As part of a series of selected projects from this past summer’s 2B studio (ARC 293), Brenda Reid proposes [UN]ZOO - a strategy to repair the Don’s ecosystems in conjunction with human presence. The site for this studio was the the Don Valley, a ravine in Toronto that forms part of the Don River watershed. From site strategy to façade details Brenda designs the buildings to be a structure respectful to human and animal needs.

Amrit Phull will defend her thesis entitled HUNTING FOR: Lessons on Architecture in Cree Territory on Monday December 8th at 2pm in the Main Lecture Theatre. The thesis navigates tensions between North and South through narratives of Cree culture in an effort to move toward a more responsible practice of architecture in this subarctic context.

A century after the burial of Garrison Creek, the neighborhoods where the former creek flowed through are subject to commercial development dissecting the Victorian neighborhoods into fragments of polarized places resulting in the lack of public spaces for play. This thesis is conceived based on Michael Hough’s theory of holistic design and draws design inspirations from landscape architects such as Kongjian Yu and Michel Desvigne to mediate the tension between city and nature by using localized strategies.