbrellas to shade themselves against the uncomfortable light.
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implement strategies that utilize green technologies that try to address net zero carbon building.
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5. ENVELOPE FAILURE The OAA’s current building envelope has massive problems with cracking, condensation and overall envelope failure. This has lead to massive heat loss and increased heating loads.
6.. LIGHTING The lighting system in the OAA adds to solar glare, contributing to the uncomfortable light levels. There is also a lack of control, since there are only 2 light switches for all the building’s lights, leading to high energy consumption.
PRO PO S E D PA S S I VE S O L UTIONS 1. SOLARIUM In the winter, intake air is treated by veg-
3. HEAT RADIATED FLOORING In the winter, liquid heat-
etation within the solarium. It is then heated in the sun in the solarium. In the summer, the glazed solarium walls are opened. This allows the thermal mass to exhaust heat at night.
ed by solar hot water heaters on the roof is circulated through the solar mass and then radiated through flooring. In the summer, the solar heaters are disconnected from the radiant flooring and thermal mass provides the system with cooling.
2. THERMAL MASS In the winter, solarium air is fed
4. GREEN WALL In the summer, offices vent into the atrium. The Green Wall, located at the bottom of the stack effect chimney provides evaporative cooling in the summer which supplies the chimney with a greater pressure gradient that accelerates warm air out of the building. In the winter, office air is exhausted into the atrium where it is reheated by the thermal mass and treated by the green wall. 63
through heat exchangers in the thermal mass where it is heated further. This air is then transferred into the ceiling plenum where it is vented to the offices. In the summer, thermal mass is shaded and actively cools the building through stored heat absorption where it is expelled at night.
O T HE R S O L UTIONS A. PV SYSTEM TO PRODUCE ENERGY A PV system will be installed in the steel canopy of the building’s roof to provide energy and some shade for offices on the 3rd floor.
B. SOLAR HEATERS TO PRODUCE HOT WATER The existing inefficient gas boilers will be replaced with solar heaters to provide hot water to the building, located in the central part of the roof.
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C. MORE EFFICIENT LIGHTING Light bulbs in the offices will be replaced with efficient T8 fluorescent bulbs and tasklights will be added for individual control. Motion sensors will be added to the system to reduce energy consumption.
D. SOLAR CHIMNEY A solar chimney will be implemented in the double height space at the north end of the atrium to help improve ventilation. It also will help cooling the building through air convection in tandem with the thermal mass system.
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index challenge: the ch/esk INDEX CHALLENGE 2011 COMPETITION,
2010 INDEX Challenge Competition Entry Fourth Year Digital Tools Course by Katrina Cristobal and Kim Lim The INDEX Design Challenge 2010 is titled Designing for education. The challenge objective is to design versatile school furniture using waste materials for schools in developing countries that lack proper furniture due to their harsh economy. This design challenge hopes to increase student comfort, in turn encouraging proper school learning and attendance. The project’s use of local waste materials also aims to promote a cheaper and sustainable alternative to making furniture out of raw, imported materials. Using local waste is more economical, ecologically-friendly and can generate new jobs for local small-scale artisans. We look specifically at SubSaharan African countries to frame a specific context in order to develop a sound process in making the proposed furniture. However, the processed develop is also possible for production in other developing countries in other continents with similar problems.
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MAT ERIA LS Waste materials are considered to provide a cheaper, reusable and sustainable alternative to virgin materials, which can cost a lot more. The cheaper costs can help alleviate the pressure on school budgets. Waste materials for this challenge must fit under the following criterion: abundance in developing countries, durability, and positive environmental impact. The two materials considered are scrap wood and end-of-life tires.
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Sub-Saharan Africa has a strong timber industry that produces significant percentage of wood exports.. However, the timber industry only markets 40% of the wood as timber, leaving 60% as waste wood or as saw dust that is dumped or burned. A more economical approach of getting rid of this waste is to re-use it.
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END-OF-LIFE TIRES “Over one billion tires are discarded each year globally. Currently, an estimated 4 billion tires are stockpiles worldwide.”
