Waterloo’s third-year winter studio has always been an opportunity to explore the relationship between architecture and the city. The 2020 studio—“Our House is on Fire”— focuses on the intersection between two contemporary crises: the climate emergency and Toronto’s housing emergency. The challenge of the studio was to design a series of deeply affordable apartment buildings on City-owned and currently vacant sites along Sherbourne Street in the center of Toronto’s Downtown East. Each building was required to integrate complementary public programs at grade that would provide a network of support for low-income residents and form a single community land trust that would secure their affordability in the future.
By Leela Keshav and Michelle Li For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer, it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are...
Join this year’s 4B class as they present a retrospective of their term in Rome. WHERE: BRIDGE Center for Architecture + Design WHEN: Wednesday August 2, 2017, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm.
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. Interested in having your work featured on our STUDENT WORK series?...
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. Interested in having your work featured on our STUDENT WORK series?...
Student Work features The Museum of the City by Sheelah Tolton and Monica Lalas which creates a relationship with the Tiber River and reintroduces the wall as a datum for connecting public spaces.
STUDENT WORK features the final Rome Studio project by Montgomery Moon and James Cameron Parkin entitled Nexus Museum, a place of convergence of transportation and public space, overlaid by exhibition programming which juxtaposes conditions of ideal solidity and contemporary temporality.
In celebration of the Class of 2014’s recent convocation, this week’s STUDENT WORK series shares a selection of their final 4B Comprehensive Building Design projects. Congratulations to the entire class on your commendable work and on the culmination of five years at Waterloo Architecture!
4B DESIGN STUDIO SPRING 2014: THE VOSS SPA – P1 Coordinator: Andrew Levitt This summer, the Comprehensive Building Design Studio focuses on a site in Vossevangen, Norway. Students are asked to design a spa for use by both local people and visiting tourists. The programme includes saunas, treatment rooms, a movement studio, communal kitchen, accommodation rooms, and camping areas. In the P1 assignment, projects were developed to a working schematic level in preparation for detailed...
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. 2A DESIGN STUDIO FALL 2013: Cambridge Common: a space of action...
