Kelley Gu
Winter 2019
Kelley Gu
4A Architectural Studies kelley2gu@gmail.com
5749 Knights Drive Manotick, Ontario, K4M 1K2
Summary of Qualifications • • •
Hands on skills in producing drawings, renderings, and visually communicating information Proficient in a wide range of 2D and 3D drafting and modeling software Independent, self-motivated, and a good team player
Relevant Skills • • • •
Has expertise in both vector and raster graphics as well as indesign layouts Capable of creating collages and digital paintings to convey architectural ideas Gained familiarity with 3D rendering engines such as V-Ray through academic work Eloquent at writing, fluent in English and French
Software Proficiencies Rhino 3D Sketchup Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Autodesk AutoCAD Autodesk Revit Vectorworks Work Experience Design Assistant, Mallen Gowing Berzins Architecture [Vancouver, BC, Canada 9 Sept. - 16 Dec. 2016] • Primarily created 3D models of mixed use residential midrise projects around Vancouver • Prepared code packages for local businesses using Vectorworks and AutoCAD Architectural Assistant, Stantec Architecture [Vancouver, BC, Canada, 8 Jan. - 17 Aug. 2018] • 1 Worked on the Vancouver Airport expansion project producing Sketchup and Revit models • Designed and created images of a seniors’ care facility for Providence Health Care using Sketchup and Photoshop Education Candidate for Bachelor of Architectural Studies Honors Bachelor of Architectural Studies, University of Waterloo, Cambridge, ON, Sept. 2014-present
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CONTENTS @ STUDIO 04 ANTI-MONUMENT 06 CITY OF CROWS 16 OPEN_SOURCE 26 @ WORK 32 AIRPORT PROJECTS 34 SENIOR CARE CENTER 38 CODEWORK 42
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NOW IS THE TIME TO DREAM AND TO BE BOLD
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STUDIO PROJECTS (AND OTHER URBAN FANTASIES)
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4A STUDIO
collab. w. ien boodan
ANTI-MONUMENT How can one truly appreciate a given site of historical significance if provided less than an hour to follow a guide and take a handful of pictures? This museum project, located just south of the Roman Colosseum, is a critique on the ever-destructive commercialization of landmarks and tourism. Through a simple act of creating a wall facing away from the most well-known landmark of Rome, we separate ourselves from the rest of the city outside. A seamless, rugged exterior of weathering steel and an interior clad with local stone, the wall is an object placed in the landscape that draws eyes and compels human curiosity. With landscape lowered to street level around it, locals and visitors need only to follow it to its entrance and enter a world beyond time. The wall, thickened with a portico, would house a permanent collection of 109 busts as well as restroom facilities, administration/security services, food, drink, and retail. By factoring out these auxiliary spaces, the scattered pavilions are able to act autonomously as objects arrayed in a radial field of trees, connected back to the wall only by a path suggested by free-standing columns. Above the portico is an open space for temporary exhibitions that is to be designed per curator per exhibit.
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The pavilions, in addition, are connected in a network of underground tunnels that give explorers of the site an alternate, secretive method of moving through space that disorients yet invites surprise. The centroid of the site’s radial grid is the antithesis of a monument. A shallow pond, flush against the ground, empties into a void, a black abyss visible only from the edges. Water crashes down, falling past the underground level, and makes its presence known through its echoes in the corridors. Anti-monument therefore has a double meaning: a monument protesting against monuments, as well as an exploration of what the opposite of a monument can be. With denial and reward, redundancy, and playfulness, we seek to reunite architecture and landscape to the human body, preserving and procuring culture.
entering site from colosseum
walking along the portico; distant objects reveal themselves
underground, where the ancient rome model will be
in the theatre where a performance will be
on the upper tier of the portico, a secret entrance is revealed...
