VICTORIA BENNETT SELECTED WORKS
VICTORIA BENNETT victoria.a.bennett@gmail.com Toronto, Ontario, CA 289.264.0667
EDUCATION Sept 2011 - P resent Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University, Canada Bachelor in Architectural Studies, Design
Jan 2014-June 2014 Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Semester 6 completed on International Exchange Student Program
WORK EXPERIENCE June -Aug 2014 Au - Pair, Negrotto Family Pescara, Italy
May - Aug 2013 User Experience Co-op Placement, Kenna Toronto, ON
May - July 2012 Creative Assistant, Kenna Missigauga, ON
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE Sept 2013 - Present 3rd and 4th Year Representative, Azrieli Architecture Student’s Association Ottawa, ON
Sept 2012 - Present VP Social, Parks Canada Outdoors Club of Carleton Ottawa, ON
August 2012 Farm Volunteer, Quennell Lake Livestock Conservancy Nanaimo, BC
Sept 2010-June2011 Founder and Director, Art for the Community Class, Newmarket High School Newmarket, ON
Sept 2010-June2011 Co-Director, Food For Thought, Newmarket High School Newmarket, ON
TECHNICAL SKILLS
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Hand Drafting Model Making Rhino Revit AutoCAD
Organization & Time Managment Teamwork & Collaboration Communication Individually Motivated Leadership
TRAVEL
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Photoshop Illustrator InDesign V-Ray Rendering Google Sketch-up
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACADEMIC WORKS 7
Hyper-Burbia 8 Suburban Densification Masterplan Studio 7, Winter 2015
Main Street Community 12 Comprehensive Housing Project Studio 6, Fall 2014
Sustainable Research Institute 18 Research Facility Project Studio 4, Fall 2013 DIGITAL FABRICATION 25
Magnetic Fields 26 Digital Discourse, Fall 2013
Quingpu Pedestrian Bridge 27 Architectural Technology, Fall 2012
Space Exploration 27 Computer Modelling, Fall 2013 PHOTOGRAPHY 29
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ACADEMIC WORKS
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HYPER-BURBIA Collaborators: Location: Programs: Course: Instructor: Kanata, ON Rhino, V-Ray, Daniel Kassel Studio 7 Giancarlo Mangone Photoshop, Illustrator Michael Damini Winter 2015 Hyper-burbia is a design for a mixed-use community in central Kanata that densifies and redefines the city as an urban hub. This community is built around an LRT transit station, and includes market and low-income housing built on a podium of retail. It includes a variety of office and commercial buildings, a community center, an arts center and a captive breeding center. The community is designed to bring people closer to nature, and develop a sustainably-conscious mindset. The overall design also aims to protect much of the surrounding ecology, maintains wetland, meadow, and forest ecosystems, while still allowing some levels of human interaction with them to provide a basis of ecological education for the surrounding community. 6
Program Diagram
Social Diagram 7
Masterplan
Water Storage and Treatment Diagram 8
Ecological Diagram
The community acts as a barrier between the Carp River ecosystem and the roadways. The roofs of the community include outdoor gardening, greenhouses, solar collection and walking paths that slope cohesively to dictate the height of each individual building.
Living machines in the central courtyard help filter and store storm and grey water. This pours into a storm water retention pond that doubles as a vast skating and hockey rink in the winter. These tanks over the public plaza help quantify the water on site, and bring an awarness of water usage to all surrounding residents.
The LRT station, a central feature above our main courtyard, is enclosed within a water tank of filtered grey water. It cascades into the back of the amphitheater as a backdrop for all performances and projections.
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MAIN STREET COMMUNITY Collaborators: Location: Programs: Course: Instructor: Ottawa, ON Revit, Sketch-Up Carolyn Andrews Studio 6 Benjamin Gianni Photoshop, Illustrator Fall 2014 The overall plan of this community aims to connect the Rideau Canal with the Rideau River along a series of paths and streams that meet in a central plaza. The community incorporates market and low income housing in the form of townhouses and apartments on a podium of retail. The unit types range from bachelor to 4-bedroom, accommodating a wide variety of inhabitants. The buildings are grouped around a series of nodes that range from hard-scaped to soft-scaped, and the overall design strives to give each unit access to green space. Facing onto traditional Main Street zoning, the community incorporates retail and some office space, making it a self-sufficient community, providing many of the services the residents would regularly need. 10
PROXIMITY SCHOOL
COMMUNITY BIKE PATH BANK PARK BUS STOP MARKET
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View from Oblate Street
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Aerial View fron Oblate Street
Aerial View from Main Street
This view from the main plaza shows the transition of height and density within the site as the building type transforms from townhouse to apartment building. The arrangement of buildings forms inner public spaces and walkways while still maintaining a safe and private community feeling.
