MACY LAPORTE | ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2009-2014
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MACY LAPORTE
EDUCATION CARLETON UNIVERSITY
2010-2014
Bachelor of Architectural Studies Major in Design CGPA 10.27
CONTACT mlaporte20@gmail.com +1 (613) 986 - 4688
ACHIEVEMENTS 2014 h Building 22 Publication, Ed. 14 Bower Carty Bursary Teron Scholarship Nominee Stantec Award Nominee
CARLETON UNIVERSITY
2009-2010
History & Theory of Architecture CGPA 9.40
PROFESSIONAL JUNIOR DESIGNER COLE+Associates Architects Inc.
2014-Present
Ottawa, Ontario • concept, graphic and marketing designs • 3D modeling and 2D drawings • project studies and report writing • social media management • proposal layout and writing
DESIGNER Proscape Landscaping
ADDRESS 465 Richmond Rd. Ottawa, Ontario K2A 1Z1
2013 Building 22 Publication, Ed. 13 Carleton University Deans List Teron Scholarchip Nominee SFFD Competition Submission 2012 Carleton University Deans List CU Academic Scholarship 2009 CU Entrance Scholarship
TECHNICAL / SKILLS Summer 2014/13
Ottawa, Ontario • front desk and clerical work • hand drafting large format final designs for client • concept sketches for clients • 3D modeling • on-site measurements and design review • cost analysis
EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN Sept - April 2013/12/11 Azrieli School of Architecture, AV Section Ottawa, Ontario • administered student equipment rentals • managed fees and collected late fines • created inventory lists • catalogued and monitored audio/visual equipment
Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Revit Rhinoceros
AutoCAD SketchUp MicrosoftSuite Hand Drawing Model Making
INTERESTS / HOBBIES Art Architecture Athletics Animals Cinema
Dance Music Photography Poetry Travel
TRAVEL CANADA TORONTO OTTAWA MONTREAL PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND EDMONTON UNITED STATES NEW YORK CITY VERMONT HAWAII NORTH AMERICA JAMAICA CAYMAN ISLANDS GULF OF MEXICO TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS EUROPE ITALY PARIS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TERRA TALUS
Housing Development
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SYDNEY SQUARE Urban Development
C|3
F/STOP
CU Film Institute
HONEYCOMB Competition
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CURRENTS
Directed Studies Abroad
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Workshop
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LOK-ER
Design Build
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PERSONAL WORKS Artwork & Photography
TERRA TALUS housing development / 24,280sm 15 oblate avenue / 175 main street fourth year studio / 2014
TERRA TALUS PUBLIC PARK view to mid-rise condominiums
Terra Talus aims to rethink and question typical housing typologies by creating a more thorough connection with the ground plane. It addresses the growing population of an established Ottawa neighborhood by transforming six acres of open institutional land into a residential community development. Its urban plan dismisses the tower design, and consists of multiple housing units, pedestrian streets and paths, parks and courtyards, and a grand plaza facing a large, heritage building. Back-to-back townhouses sit adjacent to existing single family homes and create
a type of buffer to the dense mid-rise condominiums at the centre of the development, creating a gradient of density. Strong sight-lines create paths and set the boundaries for the dwellings, while connecting public spaces and creating pedestrian friendly circulation. The design sets out to retrieve public space as a significant social activity and means of community. The master urban design plan was developed in a group setting. After a design was formed, housing typologies were separately developed.
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program massing
heritage view + pedestrian street
building shapes defined
site design
COMMERCIAL COURT view to heritage building 02 | macy laporte
AERIAL SITE VIEW public spaces and housing
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sunken plaza
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commercial + residential
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commercial court
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mid-rise residential
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TERRA TALUS PUBLIC PARK view to heritage building
HOUSING AND SITE SECTION mid-rise condominiums and back-to-back townhomes
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TYPICAL TOWN HOUSE UNIT upper street
SOUTH EAST ELEVATION upper street portfolio | 05
third level
second level
second level
main level upper street
main level springhurst avenue
basement
3 bedroom townhouse 3000sf 2 bedroom +1 townhouse 2000sf basement
underground garage
BACK-TO-BACK TOWNHOME PLAN
TYPICAL TOWN HOUSE UNIT springhurst avenue 06 | macy laporte
SYDNEY SQUARE urban development / 26,400sm 490 preseton street / 845-855 carling avenue fourth year studio / 2014
AERIAL VIEW carling avenue and preston street
Sydney Square is an urban design project that integrates a new Train Station, large exterior civic space and public and residential structures into a typical midtown block. Through wide pedestrian circulation paths in the square, two plazas and small gardens, the environment created proposes a welcoming destination and connection to the proposed LRT station. The design of the project allows easy access to and from the downtown core.