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FUTURE (above) digital projections surface literal glass ceiling projection room mezzanine and floor pilotis and ramp
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(below) e-classroom ramp entrance to wormhole
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PAST (above) roof glass floor above rome model
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(below) rome model entrance to wormhole
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future pavilion: spherical digital projection & tech labs
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(below) entrance to wormhole WORMHOLE (above) glass block walkway field entrances (below) pavilion entrances field entrances street entrance occulus
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past pavilion: ancient rome model (as spectacle & memory)
PRESENT (above) roof meeting space listening space speaking space
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present pavilion: lecture theatre & meeting spaces
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wormhole; insterstitial timespace connecting devices on-site
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3B STUDIO
CITY OF CROWS
In a speculative world in the not too distant future, humans have populated the entire wilderness, leaving only pockets of earth and trees for the birds and the beasts. A group of crows find themselves pressured over fighting for the dwindling resources; shelter is scarce, and food is hard to find. Speaking amongst themselves, the crows decide to learn from humans and steal their knowledge, building materials, and eventually their architecture itself. These birds have united to create a metropolis for themselves, appropriating abandoned buildings, and eventually displacing the humans and reclaiming their lands. City of Crows is a cautionary tale told through the medium of sequential art and architecture — one that implores us to examine our relationship with the nature that emerges within the city. It asks us to find a way to welcome it and even learn from its tenacity before it is too late, and work to prevent our mutual destruction.
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Crows use their intelligence, tenacity, and resourcefulness to thrive in environments otherwise hostile to more fragile species. In the world of humans today, crows have carved out their own place in the city, digging through garbage and stealing human goods, making friends and causing mischief. This self-directed studio project began as an architectural exercise on how to design for the other, using the crow as metaphor, and concluded with a series of sixteen comic panels. As architects, we will always be designing for the other: because our own identity is limited by who we are, we find ourselves inevitably designing spaces for ethnicities, classes, genders, ages, professions, (or in this case, species), other than ours. It demands a certain sensitivity and level of research to be able to imagine oneself as the other — and through that create a more informed and empathetic architecture.
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concealment
other birds eggs
corn [16ft]
Fruits and 500 to 1200mm
wheat [3’]
Hides and buries food
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fallen nuts and seeds sprouts
foraging 1:100
1m
rod
White Oak [100ft/35m]
Typ. nesting height [25ft/7.6m]
chases other birds to wrestle them to the ground
d berries
dents and lizards
human trash
Ground [0] bugs and larvae
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flies in straight, purposeful lines
40km
nest
max. travel distance
~ 4in between birds?
nest cup lined with soft materials
10in 1.5ft
Pairs mate for life 20
+1 or many helpers
4000ft [1200m]
max. passerine migratory height
1400ft [420m]
Typ. max. soaring height
treeline
200ft [60m]
Vernacular
Cambridge elevation: 1100 ft. 21
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Methods Beak
Talons
Wings
Tail
Breast Crow weight: 320-620g Carrying capacity: 200-400g
Materiality Rocks + Pebbles Mud + Clay
Sticks + Branches
Grasses + fibers
Mosses + Down Other objects Trees Oak Maturity: 75 yrs/5 generations Pine maturity: 40 yrs/3 generations
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1:1
eak = 1”- 1.5” ody = 8” wing = 13” ad feather = 7”
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Senses: sight hearing
34”
16”
8”
1m
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3A STUDIO
OPEN_SOURCE
Where do our products come from? How are they made? How do they work? Many objects we buy and use today are made by someone else, far away and in a place unseen. In a world dominated increasingly by commercialization and profit, people are dependent on large corporations to provide goods to them; people see it as a necessity to depend on them for food, clothing, and technology, and through time people forget how to simply make things.
Rejecting the common solution of creating a single block, the masterplan suggests breaking down the megablock into smaller parts through axillially cut access lanes and internal footpaths. This gives buildings a sense of transparency through exploring and celebrating the normally hidden back alley work. Exposed steel and painted ductwork again highlight the transparency of the buildings’ services instead of hiding them away.
This is the Black Box Problem: the deliberate Workshop spaces are centrally placed on the obfuscation of the fabrication and internal site and the spaces between them create small plazas in which craftsmen could occupy in workings of objects. the summer months and children could play Open_source is a masterplan located in a in the winter. Multi-story buildings frame the formerly industrial area near the center of site and provide a continuous street face all Toronto. It seeks to address the Black Box while sheltering the interior. Problem by creating a community that fosters v education and craftsmanship.
