STUDENT WORK / 14 X 1 / 2B STUDIO

Monday and Thursday are studio days. On these days in particular, the third floor undergraduate studio is filled with a frenetic energy of design, research and exploration. Students can usually be found talking excitedly with design professors and classmates in a habitat saturated with trace sketches, study models and empty coffee cups. Every week we’ll share a completed project, churned out from this energetic studio environment.

2B DESIGN STUDIO SPRING 2012: SPECIES, SPACES AND TERRITORIES

Faculty: Taymoore Balbaa, Fionn Byrne, Scott Sørli, Matthew Spremulli, Lola Sheppard (Coordinator)

“The intention of this studio is to focus a discussion, through design, on the relationship of building, landscape and environment. The studio seeks to engage discussions that have been ongoing within architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, geography, and in the humanities, as to how we understand and shape our landscapes, and the degree of agency and control which we as species, and designers should or can have within these environments. How do we understand ‘nature’ today, given that our collective understanding of this term has been mutating and evolving over centuries?”

14 X 1 by Jack Lipson

Project Statement:

Nestled in the heart of Toronto’s Don Valley, the Winery+Orchard sets to blur the lines between program and circulation, creating a harmonious and interactive timeline between the experience of the visitor and the process the wine undergoes from the orchard through fermentation to consumption. The winery is unique in that it aims to balance and cultivate fourteen different species of fruit, instead of simply one, offering back an assortment of eclectic wines.

In addition to a winery, this development serves as a park, orchard, and research facility, as well as serving as an educative institute for the understanding and execution of a micro winery for the greater spread area.