Nicole revisits the fall term 1A final studio project—a student residence.
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.
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Project: Urban Residence
Instructors: Rick Andrighetti with Anne Bordeleau, Miles Gertler, Kristin Schreiner, and Chloe Town
If you could design a home in Cambridge for other students, what would it look like? Given a choice between four sites in Galt, each with distinct characteristics, students individually designed student residences for 4-5 tenants. Through this project, the 1A class received their first glimpse of what designing a functioning building entails—from partaking in site analyses and design charrettes to incorporating the operational parts of a home—all while shaping a unique parti. By critique day, a myriad of designs emerged, revealing each student’s response to their chosen site.
Hill Site – 16 Warnock St.
Ben Hao
River Site – 21 Melville St. N.
Katia Myers
Nicole Chen
City Site – 10 Ainslie St. S.
Tomoki Kaneko
Neighbourhood Site – 38 Wellington St.
Maddy Kim
Nicole is currently a first year student at the Waterloo School of Architecture.
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