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ETAIL (L)
ESTAURANT (S)
residential lobby
TAIL (M)
BELOW
TAIL (M)
TAIL (M)
residential lobby
RETAIL (M)
RETAIL (S)
ich bar
Summer 2017
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O P E N _ S O U R C E: OPEN _ SOURCE is an inter-learning and inter-working mixed-use community along Carlaw and Dundas, Toronto, reappropriating and densifying an industrial lot. By exposing residents, students, and visitors to a variety of experiences and providing them with many different tools, the project attempts to tackle
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office (supervision) raw material storage
completed works
RETAIL (L)
RESTAURANT (S) machining floor
INDUSTRY (L) woodshop
residential lobby
assembly area
RETAIL (M)
EXHIBITION + ASSEMBLY PARKING BELOW
RETAIL (M)
‘WIP’ plaza
RESTAURANT (S) RETAIL (M)
glass + pottery assembly area
tinkering workshop
RETAIL (M) finished storage
INDUSTRY (S) [suggested]
residential lobby
INDUSTRY (L) metalshop
mechatronics
RETAIL (S) RESTAURANT (S)
RETAIL (M)
forge
raw material storage welding area
RETAIL (M)
RETAIL (S)
3d printing
software dev.
relaxing fountain
loading cold cold storage storage
RESTAURANT (M)
RESTAURANT (M) café sandwich bar
SCHOOL + OFFICE
lounge
water
REFERENCE LIBRARY
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Kelley Gu
The project is situated in eastern Toronto, along Carlaw Ave. and Dundas St. East
Summer 2017
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Kelley Gu
GNIKRAP
Summer 2017
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SOMETIMES THE BEST LESSONS ARE THE ONES FOUND, NOT TAUGHT.
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WORK SAMPLES (AND PRIOR EXPERIENCE)
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STANTEC, VANCOUVER // JANUARY 2018
AIRPORT PROJECTS
I was assigned to the Airports Group at Stantec, as a student with a wide range of skills. They were lacking someone to work with 3D models and translating sktches into plans, and thus I did a wide variety of work generating materials, renderings and diagrams for various airports around the world such as the Vancouver Interactional Airport (YVR), a proposal for an expansion of the New York Airport (JFK), and the Mariscal Sucre Airport in Quito, Ecuador (UIO).
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With the team, I learned about passenger flow, wayfinding, and how to place signage in an effective way, as well as how to consider all the mechanical factors inherient in designing a large-scale infrastructural building that could easily accomodate a hundred thousand people moving through it per day.
check in queue and baggage drop
scale 1/16”= 1’0
automated bag drop
check in desk
baggage drop
baggage claim scale 1/32”= 1’0
customs kiosk
USCBP desk scale 1/16”= 1’0
holdroom scale 1/32”= 1’0
TSA queue scale 1/32”= 1’0
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STANTEC, VANCOUVER // MAY 2018
SENIOR CARE CENTER
At Stantec I had the opportunity to collaborate I produced the entirety of the site and its model with Ray Pradinuk, a leading architect in the in Sketchup as well as prepared renderings for field of healthcare and senior care. Among the submission. the projects I had helped with, my most significant contribution was towards a proposal to Providence Healthcare Vancouver for a community for seniors suffering with dementia, located in Comox, British Columbia.
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MGBA, VANCOUVER // SEPTEMBER 2016
CODEWORK AND OLCS
At Mallen Gowing Berzins Architecture, I had the opportunity to familiarzie myself with the Vancouver Bylaws and the British Columbia Building Code (BCBC). Familiarity with codes is a useful transferrable skill when it comes to designing safe and functional buildings.
Using Vectorworks, I prepared code packages for small businesses in the area looking to apply for occupancy changes, factoring area, exit distances, door widths, and washroom loads. In addition, I have also done a handful of patio applications during my time at this office.
