Lucas Crichton - Architectural Design Portfolio (F2021) by Lucas_Crichton

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LucasCrichton

Profile: The following work displayed in this portfolio represents the foundation of my architectural abilities. Each project highlights different aspects of my design process along with the tools and technologies utilized to develop each experience. The projects included demonstrates the variety of building typologies that I have worked on individually and as part of a professional team. With a background in concept design, my professional role as an architectural designer is best summarized through the work that follows. I, Lucas Crichton, hereby certify that the work submitted in this portfolio is entirely of my own hand, or, where produced in collaboration with others, has been clearly identified as such.

Hearth House Ver.1

Village of Yorkville Park

747 Arkell Rd. Guelph ON, CA

135 Cumberland St. Toronto ON, CA

Academic (Individual) Project Entirety

Educational Development 2020

Ryerson University - Year 4 2017

The Freedom of Confinement

Backyard Utility Shed

Mid-Rise Afortable Housing

Rivers of Life Fellowship Church

Castello di Santa Caterina Isola di Favignana, ITALY

10 Robbins Ridge Paris ON, CA

316 West St. Brantford ON, CA

9111 Keele St. Concord ON, CA

Academic (Individual) Project Entirety

Professional Concept & Design Development

Professional Concept & Interior Finishes

Ryerson University - Year 4 2017

Educational Development 2021

Reinders + Law Architects 2021

Reinders + Law Architects 2018 - 2021

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Guelph ON, CA • Academic (Individual) • Educational Development • 2020

Hearth House 747 Arkell Road

An adventure through the landscape; a tiered experienced in which one approaches, navigates, and orients themselves in the romantic built form. This housing project demonstrates a Canadian cottage-like experience as it guides the user through a hierarchy of spaces, each referencing back to the landscape through the senses. Each section of the design engage the user with different aspects of the site; whether it be the separation of public from private or the interaction between build form and natural relationships. The sole of this project is truly about romanticizing natural relationships, focusing on the natural power of the hearth while growing outwards into nature itself.

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Rear Entry Perspective Front Entry Perspective Conceptual Site Plan Site Axonometric 01 Site Access Point 02 Garage

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Front Entry Living Room Kitchen / Dining Rear Porch Bedroom Wing

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Public / Private Located on an abandoned farm field, this project builds upon the existing site circulation while maintaining the site’s natural views and characteristics. The project’s entry is set back from the site’s gravel access point - behind the garage - in order to separate the public realm from private views. The street facing elevation is designed to be visually subtle within the landscape, while the rear elevation is designed to be a back drop to the social events taking place.

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Garage Front Entry Living Room Kitchen / Dining Rear Patio / Outdoor Dining Laundry Secondary Bedrooms Master Wing Loft / Office Basement Swimming Pool

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Site Access Perspective & Parti Main Level Floor Plan Conceptual Building Section 4300.00

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Home is Where the Hearth is. Located at the focal center of the interior space is the home’s hearth. Designed to be the main backdrop for social gatherings, the hearth features a double sided - multi level - open fireplace. The idea behind this design is to allow for an indoor / outdoor experience surrounding the hearth while housing multiple social program elements and structure for the upper loft. 8 | Portfolio

a Hearth Spacial Relations 01 Outdoor Fireplace 02 Outdoor Seating 03 Basement 04 Indoor Fireplace

b North Elevation (Mirrored) c Living Space Section 05 Living Room 06 Kitchen / Dining 07 Loft / Office

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d Wall Section 08 Parapet Cap 09 Stone Veneer Finish 10 240mm Roof Joist 11 4x 292mm Beam

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Operable Window 140mm Wall Framing Roof Drain Scupper Rain Chain Downspout

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Dining Perspective Hearth Perspective

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Toronto ON, CA • Academic (Individual) • Project Entirety • 4th Yr. (Fall Semester) 2017

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Centered at the heart of Toronto’s subway system, the Bay Street Station sits beneath this diverse park that was based on the geography of Canada. Lying beneath the Bay Subway Station is Lower Bay, a trial station used briefly before becoming abandoned. The intent of this project was to strategically introduce a community centre beneath the park, without interfering with its prior design. The centre utilizes the space surrounding the existing subway line while taking advantage of the old abandoned space below.