This feature allows Sydney Square to become a well integrated social and transportation hub that engages the everyday. A sloped plaza creates an entrance for the train station, the cultural center, and theatre in the center of the block, connecting each program below grade. With the increase in growth of the Little Italy neighborhood, the development of Sydney Square will aid in its urban connectivity.
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OGRAM VOIDSST, NG AVE, AND PRESTON RAIN LINE RUNNING
EDESTRIANS TO NEW SLOW TRAFFIC AND OR STREET PARKING.
EXISTING STREETS EXISTING STREETS
EDGE CONDITIONS EDGE CONDITIONS
STREET EXTENSION + TRENCH COVER STREET EXTENSION + TRENCH COVER
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HIGHWAY HIGHWAY THE BOUNDARY STREETS CONSIST OF CARLING AVE, PRESTON ST, AND ADELINE ST WHICH ENDS AT THE O-TRAIN LINE RUNNING THE BOUNDARY STREETS CONSIST OF CARLING AVE, PRESTON ST, THROUGH THE SITE. AND ADELINE ST WHICH ENDS AT THE O-TRAIN LINE RUNNING THROUGH THE SITE.
EXTENDING ADELINE ST BRIDGES THE GAP OVER THE O-TRAIN. REMOVING SIDNEY ST ALLOWS FOR CIVIC SPACE DEVELOPMENT. EXTENDING ADELINE ST BRIDGES THE GAP OVER THE O-TRAIN. REMOVING SIDNEY ST ALLOWS FOR CIVIC SPACE DEVELOPMENT.
KEEPING RELATIVE HEIGHT TO THE R ALLOWS FOR A COMFORTABLE URBA KEEPING RELATIVE THEHER COMMERCIAL EDGESHEIGHT ALLOWTO FOR ALLOWS FOR A COMFORTABLE SHOWCASE PUBLIC BUILDINGS. URBA COMMERCIAL EDGES ALLOW FOR HE SHOWCASE PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
INNER SQUARE PATH CUTS INNER SQUARE PATH+CUTS STREET EXTENSION TRENCH COVER
BUILDING HEIGHTS BUILDING HEIGHTS EDGE CONDITIONS
SIDNEY SQUARE SIDNEY SQUARE
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HIGHWAY A DIRECT CUT THROUGH THE SITE LEADS PEDESTRIANS TO NEW STATION. A SUB-STREET IS CUT THROUGH TO SLOW TRAFFIC AND A EXTENDING DIRECT CUTADELINE THROUGH SITE LEADS PEDESTRIANS TO NEW CREATE A DROP OFF SPACE, ALSO ALLOWING FOROVER STREET PARKING. ST THE BRIDGES THE GAP THE O-TRAIN. STATION. A SUB-STREET IS CUT FOR THROUGH TO SLOW TRAFFIC AND REMOVING SIDNEY ST ALLOWS CIVIC SPACE DEVELOPMENT. CREATE A DROP OFF SPACE, ALSO ALLOWING FOR STREET PARKING.
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BUILDING HEIGHTS ARE DETERMINED BY PROGRAM AND NEED FOR IDENTIFYING FROM A DISTANCE. BUILDING HEIGHTS ARE DETERMINED BY PROGRAM NEED FOR KEEPING RELATIVE HEIGHT TO THE RESIDENTIAL ANDAND RETAIL EDGES IDENTIFYING A DISTANCE. URBAN SETTING. THE HIGHWAY AND ALLOWS FORFROM A COMFORTABLE COMMERCIAL EDGES ALLOW FOR HEIGHT TO BUFFER TRAFFIC AND SHOWCASE PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
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BUILDING HEIGHTS ARE DETERMINED BY PROGRAM AND NEED FOR IDENTIFYING FROM A DISTANCE.
FINAL STAGE OF SITE WITH NEW BUILDINGS AND CIVIC SPACE. PROPOSED BUILDINGS SEEN ON EDGE STREETS DUE TO DENSIFICATION OF LITTLE ITALY AND URBAN RENEWAL.