PROJECT LOCATION
ARCHITECTURE + INTERIOR DESIGN
CIVIC ADDRESS 2808 Main Street (building: 2828 Main Street) Vancouver, BC V5T 3G2
LEGAL ADDRESS PUBLIC CORRIDOR
STRATA LOT 49, PLAN BCS2939, DISTRICT LOT 302, NEW WESTMINSTER LAND DISTRICT
LIST OF CONTACTS
NOT AN EXIT
ARCHITECT
PROJECT LOCATION MGB ARCHITECTURE INC.
MAIN STREET BARBER & CO. c/o Harrison Stoker Tel: (604) 899-3229 CIVIC ADDRESS Cel: (604) 358-2299 hs@donnellygroup.ca 2808 Main Street (building: 2828 Main Street) Vancouver, BC V5T 3G2
c/o PJ Mallen and Mary McMains #300 - 7 EAST 6th AVENUE VANCOUVER, BC V5T 1J3 Ph: (604) 484-8285 Fax: (604) 484-6070 pjwmallen@mgba.com mmcmains@mgba.com
ARCHITECTURE + INTERIOR DESIGN
10'-4"
CLIENT
LEGAL ADDRESS STRATA LOT 49, PLAN BCS2939, DISTRICT LOT 302, NEW WESTMINSTER LAND DISTRICT
PUBLIC CORRIDOR
EXISTING W/C
OCCUPANT LOAD CALCULATIONS Vancouver Building By-law 2014 (3.1.17)
LICENSED OCCUPANT LOAD CALCULATIONS
NOT AN EXIT
10'-4"
MGB ARCHITECTURE INC. 16 Occupants c/o PJ Mallen and Mary McMains #300 - 7 EAST 6th AVENUE VANCOUVER, BC V5T 1J3 Ph: (604) 484-8285 Fax: (604) 484-6070 pjwmallen@mgba.com mmcmains@mgba.com
12'-7"
74.0 sq.m. ARCHITECT 16 Occupants
MAIN STREET BARBER & CO. Total Occupants c/o Harrison Stoker Tel: (604) 899-3229 Cel: (604) 358-2299 hs@donnellygroup.ca
BARBERSHOP Group D Business/Personal Services
Occupant Load
Barbershop Patron Area
33'-7"
LIST OF CONTACTS Description Area
4.6 sq.m./Occupant CLIENT
EAST 12TH AVENUE
Symbol
Vancouver Building By-law 2014 (3.1.17) Symbol
Description
Area
Occupant Load
Design Load
EXISTING W/C
Barbershop Patron Area
1.2 sq.m./Occupant 74.0 sq.m. CALCULATIONS 61 Occupants 8 Seats + _ staff OCCUPANT LOAD
Description
Area
__ Occupants
EAST 12TH 5'-10" AVENUE
16 Occupants
Total [Clause Occupants Vancouver Building By-law 2014 3.7.2.2.(4)]
Both sexes are permitted to be served by a single water closet if the occupant load in an occupancy referred to in Sentence (6), (10), (12), (13), (14) or (16) is not more than 25.
LICENSED OCCUPANT LOAD CALCULATIONS One (1) Universal W/C Symbol
Description
Area
Occupant Load
Design Load
Barbershop Patron Area EXIT CAPACITY CALCULATIONS 1.2 sq.m./Occupant 74.0 sq.m. 61 Occupants
8 Seats + _ staff
Vancouver Building By-Law 2014 [3.4.3.2.(1a)] Total Occupants
__ Occupants
61 Occupants
1m x 1m CLR.