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Above Grade: Bodega & Bay Nested above the existing east entrance of the Bay Subway Station, the Bodega & Bay pavilion expands the existing thoroughfare into an above grade market space. The placement of this project carefully sits above the existing building while firmly embedding itself into the rock formation designed from the original park geographical concept. Combining a mixture of open spaces and permanent stalls for vendors along side a open concept kitchen and classroom, this small pavilion aims to provide spaces for learning with local street vendors. 12 | Portfolio

a Conceptual Parti b Ground Floor Plan 01 Subway Entrance 02 Mechanical Rm. 03 Public Washrooms 04 Permanent Vendors 05 Rock Formation

c Second Floor Plan 06 Gallery 07 Kitchen 08 Formation Patio

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Below Grade: Yorkville Community Centre d Fares Concourse 09 Existing Fares 10 Upper Library 11 Upper Market e Upper Bay Platform 12 Bay Subway Station 13 Lower Library

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Running Track Upper Fitness Gym f Lower Bay Platform 16 Bay Subway Station 17 Gymnasium 18 Running Track 19 Lower Fitness Gym

As above, so below. The idea of integrating the community centre within the original site context without disturbing the existing program or aesthetic help is the conceptual success of this design. The project utilizes the lower abandoned subway line as an indoor market while expanding below the park, allowing the sport and recreation centre. Building upwards, the design wraps around the in-use line to create a slender, yet usable space for a library and other market shops. The idea of utilizing existing infrastructure will better the future of our cities.

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Sectional Spacial Relationships Solving the long a narrow design issue originates from MVRDV’s design of Markthal in Rotterdam. The idea was to create multiple interlacing spaces that could be viewed or engaged with from another type of program in the centre. The spatial programmatic relationships are key when layering one over

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a Precedent | Markthal • MVRDV b Section | Pool & Running Track c Section | Gym & Library d Section | Spactial Relationships 01 Library Perspective 02 Gymnasium Perspective 03 Running Track & Pool Perspective 04 Fitness Gym Perspective

another in a tight but physically pleasing way. Due to the width restrictions of the site, linking program through a section became the only solution to developing proportional spaces that allows for users to engage with the full length of a specific building program, instead of the length of the project itself.

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Favignana, Italy • Academic (Individual) • Project Entirety • 4th Yr. (Winter Semester) 2018

The Freedom of Confinement Located just off the coast of Sicily, the 2018 Young Architects Competition, Art Prison, is based on restoring Castello di Santa Caterina into an artistic retreat. This ninth century fortress acts as the perfect picturesque backdrop to display artwork along side workshops, classrooms, and hotel/ studio spaces. The concept of blurring the lines between freedom and confinement allows for this project to be adaptive within the constraints. It allows for the artistic sense of exploring the freedom within a separation from

civilization. Moreover, a freedom of movement while periodically being restrained within certain moments of the landscape. Overall, this project recognizes that the natural picturesque harnesses the ability to be free while also ironically providing a dramatic location for a place of both seclusion and confinement. Internally to externally, this project uses light, colour, and spacial elements to distinctively determine the boundaries of freedom within an existing space. Understanding project boundaries allows one to push them with creative design elements.

a YAC: Art Prison Competition - Poster Submission b Colour Theory: Freedom Through Colour 01 Sacred Spaces by Subtractive Colour 02 Neautral Spaces as a Mixture 03 Profane Spaces by Additive Colour c Spacial Parti: Freedom within the Confined

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The Art Educational Centre |

Freedom Through Detailing

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a The idea for this centre was to build off of the existing caretakers house in a way that minimally impacted the occupants view of the landscape. Thus, I developed a custom bi-folding hinge to allow for the Indoor Gallery’s Glazing Joints to become seamless and less visually intrusive. 18 | Portfolio

a Education Centre Plan 01 Cafe 02 Classroom 03 Indoor Gallery 04 Outdoor Gallery

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Seamless Bi-fold | Closed Seamless Bi-fold | Open Sectional Axonometric Bi-fold Seamless Hinge Plan Hinge Gasket Assembly