FINAL STAGE OF SITE WITH NEW PROPOSED BUILDINGS SEEN ON FINAL STAGE OF SITE WITH DENSIFICATION OF LITTLE ITALY NEW AND U PROPOSED BUILDINGS SEEN ON DENSIFICATION OF LITTLE ITALY AND
CONCEPT SKETCH bridging with landscape 08 | macy laporte
PUBLIC PLAZA view to theatre, community centre and train station
a Bayview Station b Carling Station // Sydney Square c Carleton Station d Confederation Station e Greenboro Station
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PUBLIC PLAZA hardscaping, gardens and fountain
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HONEYCOMB competition / 2nd place prize campus / city CCA inter-university design charrette: fields of knowledge / 2014
HONEYCOMB HUB bus stop outside the nature museum
The Honeycomb proposed project was an answer to a call for submissions of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. The project is imagined as a social service integrated into public infrastructure. By challenging the educational system and branching the campus to the city through transit, a new form of learning is adapted into transportation hubs and at major public destinations. The coined term, “USBees”, are used for the transition of information and for public transit. Answering trivia questions correctly grants a free ride and spreads knowledge in a playful method. This enables citizens to input and receive information from
schools, community centers, local and worldwide news. As a method of way-finding and informational display the Honeycomb structure illuminates with news and improves learning in the everyday transit experience. The competition entry was a collaboration of efforts of many parties. Honeycomb won second place in the CCA’s Inter-university Charrette, Fields of Knowledge: Towards a University of the Streets. Video: http://vimeo.com/89273189
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HONEYCOMB SYSTEM tunnel structure A SOCIAL SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE
INTEGRATED
university of ottawa campus rideau centre mackenzie king bridge confederation park / national arts centre nature museum carleton university campus ottawa train station billings bridge
museum of civilization
algonquin college campus
national art gallery
airport
canal locks arboretum war museum bronson mcdonalds raw sugar - chinatown hintonburger
KNOWLEDGE IN TRANSIT bus routes and transit stops
mobile collective community hubs
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C|3 directed studies abroad / 20,000sm lyon, france / place nautique third year studio / 2013
C|3 MAIN ENTRANCE public plaza and front steps
C|3 was carried out through a Directed Studies Abroad project held in Lyon, France. The project, located at the head of a large basin in the Lyon Confluence district, is imagined as the new gateway of the basin. The Confluence Community Centre [C|3] completes the key component of the Lyon Confluence project master plan. This plan was made to transform a vast stretch of industrial land at the confluence of the Soan and Roane Rivers into a livable mixed-use district.
low to the street to extend the public space into the building. The large wooden louvre system constructed above acts as an urban signifier as well as a protective wall system for the soccer field on the rooftop. The three main programs of the building are denoted with architectural language; the library as a white box, the outdoor recreation space as the wooden louvres and the kayak club as the dock. It is a proposal that integrates itself into the rich diverse context of Lyon as a means to improve the community as a whole.
The physical form of architecture is derived from the site’s significance amongst its greater context. Through extensive site analysis the project took shape within the basin level of the water and remained relatively portfolio | 13
LYON CONFLUENCE aerial of basin 14 | macy laporte
rooftop level
upper level
lobby restaurant cafe pysical activity facilities boat club facility library rooftop level
upper level road level
PHYSICAL RECREATION weight room dance studio yoga studio
PHYSICAL RECREATION gymnasium LOBBY road entrance
basin level
BASIN LEVEL
BOAT CLUB kayak rentals kayak repair
resta
pysic boat
LOBBY entrance
lobby
RESTAURANT cafe patio road level
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LIBRARY library stacks
librar
SECTION PERSPECTIVE skeletal building structure
PHYSICAL RECREATION soccer field gardens LIBRARY library reading lounge
upper level
ROOF TOP LEVEL
upper level
rooftop level
rooftop level
ROOF lobby
lobby
pysical activity facilities
pysical activity facilities
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restaurant cafe
CURRENTS crossings workshop / office installation HUB Ottawa / 71 bank street workshop / 2014
CEILING VIEW OF INSTALLATION hub ottawa office
The design of the installation project was conducted in an undergraduate workshop. The design came from studies of fractals, classical music, and course readings pertaining to the same material. The workshop group explored the nature of Russian plywood; how it bends, flexes, curves and the limitations of its usage. Each exploration created new dialogue through light and shadow, the method in designing the strands. The group composed a single unit from two strips of plywood. By adding units, mirroring the succession,
and bending two units together, larger groups and patterns were made, much like notes in music. Through the repetition of one unit, and an extension of a pattern, the project was able to form various shapes that created a network of nodes. The final was constructed in the Hub Ottawa office with gold mesh, folded into a herringbone pattern, inlaid as focal points to create a visual symphony of light and shadow amongst the network of twisting plywood strips.