2'-6"
One (1) existing non-conforming W/C Vancouver Building By-law 2014 (3.1.17)
2'-3"
Required: Provided:
BARBERSHOP Group D Business/Personal Services
Occupant Load
Barbershop Patron Area
W/C REQUIREMENT 4.6 sq.m./OccupantCALCULATIONS 74.0 sq.m. 16 Occupants
12'-7"
Symbol
61 Occupants
33'-7"
Total Occupants Vancouver Building By-law 2014 (3.1.17)
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EXITING CALCULATIONS FOR EACH SUITE
2016.12.07 CLIENT REVIEW
DATE
REV
Required
__ Occupants max. @ 6.1mm/Occ
98 mm
Provided*
Capacity
. LR C . m s. @ C 0m cc OC 87 42 o m/ 1 .1m 6
Description
W/C REQUIREMENT CALCULATIONS 142 Occs
5'-10"
Exit A: Primary Entry Door (6.1mm/Occ) 870 mm Vancouver Building By-law 2014 [Clause 3.7.2.2.(4)] Total Suite Exit Capacity 98 mm 870 mm
142 Occs
2'-3"
2'-6"
5'-11"
12'-7"
One (1) Universal W/C One (1) existing non-conforming W/C 1
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4.
2808 Main Street Vancouver, B.C.
SHEET TITLE:
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EXITING CALCULATIONS FOR EACH SUITE
MINIMUM NET CLEAR WIDTH FOR DOORS MUST BE 800mm MIN. TO MEET Description Required Provided* BARRIER-FREE REQUIREMENTS.
REV
__ Occupants max. @ 6.1mm/Occ 98 mm THE NARROWEST POINT, PINCHPOINTS ARE CIRCLED ON THE PLAN TO SHOW OR EXIT CAPACITY, OF THAT DIRECTION'S SYSTEM. Exit A: Primary Entry Door (6.1mm/Occ) 870 mm 142 Occs AS PER VBBL 3.4.3.2.(7)., EVERY EXIT SHALL BE CONSIDERED AS CONTRIBUTING Total Suite Capacity 98EXIT mm WIDTH. 870 mm 142 Occs NOT MORE THANExit ONE HALF OF THE REQUIRED
PLOT DATE
2'-3"
2'-6"
5'-11"
12'-7"
6'-6"
MAIN STREET
CODE NOTES 1.
EXIT WIDTHS DIMENSIONED ON CODE PLAN REPRESENTS THE NET CLEAR WIDTH OF THE OPENING; ACTUAL DOOR SIZES ARE LISTED ON INTERIOR DESIGN DOOR SCHEDULE.
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MINIMUM NET CLEAR WIDTH FOR DOORS MUST BE 800mm MIN. TO MEET BARRIER-FREE REQUIREMENTS.
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PINCHPOINTS ARE CIRCLED ON THE PLAN TO SHOW THE NARROWEST POINT, OR EXIT CAPACITY, OF THAT DIRECTION'S SYSTEM.
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AS PER VBBL 3.4.3.2.(7)., EVERY EXIT SHALL BE CONSIDERED AS CONTRIBUTING NOT MORE THAN ONE HALF OF THE REQUIRED EXIT WIDTH.
PJM
RV
PROJECT NO.
THIS DRAWING MUST NOT BE SCALED. THE CONTRACTOR IS TO As Noted VERIFY ALL DRAWING DIMENSIONS AND DATA NOTED HEREIN WITH CONDITIONS ON THE SITE AND IS HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR 16146 REPORTING DISCREPANCIES TO MALLEN GOWING BERZINS ARCHITECTURE INCORPORATED. THIS DRAWING IS NOT TO BE As Noted USED FOR CONSTRUCTION PURPOSES UNTIL SIGNED BY THE
DRAWING NO.
1
KG
DR
DRAWINGS AND SPECIFICATIONS, AS INSTRUMENTS OF SERVICE, ARE THE PROPERTY OF MALLEN GOWING BERZINS ARCHITECTURE INCORPORATED, THE COPYRIGHT IN THE SAME BEING RESERVED TO THEM. NO REPRODUCTION IS ALLOWED WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF MALLEN GOWING BERZINS ARCHITECTURE INCORPORATED AND WHEN MADE MUST BEAR ITS NAME. ALL PRINTS TO BE RETURNED.
SCALE
29'-9"
*SEE CODE NOTES BELOW
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2016.12.07 CLIENT REVIEW
DATE DESCRIPTION Occupant Load Calculations
Capacity
. LR C . m s. @ C 0m cc OC 87 42 o m/ 1 .1m 6
3.
Main Street Barber & Co.
