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COURTYARD ON QUEEN

Studio 5 - Assignment 5 – March 21st 2018

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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We are proposing the design for a 4- storey live-work 1,320 square-meter building located at the corner of Flemings Street and Queen Street West, Toronto, Canada.

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Queen Street was the baseline of North York in during its planning in 1793. From then the city scape has been evolving, some of what exists today are structures from the early 1900’s that hold shape of the many small businesses along Queen Street West.

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Across the proposed site is a shaded pathway with many deciduous trees, and Paul Garfinkel Parkette adjacent to The Centre of Addiction and Mental Health hospital. Behind the site is numerous townhomes that carry on the short elevations from Queen down Flennings. A large deciduous tree resides

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On the property providing shade to

• Flennings. There is an alleyway between the site

and homes that we can use for the building’s vehicular traffic which we are expecting to be minimal because of Toronto’s public transit that runs down Queen. The sun rises in the North-East and sets in the North-West, moving across the South end, with the wind blowing from the North, making it the cold side. The city’s rules to maintain the small-city feel consists of the building tiering inwards to stay inside the required maximum distance.

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The city holds a lot of character and history, we want to appreciate what exists and compliment it. We plan to build around the existing tree to respect nature, use natural-looking materials, and keep the small-town historical feel. We will create warm and welcoming social spaces to the residents and public along the path

• f circulation.

Typical apartment will consists of a double-loaded corridor, offering one view to each unit, two for corner units, and vertical transportation at the end of the

• corridors. It is done because it is easy to repeat and
• inexpensive. Moshe Safdie’s design on Habitat 67 in

Quebec inspired us to break that trend. To summarize, Safdie made modules of homes and clustered them together with a shared circulation outside but shaded from the elements, giving the feel of an individual home to each tenant that could open their front door and be

• utside rather than an enclosed hallway.

Our approach was to give each resident their own spacious, private, outdoor terrace. We have a single loaded corridor which is located on the side of the building that sits closely to an adjacent shadowing building which would not have provided views. We broke the standard shaping of a building and included protrusions to introduce more opportunities for different views and maximize natural light to each unit. The first floor is broken up in two and consists mostly of retail, service, and common space with only two living units that are two levels high. The East portion of the first floor repeats the circulation upwards whereas the West portion

• f the first floor is smaller.

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The proposed building will be finished with natural- looking materials. We have been influenced by a building that is mostly wrapped with wood veneer, encased the windows with white and have them set inwards, and dark grey on the inset walls on the first

• floor. To mimic the natural look, we propose using

Prodema’s Prodex Light Brown wood planks with a concealed mounting system. The darker shade of material can be Alocobond’s Urban Anthracite composite panel, and for the highlight surfaces Alocobond’s Urban Traffic White composite panel.

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Since the early stages of design we use a narrowing pattern similar to a pyramid to abide by the city’s offset of the building as it moves vertically. The first floor is broken into two parts and is set back. The second floor overhangs to offer shelter to retail fronts and those walking nearby, and relates to the cityscape height to keep it continuous. The third floor then

• ffsets inwards and more so on the fourth floor to avoid the

feeling of being vulnerable of towering building and offering more sky view from the ground.  In the centre of the U-Shaped building consists of a courtyard in the middle with a pathway from Queen St W through a first floor cut-out with the second floor providing protection from the above, and is also accessible from

• Flennings. We are creating a berm between the vehicular-

access alley behind the site that leads to the parking garage to maximize the natural essence, introduce more landscaping and a place to sit, and reduce sound. A challenge is being surrounded by so many buildings, limiting green ground space and sunlight to each unit and

• courtyard. The proposed building is shaped to have the cold

North side as the highest point, and begin stepping down with the lowest point at the South so the sun can shine overtop into the courtyard and units behind. We resisted dropping it too low for those in the courtyard can be offered some shade and the feeling of protection and privacy.

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PROGRAM SUMMARY

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STATISTICS

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Circulation Common Service Bachelor Suite One Bed Suite Two Bed Suite Three Bed Suite Vertical Transport Commercial Suite

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