Tanya D'souza - Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio

“As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown.”

-Norman Foster

P O R T F O L I O SELECTED WORKS T A N Y A D’ S O U Z A

2019-2022

Tanya D’ s o u z a Sudbury,ON 647-978-2606 tdsouza@laurentian.ca

Education

Extracurricular

Laurentian University McEwen School of Architecture Sudbury, ON Candidate for Bachelor of Architectural Studies Expected in 05/2023

Laurentian Architecture Student Association (L.A.S.A) McEwen School of Architecture Sudbury, ON Social Media Coordinator 09/2021 - Present L.A.S.A McEwen School of Architecture Sudbury, ON Junior Events Coordinator 09/2020 - 04/2022

Academy for English Education of Lubumbashi - AFEEL Lubumbashi, DR Congo High School Diploma 06/2018 Cambridge International Certificate in Education (ICE) -2016

L.A.S.A McEwen School of Architecture Sudbury, ON Marketing Coordinator 09/2020 - 04/2022

Experience Barrydowne Paint and Wallpaper Sudbury, ON Colour Consultant / Sales Associate 04/2021 - Present Received thorough training on products including primers, paint, stains, wallpaper and equipment needed for everything. Assisted customers with colour consultations and getting everything needed for various design projects.

Sudbury Nuit Blanche 2020 McEwen School of Architecture Sudbury, ON Volunteer 02/2020

Skills

Personal Skills

Rhino

Photoshop

Laser Cutter

- Adaptable

Model Making

- Leadership - Teamwork

Lumion

Illustrator

Enscape

InDesign

Workshop

- Communicative

- Creative

- Organised

- Personable - Detail Oriented

Table of Contents

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01 The Pedestrian Vision of Durham Street Revamping Durham Street

02 Early Learning Colours Adaptive Reuse Daycare

03 The Lake Laurentian Arc Breaking the Cycle; Student Design Competition 2021

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04 Bridging the Causeway Lake Laurentian Conservation Area Ecology Centre

06 The Architecture of Altitude

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Ramsey Lake Ice Station

01 The Pedestrian Vision of Durham Street Third Year Studio l 2022 Revamping Durham Street Downtown Sudbury, ON Advisor l Paniz Moayeri Group Project l Matti Hadad, Aiden Kang, Katherine Pardy & Zachary Knapper Rhino l Lumion l Illustrator The conceptual approach to this project involves envisioning the conversion of Durham Street in Downtown Sudbury for year-round pedestrian use as well as urban events involving new public programming buildings that are to be individually designed later.

This vision encourages the reduction of vehicular traffic and the increase of pedestrian traffic by transforming four driving lanes into just one and extending the sidewalks to be used as bike lanes, promenades, extended restaurant patio spaces and skate paths to provide seasonal and experiential travel for all. A proposed programming building along with a market square and public courtyard sits at the north of the street and acts as a gathering space throughout the year with a space for a stage for the summer UpHere festivals or concerts, splash pads and outdoor seating that transforms into an ice skating rink in the winter. At the south end of the street, the parking lot behind the existing YMCA building is envisioned to turn into a community rental space for parties, group activities such as yoga or skateboarding and a hockey rink in the winter months.

Proposing an extension of walkways to enhance pedestrian movement throughout the street significantly increases interest and interaction through the downtown.

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South End of Durham Street Summer Perspective 7

Section AA’

Section BB’

Section CC’

Section DD’

Downtown Sudbury Site Plan

Section EE’

West Elevation

East Elevation 8

Proposed Summer Site Plan

Proposed Winter Site Plan

Proposed West Elevation

Proposed East Elevation 9

Proposed Section AA’

Proposed Section BB’

Proposed Section DD’ 10

Proposed Section AA’

Proposed Section CC’

Proposed Section EE’

Winter Upper Market Perpective

Lower Market Winter Vignette

Upper Market Winter Axonometric

South End of Durham Street Winter Perspective

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02 Early Learning Colours Third Year Studio l 2021 Adaptive Reuse Daycare 135 Durham Street, Sudbury, ON Advisor l Thomas Strickland Rhino l Lumion l Illustrator l Laser Cutter On 135 Durham Street, in downtown Sudbury, the proposal of the old Roy’s Furniture building to an Adaptive Reuse Early Learning Centre takes place. The conceptual approach for this adaptive reuse was built off the several colourful murals in downtown Sudbury and inspired the colour and interactive separations and spaces through the building. The building welcomes the community with an elongated coloured glass wall at the entrance and a large indoor/outdoor space for children that extends upwards to the children’s activity and gross motor rooms as well as a community art studio and gallery on the top floor. The use of colour through the building aspires to increase children’s cognitive skills, create moments of interest and joy and to inspire more colour through downtown Sudbury.