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End of life tires are tires that can no longer be used in vehicles. They area common waste product found in large volumes all over the world. In Sub-Saharan Africa, tires are not accepted in landfills and are discarded in large quantities through burning. Reusing end-oflife tires decreases negative impacts of burning tires and produces a new use for otherwise ineffectual objects. The tires’ durable, flexible and elastic rubber can provide comfortable properties to the proposed furniture.
The CH/ESK
This design is based on the idea of multi-use from a single object. Here, the furniture’s function is based on its orientation. The furniture is a chair when the writing board is oriented vertically. It then transforms into a writing desk when it is turned into the upright position, with the writing board oriented horizontally. The dual-use allows for flexibility within the classroom. 69
ABOVE: Views of the CH/ESK in use in the classroom, where its orientation can determine its function, thus allowing flexibility. RIGHT: A 3D-printed model was created to explore the product’s form and proccess of fabrication. 70
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View of proposed changes to Danforth Avenue.
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living on main street 2030 EASTERN DANFORTH AVENUE, TORONTO
Eastern Danforth, between Macy Ave to Wanstead Ave, Toronto 2010 Fourth Year 7th Semester Design Studio Thesis, Urban Design Toronto Urban Design Awards 2011, Student Entry This project, named “Living on Main Street 2030” is a comprehensive design that rejects existing negative urban conditions of an identified main street. Instead, the design rethinks the concept of “main street living” to improve local livability for surrounding communities, increase activity, density, proximity, connections, variety and to transform the main street into beautiful, active and sustainable spaces that do more than let vehicles pass through. This project involves analysis of current conditions--from the neighbourhood scale to the pedestrian scale--and design development that features responses to the main street’s issues identified in the analysis from both macro and micro scale.
Views of existing street showing vehicle priority.
PROPOSED STREET PROGRAM Eastern Danforth Avenue (between Macy Avenue and Wanstead Avenue) is a main street that currently prioritizes vehicular use through its street configurations (wide roads, narrow sidewalks, large parking lots between buildings and the sidewalks) and economic activities. The car’s major role in the street’s development has produced an urban form that has declined the street’s livability and economy and will continue to do so if it continues to rely on the car as its means of travel and the main source of its economic activity while the city shifts forward to more sustainable means of living and travel. Life on Main Street 2030 proposes to counteract these issues by promoting local livability, sustainability, connectivity, density and proximity in its architecture and urban design, thereby creating a new standard for living for the future.
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PROPOSED STREET FEATURES 1. CONNECTED MAIN STREET
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CONNECTING MAIN STREET: PROPOSED STREET PLAN SCALE 1:2000
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TYPICAL STREET SECTION SCALE 1:500
REORGANIZED STREET PRIORITY Reshuffling street priority to accommodate pedestrians, cyclists and public transportation over vehicular traffic. The proposed street features a central bike lane to allow maximum safety for cyclists. The lane’s position is critical as they add to visibility of cyclers to oncoming vehicles who might be turning. The street also features widened sidewalks and more prominent cross walks for pedestrians. Less road assigned to general traffic to mitigate the volume of traffic through the street.
RULES OF THE ROAD: STREET PLAN SCALE 1:500
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CONSISTENT STREET FRONTAGE: PROPOSED ELEVATION SCALE 1:500
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View of proposed street design from street level.
BACK LANES AS PUBLIC SPACE. By increasing public activity at grade, a network of public spaces is created to increase proximity and local livability. The proposed plan uses laneways beyond the Main Street as public space in order to connect surrounding neighbourhoods to the Main Street.
PART-TIME PARKING SYSTEM Parking on main street would be decreased by allowing vehicular parking to be done only during working hours. Past that, or if these parking lots are otherwise unoccupied, these parking spaces would be reclaimed as part of the sidewalk and as part of the public space.
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KATRINACRISTOBAL 34 Vernon Road, Scarborough, ON M1R1J2 416-755-3021 (home) 416-666-8147 (cell) katcristobal@gmail.com http://issuu.com/katcristobal/docs/portfolio