Exhibition Recap: Trace

The Trace student work exhibition uncovered students’ creative instincts and architectural imaginations.

^{Photo by Danielle Grabke}

The exhibition at the BRIDGE Storefront from March 8-10 featured the work of almost 60 undergraduate and graduate students at Waterloo Architecture.

In conjunction with the March Break Open House for prospective applicants, current students were asked to capture the architectural design process.

Trace paper is one of the first tools resorted to in architectural education. The translucency of trace lends itself to an iterative process, allowing a project to be born out of the layering and refining of ideas.

Designers use many tools and mediums to navigate the environmental, material, and social challenges intertwined with their projects. Sketching, model making, photography, mapping, digital fabrication, and art become forms of exploration. The project fragments on display represent thinking and discoveries through all stages of a project. While these exercises are fundamental to the design process, much of this learning can be difficult to distinguish and read in polished, final projects.

^{Photo by Leo Liu}

^{Photo by Leo Liu}

^{Photo by Leo Liu}

House in the Forest by Jamie Cheung, Ramzig Garboushian, Luciano Lombardo, and Steven Starkell
^{Photo by Fred Hunsberger}

Kronos lamp by Ammar Ghazal & Marius Hexan
^{Photo by Leo Liu}