2'-3"
WIDTHVancouver OF THE OPENING; ACTUAL DOOR SIZES ARE LISTED ON INTERIOR Building By-Law 2014 [3.4.3.2.(1a)] DESIGN DOOR SCHEDULE.
PJM
RV
THIS DRAWING MUST NOT BE SCALED. THE CONTRACTOR IS TO VERIFY ALL DRAWING DIMENSIONS AND DATA NOTED HEREIN WITH CONDITIONS ON THE SITE AND IS HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR REPORTING DISCREPANCIES TO MALLEN GOWING BERZINS ARCHITECTURE INCORPORATED. THIS DRAWING IS NOT TO BE USED FOR CONSTRUCTION PURPOSES UNTIL SIGNED BY THE CONSULTANT.
GROUND FLOOR OLC Scale: 3/8" = 1'-0"
KG
DR
PROJECT:
MAIN STREET
1m x 1m CLR.
2'-6"
Required: Provided:
6'-6"
29'-9"
sexes are permitted to be served by a single water closet if the occupant load in an *SEE CODEBoth NOTES BELOW occupancy referred to in Sentence (6), (10), (12), (13), (14) or (16) is not more than 25.
CODE NOTES EXIT CAPACITY CALCULATIONS 1. EXIT WIDTHS DIMENSIONED ON CODE PLAN REPRESENTS THE NET CLEAR
DESCRIPTION
DRAWINGS AND SPECIFICATIONS, AS INSTRUMENTS OF SERVICE, ARE THE PROPERTY OF MALLEN GOWING BERZINS ARCHITECTURE INCORPORATED, THE COPYRIGHT IN THE SAME BEING RESERVED TO THEM. NO REPRODUCTION IS ALLOWED WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF MALLEN GOWING BERZINS ARCHITECTURE INCORPORATED AND WHEN MADE MUST BEAR ITS NAME. ALL PRINTS TO BE RETURNED.
REVISION
CONSULTANT.
OLC-01
NORTH
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PROJECT:
GROUND FLOOR OLC
Main Street Barber & Co.
Scale: 3/8" = 1'-0"
2808 Main Street Vancouver, B.C.
SHEET TITLE:
Occupant Load Calculations PLOT DATE
PROJECT NO.
As Noted SCALE
16146
As Noted DRAWING NO.
NORTH
OLC-01
REVISION
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761
891
764
915
PREFINISHED 1" DIA. RAILING, SIMILAR TO RAILINGS AT RESIDENTIAL BALCONIES ABOVE (SEE SHEET A-05) - COLOR TO MATCH EXISTING METAL ACCENT FINISH
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WEST ELEVATION
A-04
Holy Crab Patio
A-03
ELEVATION
3/16" = 1'-0"
November 22, 2016 C D
1588 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC
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916
1
UP 3R
HAND SINK
2460
1848
UPRIGHT FREEZER CUSTOM FISH TANK
UPRIGHT FRIDGE
PREP SINK
OFFICE
18
MIN. CLR. TYP.
1843
127 MIN. CLR. TYP.
PROPOSED PATIO
3'0 DOOR
36.95 sq.m. 18 SEATS
EXISTING PLANTER
1100
776
EXISTING PLANTER
LR .
. LR .C MIN mm 00
.C IN M
19022
A-04
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24
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LR .
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2040mm PROV. CLR.
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PROPOSED PATIO RAILING, STEPPED TO ACCOUNT FOR SLOPED SIDEWALK
m
1800
1 A-04
ACCESS DOOR FOR STAFF
MIN. CLR.
MIN. SIDEWALK CLR.
6587
914
3'0 DOOR
1100
PREP TABLE
MIN. CLR. TYP.
76 127
OYSTER DISPLAY
2893
1 EXISTING TREE TO REMAIN
EXISTING STREETLIGHT TO REMAIN
A-03
EXISTING TREE TO REMAIN EXISTING LANDSCAPING TO REMAIN
EXISTING TREE TO REMAIN
CARDERO ST
Holy Crab Patio 1588 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC
A-02 3/16" = 1'-0"
PATIO PLAN November 22, 2016
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