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 Monday we’ll share a completed project, churned out from this energetic studio environment. Arch 493 / Andrew Levitt studio coordinator Comprehensive Design Studio Project...
A few weeks ago now, the sun beat down, the humidex was beyond bearable, yet the fourth year class persevered through conceiving, mounting and exploring twelve landscape installations throughout downtown Galt. The study of Contemporary Landscape, led by Elise Shelley, first tasked groups to investigate the pedagogy of a specific landscape architect who has been influential in the development of the profession. Through this understanding of an approach to landscape design, students were then challenged...
Last week the sun beat down, the humidex was beyond bearable, yet the fourth year class persevered through conceiving, mounting and exploring twelve landscape installations throughout downtown Galt. The study of Contemporary Landscape, led by Elise Shelley, first tasked groups to investigate the pedagogy of a specific landscape architect who has been influential in the development of the profession. Through this understanding of an approach to landscape design, students were then challenged to test their...