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Exterior Playground Render

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Pre-School Cubbies Render Wall Section

Massing Diagrams

Conceptual Sketches 14

Adaptive Reuse Diagram

Laser Cut Physical Model

Gross Motor Room Render 15

Structural Diagram

Main Floor Plan 16

Basement Plan

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

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Section AA’

Section BB’ 18

Durham St. Elevation

Elgin St. Elevation 19

03 The Lake Laurentian Arc Student Design Compettion for Canadian Academy of Architecture for Justice (CAAJ) l 2021 Breaking the Cycle l Design for a Community Justice Centre Lake Laurentian Consrvation Area (LLCA), Sudbury, ON Group Project lDhruv Mistry, Adayah Okung, Tej Raja & Erick Sturm Rhino l Enscape l Illustrator l Photoshop The proposal of a community justice centre challenges to create a space that is comforting and welcoming to all, where there is no hierarchy of power, but neutrality between all those who inhabit and visit in a time where the current justice system is harsh and displays systematic discrimination, racism and social unrest. The movement in a circle throughout the building as a whole as well as in individual rooms displays unity and breaks the hierarchy of power. Designed to be located farther away from the city at the Lake Laurentian Conservation Area in Sudbury, the proposal aims to create a micro-community that is inclusive to all. Providing views of the surrounding Lake Laurentian and designing a large biophilic courtyard in the centre, the community is given the space to contemplate in a nature-infused space rather than a simple room aspiring to make them feel welcomed and cared for.

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Courtyard Render 21

Section

Summer Wind Path

Site Plan 22

Winter Wind Path

Elevation

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Clinical Zone Justice Department Grand Foyer

1st Floor Plan Maintenance/Ulilities Clinics Office Spaces Multipurpose Rooms Courtroom Grand Foyer Medical Housing Units

2nd Floor Plan

1. Legal Clinic/Office 2. Employment Services 3. Mental Health and Addiction Services 4. Social Services Clinic

Exploded Building Axonometric 23

Exterior Facade Render

Courtyard Render

Top View 24

Rehabilitation Room Render

Courtroom Render

Grand Foyer Render

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04 Bridging the Causeway Second Year Studio l 2021 The Ecology Centre Lake Laurentian Consrvation Area (LLCA), Sudbury, ON Advisor l Mark Baechler Rhino l Lumion l Illustrator l Photoshop At the Lake Laurentian Conservation Area, in Sudbury, Lake Laurentian and the Leatherleaf Bog across it are connected underground through a dam and are met by a causeway above ground. The proposal for an Ecology Centre looks to regreen the causeway, mimicking the landscape around the area and create a large, light and open space for activities and to be one with nature. The design aims to make the experience of movement through the causeway feel similar to that movement through the surrounding trails in the conservation area. The three program buildings are placed a distance from one another and connected by a large and accessible cedar boardwalk that follows the topography of the lake shoreline. The entire structure is raised no more than 2ft off the ground allowing smaller plant and animal life to live and grow and alongside the centre tree plantings are proposed in order to regreen the causeway.

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Greenhouse Render 27

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Site & Floor Plan

Cross Section

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Longitudinal Section

Bench 3-D

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Bench Section

Winter Deck Render

Floor to Ceiling Structure Detail

Summer Deck Render

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Perspectival Section

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Classroom Render

Top View Render

Elevation Render 33

05 The Architecture of Altitude First Year Studio l 2021 Ice Stations Ramsey Lake, Sudbury, ON Advisor l Jennifer Harvey Group Design-Build Project Tasked to design and build one of five Ice Stations as a group, that would form a community of Ice Stations on the Ramsey Lake skate path; The architecture of Altitude provides shelter and seating for people from the winter winds. The site of the Ice Stations used to house an old bush plane airport and the bush plane, being an important aspect of Sudbury and the site’s history, inspired the design of this ice station.

Without taking inspiration from a bush plate too literally, two benches, angled away from each other are joined together by rafters at the top to recreate the feeling of flying as one skates through or sits in the Ice Station.

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Photographs Courtersy of Siah Klassen & Mitchell Epp 36

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THANK YOU! tdsouza@laurentian.ca 647 - 978 - 2606

T A N Y A D’ S O U Z A

SELECTED WORKS

2019 - 2022