WASTE STREAMS
B.Arch Cal Poly, 2024
Lydia Rosenthal Studio CliffordSomething Mysterious
Strange phenomena in downtown Toronto
Garrison Creek / Sewer
Transformation of a natural system under pressures of urban growth
Garrison Creek (pre-1884)
Flack, Derek. “The Garrison Creek Discovery Walk.” blogTO, blogTO, 25 Nov. 2010.
Garrison Creek Sewer (1915)
Flack, Derek. “The Garrison Creek Discovery Walk.” blogTO, blogTO, 25 Nov. 2010.
Toronto’s Waterways
Degradation and Mechanization of Watersheds
Great Lakes Waterways
Artificiality and exploitation
at the regional level
GreatLakes Waterway FurTradingRoute
Welland Canal, Niagara Peninsula
Kevin Vallier. “Welland Canal Was a Game Changer.” The Niagara Independent, 24 Oct. 2019.
Soo Locks, Sault Ste. Marie
“Soo Locks.” Trips Into History, 9 Oct. 2022.
“As threats accelerate, preserving wetlands will require new technologies and adaptive management strategies.... These hybrid landscapes are compelling models for how to synchronize biological and infrastructural systems.”
Cynthia Hooper (The Land Where Birds Are Grown)
“An environmental philosophy without nature would thus find its normative foundation in an appeal to selfknowledge and self-recognition, not in an impossible return to a nature beyond or before human practice.”
Steven Vogel (Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature)
Welland Canal, Niagara Peninsula
Kevin Vallier. “Welland Canal Was a Game Changer.” The Niagara Independent, 24 Oct. 2019.
Soo Locks, Sault Ste. Marie
“Soo Locks.” Trips Into History, 9 Oct. 2022.
New Objectivity
An unromantic engagement with the world as it is
Embracing the intersection of infrastructure and nature is an opportunity to be honest about our relationship with the world.
Architecture that reveals the impact of our actions will help us make more thoughtful decisions in the future.
6 Sewer Stations
a. Treat Sewer Water to Revitalize Habitats
b. Ensure Public Access to Infrastructure
c. Reveal Garrison Sewer’s History
Tapping
Humber River Wastewater Treatment Plant, Toronto
“Photo of the Day: Humber Treatment Plant.” Urban Toronto. Accessed 31 May 2024.
Garrison Creek Sewer
“Garrison Creek Storm Relief Sewer.” ToHellandBack Photography. Accessed 31 May 2024.
Gasworks Park, Seattle
Oberklaid, Sarah. “Fridaygram: Gas Works Park.” The Urbanist. Accessed 1 June 2024.
Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, Germany Arnold, Roswitha. “Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord.” KuLaDig. Accessed 1 June 2024.
Form Finding
Cycling between iterative sketching and rough modelling
Conceptual Section
Exposing Sewer to City, Rooted in Ground, Massive vs. Light
Found Objects Model Symbolic Form, Nested Geometry, Projecting Outwards
Bathroom (Closed)
Dog Park
Treatment Station
Geometrical studies give rise to a complex, idosyncratic plan
People’s Program
Lightly defined program spaces as extension of public park
Public Restroom
Sewer Viewing
Ampitheater
Water’s Program
Arrangement of Living Machine components at massive scale
4. Constructed Wetlands
1. Settlement Tank
2. Equalization Tanks
3. Anoxic Tanks
5. Aerated lagoons
Entanglement
People and infrastructure
crossing paths
A Complex Complex
The station provides a diversity of spaces and experiences
Beacon in the City
Intertwining People + Infrastructure
Renewed Watershed
