Kitchener Community Centre; Oluwatobiloba Babalola

PROJECT BRIEF

This project offers the opportunity to envision and design a community center that serves as a link between multiple cultures.

It is up to us to keep building bridges to bring the world closer together, and not destroy them to divide us further apart.

There is a Zulu (African) proverb called Ubuntu that says: “I am a person through other people. My humanity is tied to yours.

Project Location:

Chose to maintain the external geometry of the existing building on the project site and lay more emphasis on the conecting bridge.

The Launch of GRT’s Light Trail Transit system shifts the center of transit in waterloo region, ending operations of the charles street bus terminal. The Victoria park ION station is located 130 metres from the terminal.

WATER RETENTION POND

Also called retention pond, are designed to control storm water runoff on the project site, this functions by capturing, storing, treating and slowly releasing stormwater downstream or allowing infiltration into the ground.

BIOSWALES

These are densely vegetated open channels designed to attenuate and treat storm water runoff, The drainage ways have gentle slopes to allow runoff to be filtered by vegetation planted on the bottomand sides of the swale.

PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS

The 300 Solar Panels on the building and the car port produces 180kw of solar energy, At Kitchener’s latitude there is very little solar potential in the winter months due to short days and low sun angles.

So in the summer months, the system over produces and the surplus energy is stored in Kitchener’s electricity grid (used in the neighbourhood ).

300 watt panel receiving 8 hours of sunlight per day will produce almost 2.5 kilowatt-hours per day. In a year, we get a solar output of about 900 kilowatt-hours annually. In short, each panel will provide 900 kilowatt-hours each year.

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