DANIELS SPECTRUM REGENT PARK, TORONTO
east elevation and new plaza on Regent Park Boulevard
community connections Regent Park and Community Gardens
Future Building
Daniels Spectrum REGENT PARK BLVD
Paintbox
DUNDAS STREET EAST
SACKVILLE STREET
The story of Regent Park is one of re-connecting, reactivating and re-knitting an urban fabric to re-build the community and urban space. Daniels Spectrum is a particularly vivid illustration of that story. By creating a community hub and connecting people through the arts, this facility is surpassing project goals to bring transformative social and cultural change to the new Regent Park.
Future Building
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sustainability Annual Energy Consumption (including heating/
1,492,108 kWh
cooling provided by the distinct energy system)
Energy Intensity Energy Use Reduction Energy Cost reduction Annual Potable Water Consumption
274 ekWh/m2 35% 38% 3.9m3/person/year 1,766,791 liters/year
Water Use Reduction Irrigation Reduction Percentage of Recycled Material Content Regional Content Construction Waste Diversion
46% 100% 24% by cost 31% 88%
The vision for Regent Park is to revitalize a neighbourhood that was not thriving. The intent is to double the density of occupants while not increasing the environmental footprint. This development supports that goal. Daniels Spectrum has achieved LEED Silver and the Paintbox Condominium LEED Gold certification through the Canada Green Building Council’s LEED for New Construction Rating System. By using the LEED framework, Daniels Spectrum incorporated green design strategies such as reducing local heat island effect by covering more than 60-percent of the roof in vegetation, providing bicycle racks and showers to promote cycling, providing a car-share program, specifying high insulation values and low-e coatings, heat recovery systems and CO2 sensors.
Paintbox Bistro: a social enterprise initiative, training community members in the culinary arts
The Paintbox Bistro located on the ground floor of the condominium is a community initiative, employing and training community members in the culinary arts. Affiliated with the George Brown Chef School, Paintbox Bistro also operates a catering kitchen that services the Ada Slaight Hall event space, and runs the Paintbox CafĂŠ in the lobby. Fresh produce grown in the Regent Park community garden is used in the catering operation.
RPACC COLOUR PALETTE BENJAMIN MOORE Artscape Regent Park Arts and Cultural Centre
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Developed by Gottschalk+Ash International
Phase 1.1
April 8th, 2010
Final Draft
RPACC COLOUR PALETTE BENJAMIN MOORE Developed by Gottschalk+Ash International
Phase 1.1
Final Draft
April 8th, 2010
Artscape Regent Park Arts and Cultural Centre
RPACC COLOUR PALETTE BENJAMIN MOORE Developed by Gottschalk+Ash International
Phase 1.1
Final Draft
Paintbox CafĂŠ and Artscape lounge/lobby
creative community representation The building design is inspired by the cultural richness of the Regent Park community. The vivid colour pattern on the exterior of the building is distilled from the colours of the flags of the world and identifies the building as a space for creative endeavor. This colour play informed all aspects of design including exterior cladding, interior signage, visual markers that connect interior spaces and branding for the facility.
April 8th, 2010
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the Paintbox Cafe in the Artscape lounge/lobby is serviced by the Paintbox Bistro
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ground floor plan: experience
good business Daniels Spectrum brings together seven arts and social enterprise groups chosen for their ability to engage with communities, to encourage artistic creation, to advance learning and offer an inter-cultural experience. The purpose-built spaces enable these groups, most with previous make-do, impermanent locations, to put down roots and develop a following. Extensive consultations with the tenants and community groups optimized the outcome of the building’s configuration. Thematically, each floor of the building represents a different realm of celebration and integration of the arts. The first floor accomodates experience spaces and includes Ada Slaight Hall, a multipurpose 400seat performance and event space, and a large outdoor performance court, as well as three dance studios operated by COBA, Collective of Black Artists and a black box theatre operated by Native Earth Performing Arts.
COBA Dance Studio
The second floor’s theme is learning and focuses on developing talent in music, visual arts and film. Learning studios are operated by ArtHeart Community Art Centre, Pathways to Education, Regent Park Film Festival, and the Regent Park School of Music. The Centre provides a platform for artistic collaboration and social integration. The third floor supports innovation where the Centre for Social Innovation provides a network for exchange and dialogue for 60 emerging and established non-profit / social and art entrepreneurs.
Pathways to Education
north-south section A-A 1. Ada Slaight Hall 2. Artscape Lounge/Lobby 3. Aki Studio Theatre for Native Earth Performing Arts 4. Gallery/Interior Street 5. Regent Park School of Music 6. Centre for Social Innovation 7. Green Roof 8. MDC Partners Courtyard 9. Parking
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The potential for the centre’s program to foster creative output of this community has resulted in an outpouring of corporate and individual donations such that fundraising targets were met and funds for tenant sustainability have been established. Daniels Spectrum is built upon a social enterprise model. Revenues generated from corporate venue rentals of Ada Slaight Hall, MDC Partners Courtyard and the Artscape Lounge support the facility’s cultural programming and services. In the first full year of operation, Daniels Spectrum welcomed over 50,000 visitors and hosted over 300 events.
Ada Slaight Hall is a fully equipped, flexible performance/event space
legacy As Canada’s largest and oldest public housing project evolves into mixed-use and market and rent-geared housing, Daniels Spectrum becomes a new central hub, not only for the immediate community but also for the city as a whole. It will serve to break down misconceptions about a neighbourhood in transition and introduce people to the area, many for the first time.
a wide interior street provides space for social interaction and art display
Dundas Street West