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Desiccant/Spacer Seal Hinge Pin Aluminum Hinge Rail Car

d Exterior Glazing Assembly Components 01 - Steel Roofing System 02 - Aluminum Parapet 03 - Aluminum Upstand 04 - Rigid Insulation 05 - Z-Girt 06 - Upper Rail 07 - Upper Wide Flange 08 - Roof Construction 09 - Roof Structure

10 - HSS Column 11 - Inner Glazed Panel 12 - Hinge Pin 13 - IGU Module 14 - Flooring Construction 15 - Flooring Structure 16 - Lower Wide Flange 17 - Rigid Insulation 18 - Hat Channel 19 - Aluminum Cladding 20 - Lower Rail

Paris ON, CA • Professional (Individual) • Project Entirety • 2021

BUILDING HEIGHT T/ RIDGE (+4.25)

RAFTER HEIGHT T/ PLATE (+2.84)

FINISHED FLOOR T/ SLAB (+0.00)

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SCALE - 1:25

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Utility Shed | 10 Robbins Ridge

T/ RIDGE (+4.25)

RAFTER HEIGHT T/ PLATE (+2.84)

BUILDING HEIGHT T/ RIDGE (+4.25)

Located within a suburban backyard, the client for this project wanted a simple yet architecturally pleasing utility shed for tools and machinery. While small in scale, the level of detailing for this project goes above and beyond the level required for a project this size. The goal for this project was to simply practice my graphical and detail skills while simultaneously developing my own personal graphical elements. These graphical elements consist of line weights, scales, dimensions, and other graphic standards in order to keep my drawings organized and harmonious.

RAFTER HEIGHT T/ PLATE (+2.84)

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STUDIOS

(519) 362-3575 L_Crichton.Arch@gmail.com

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21-001 HOSSZU UTILITY SHED

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10 ROBBINS RIDGE PARIS, ON

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Southern Ontario, CA • Professional (Team) • Project Concept & Development • 2020 - 2021

Residential

| Reinders + Law Architects Ltd. As southern Ontario continues to diversify, housing developments have taken to new heights, shapes, and styles in order to better our cities. Low income housing is an additional key contributor towards the growth of communities. From stacked townhouses to high rises, developing concepts for a variety of housing types meant understanding numeric breakdowns as part of the design process. This meant determining proper site guidelines while simultaneously developing building program, unit layouts, and parking counts. Ensuring that all building elements work together when moving on to the design development phase.

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Mid Rise Apartments

| 316 West St. Brantford, ON

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5.2 Stacked Townhouse

| 46 MillCreek Rd. Cambridge, ON

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5.3 High Rise Condominium | 10 College St. Kitchener, ON

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Stacked Townhouse Front Entry Stacked Townhouse Rear Entry High Rise Pedestrian Entry High Rise Residiential Tower

Concord ON, CA • Professional (Team) • Conept & Finishes • 2018 - 2021

Rivers of Life

| Reinders + Law Architects Ltd.

Situated on a narrow, gradually sloping site, this Egyptian Fellowship church is designed to follow the narrative of a flowing River. Using geometries, Material, and colour, the user is guided towards the entry and then drawn inward to experience the spiritual enlightenment that the interior provides. The church has been designed in two phases, thus allowing for growth within the church while adhering to budgetary constraints during start up. This meant that the design of phase two had to seamlessly integrate within the flow and program designed in phase one. The result is a beautiful church that allows the people of the Concord community to come together and celebrate the gift of life.

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Concept to Construction

PH. 2 - Offices & Gymnasium PH. 2 - Classroom Expansion PH. 2 - Atrium Expansion

While this project - like any other - is a team success, it highlights the key elements of my architectural design position at Reinders + Law. Starting with the general concept and selling the idea to the client through plans, sections, & renderings. My role was to visually entice the client to become emotionally invested in their project. As one of the firm’s architectural designers, one of my role on this project was to develop the interior finishes board while displaying the final product as a visual walk-through; this can be viewed via the QR code Above.

PH. 1 - Sanctuary & Kid’s Zone

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Phasing Parti Diagram Sectional Perspective - Ph. 1

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Main Level Floor plan - Ph.1 vs Ph.2 Construction Photographs

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