The interior courtyard created by the surrounding apartment buildings forms a communal backyard space for all the residents, while being a very protected space welcoming all inhabitant types.
courtyard elevation 1:300 North Elevation
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8th Floor
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2nd Floor
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Ground Floor
The apartment building uses a combination of flats and skip-stop style units to maximize efficiency of space, and create diversity in unit types and inhabitants, resulting in a very unique set of residents. Target Demographic: Low Income Families Young Professionals Empty Nesters
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Unit Break Down: Bachelor: 25 Units 1 Bed: 105 Units 2 Bed: 61 Units 3 Bed: 15 Units Total: 206 Units
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unit a - 3 bed skip stop 1:100
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unit a - 3 bed Unit skip 1:100 A - 3stop Bed Skip Stop bathroom
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Technical Details
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SUSTAINABLE RESEARCH CENTRE Location: Programs: Course: Instructor: Ottawa, ON Rhino, V-Ray Studio 4 Eric Archembault Photoshop, Illustrator Fall 2013 The proposal for my institute is a research center for sustainable development and innovation, particularly as solutions within dense urban areas. The institute will experiment with ways of naturally filtering air and water with plants, bringing plants into a building via green houses and green walls, how they can function within this setting, and how it affects its inhabitants. The institute will also be concerned with using methods of natural energy, and overall reducing power usage within their building. There will be classes and workshops dedicated to educating the public about sustainable lifestyles and will become a hub for sustainability awareness and growth within the Ottawa region, setting an example for the rest of Canada to be more environmentally conscious. 16
Concept Model
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Site Map
Longitudinal Section: The greenhouses within the institute also create a core, connecting them all along a central aix, allowing sunlight to penetrate the center of the building and the vegetation within. The interior green houses follow the same path as the mechanical core, allowing easy access to water, and ventilation needed to sustain the plant life. The roof of the institution slopes inward, collecting rainwater and immediately feeding it into the roof top green houses. Any overflow on the roof, and surrounding landscape is directed into the central wetlands, where the water is naturally filtered, and can be roused in a grey water system.
Vignette of Courtyard from Interior
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4th Floor
3rd Floor
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Ground Floor
Basement 20
The structure of the institute is a column and slab construction, supported on a combination of a slab with footings, and pilotis, supported with piles driven into the ground. The bridges are a large truss system to create a single spanning plane connecting the two buildings. The red columns highlight the main cores within the institute, providing transportation for people and the mechanical equipment. The building will utilize passive ventilation as a means of heating, cooling, and filtering the air. The use of radiant heating eliminated the need for forced air to heat the building. Overall the institution takes a more passive approach on sustainable issues. Using the earths natural resources for energy, and filtration and overall wellness to its best advantage, this institution aims to reduce its carbon footprint, lower its energy use, and set an example for urban cities and cultures that using sustainable methods within architecture and daily lives is easy and rewarding.
Section Perspective
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DIGITAL FABRICATION
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MAGNETIC FIELDS Course: Digital Discourse Fall 2013
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Instructor: Johan Voordouw
Collaborators: Andrej Iwanski, Jay Pabila, Maria Sanchez
Programs: Rhino, Grasshopper, Laser Cutter
QUINGPU PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE Course: Architectural Technology Fall 2012
Instructor: Manuel Baez
Collaborators: Matthew Lerch Olivier LaRoche
Programs: SketchUp, Laser Cutter
Collaborators:
Programs: Rhino, Laser Cutter
SPACE EXPLORATION Course: Computer Modelling Winter 2013
Instructor: Johan Voordouw
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PHOTOGRAPHY
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Burgama, Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey
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Florence, Italy
Cappadocia, Turkey
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Petra, Jordan
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Petra, Jordan
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THANK YOU victoria.a.bennett@gmail.com