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ASSEMBLY workshop in building 22 18 | macy laporte
F/STOP film institute / 18,500sm little bridge street / almonte, ottawa third year studio / 2012
VIEW FROM CN RAIL card model
The design for a film institute came about after researching faculties at Carleton University. The lack of film study space showed a prominence, therefore, the site adjacent the Almonte Old Town Hall on Little Bridge Street proposed an opportunity for a public theatre to include film studios, student residence and galleries to showcase local films. Inspiration from traditional black and white film is a prominent feature at the CU Film Institute; it is composed of transitions between light and dark spaces creating a physical experience for the guest. It is situated perpendicular the abandoned CN Rail allowing public access and engagement with the site. The interior of the Institute
is designed with high void spaces that create visual cues to the multiple levels of the building, sparking curiosity to what lies in the next space. As in film and the act of movie making there is a “behind the scenes� aspect. This is incorporated in the design of the institute as private spaces are tucked along the CN Rail edge. The mass of the building highlights the film theatre depicted as a large black form protruding over the site. It cuts the building diagonally creating space for supporting program and allowing the student residences to sit above.
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carleton university residential space
film institute studio space
public theatre and film institute cinemas
AERIAL OF SITE almonte - film institute 20 | macy laporte
FILM INSTITUTE FROM CN RAIL massing and material study
SOUTH EAST SECTION theatre - library - classrooms portfolio | 21
NORTH WEST SECTION theatre - library - gallery - studio 22 | macy laporte
LOK-ER design-build / 2’ 11” X 2’ 6” X 2’ 6-3/4” undergraduate studio / building 22 third year studio / 2012
LOK-ER UNIT collaborative use
The design-build group project questioned the needs of an architecture student in a studio. The group analyzed existing storage lockers and drafting tables in the search of a better studio life. The Loker unit is a composition of existing studio furniture. By dismantling dated drafting tables and “hacking” found materials, a new studio table equipped with a secure storage space, shelving, drawer, paper holder, cutting board, working surface and light table was
formed into a compact and mobile system. Built to accommodate work while standing or sitting, the Loker has easy accessible compartments and adequate storage. It can also incorporate a milk crate, a typical studio element among students. The Lok-er gives students a mobile work space that can be manipulated in a studio setting for collaborative and individual work. Student’s are free to move units and situate their work area anywhere within the studio.
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3/8" CLEAR PLEXIGLASS
3/8 " WHITE PLEXIGLASS 1/2" PLYWOOD
1/2" STEEL ROD
KEY PLAN SCALE 1:200
2" RECTANGULAR STEEL TUBING (FROM EXISTING DRAFTING TABLE) 3" STEEL HINGE STEEL CLASP LOCK
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GROUP MEMBERS CRISTINA RENALLI DYLAN JOHNSTON ADRIEL YU YANNICK CHOQUET ALEX CHAN MACY LAPORTE
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1/8" STEEL BRACKET (FROM EXISTING DRAFTING TABLE)
PERSONAL TABLE
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ARCHITECTURE BUILDING, CARLETON UNIVERSITY OTTAWA, ON K1S 5B7
2" RECTANGULAR STEEL TUBING (FROM EXISTING DRAFTING TABLE) 1/4" CARRIAGE BOLT W/ NUT
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STUDENT INVENTORY studio materials and personal belongings 24 | macy laporte
PERSONAL WORKS selected works of art and photography 2009-2015
THE SHORE watercolour on paper
WITH THE WIND chemogram portfolio | 25
TEMPTATION acrylic on canvas
ROBIN watercolour on paper 26 | macy laporte
ROYAL SALTWORKS Arc-Et-Senans, France
SPANISH STEPS AT SUNDOWN Rome, Italy portfolio | 27
ON THE HILLTOP Évreux, France
WATERS EDGE Curacao, North America 28 | macy laporte
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