Nightingale Portfolio 2019-2022

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Layered Gallery / Residence

3rd year Semester 1

Instructor: Shane Williamson Type: Individual academic drawing + model

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Moments in Passing

3rd year Semester 2 Instructor: Sukaina Kubba Type: Individual academic painting

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Fragment Suzuki House

3rd year Semester 1

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Instructor: Shane Williamson Type: Individual academic drawing + model

Stacked Student Residence

3rd year Semester 2

Instructor: David Verbeek

Type: Individual academic drawing + model

2nd year Semester 2 Instructor: Mauricio Quiros Pacheco Type: Individual academic drawing + model

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Thesis: Blurring the Boundary: Creating Community in Mixed-income Communities

4th year Semester 1 - Present

Instructor: Simon Rabyniuk

Type: Individual academic research, model, and drawing

01 Layered Residence

2021

Type: Individual Academic Drawing + Model

Year: 3rd first semester

Duration: 1 month

Tasked with designing a mixed-use residential building on the site of Kensington market. The unique site exists in a transitional space between residential and commercial use buildings. The laneway house then prompted the question, how do we design a building that exists in a transitional space? Through the layering of a transparent polycarbonate material on the exterior of the building, cuts were made as a response to surrounding buildings, opening or closing based on its surrounding site context. The layering on the exterior of the building creates an interstitial space that exists somewhere in between the residential and commercial space of Kensington market.

02Precedent:oSuzuki House

2021 Type: Individual Academic Drawing + Model

Year: 3rd first semester

Duration: 1 month

Tasked with studying a residential precedent, the Suzuki house questioned how one central circulation system can activate the domestic environment. The large central “T” shaped bar divides the house and served as an organizational device for domestic life. The house’s unique organization and structure were important in the process of questioning how small homes can function and create compelling lived environments.

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Floor 3

03 Stacked Student Residence 2022

Type: Individual Academic Drawing + Model

Year: 3rd first semester

Duration: 1 month

The site of 15 Devonshire is unique fronting and backing two drastically different urban fabrics, from a busy street to a treefilled walkway and busy street. The 350 unit residence uses a double-loaded corridor and stacked overlapping bars to privilege views and the unique site. The bottom levels of the building are left open so students can pass through the site and access urban programming. The top levels of the building become increasingly private, predominantly housing student rooms with social spaces placed at the end of each bar.

The act of layering the bars created unique conditions where floors overlap, where larger central spaces are created as a result. Because views were a driver for the form of the project the building was offset by the width of the neighbouring building Trinity College. The offset not only creates a larger courtyard but light to enter the lower levels of the residence.

04 Moments in Passing

2022

Type: Academic Painting, Acrylic Paint on Latex

+ Cotton Muslin

Year: 3rd second semester

Duration: 3 weeks

Moments in Passing seeks to appreciate moments in the lived environment that are often overlooked. Each part of the work reframes familiar banal moments, appreciating their simplicity. The latex and its transparency give light to the captured moments and depth through painted shadows. These works had the honour of being featured in the 2022 EYEBALL Exhibition hosted at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.

05 Fragment

2021

Type: Academic Drawing + Model

Year: 2nd second semester

Duration: Cumulative term project

By combining the elements of line and plane, volume is created. Based on the word fragment a pavilion was designed through the careful placement of vertical and horizontal panels. The aggregation of thin transparent vertical films gives the appearance of a solid structure, however, when entering the pavilion or viewing it from a different angle the pavilion itself breaks up into smaller pieces. The placement of horizontal panels leads to an unconventional and fragmented flow of space and occupation. The aggregation of these three architectural elements remains true to the notion of a fragment, to break up or apart into smaller pieces.

06Blurring Boundaries: Creating Community in Mixed-Income Communities

2022

Type: Individual Academic Research, and Drawing

Year: 4th year first semester - present

Duration: Full term

The following project asks the question of how are barriers created in space. More specifically how the architecture of mixed-income communities amplifies and creates social and physical barriers internally and externally to these communities. My project investigates the often-overlooked model of the mixed-income community in Toronto and proposes a new model which can circumvent the issue of community formation. The research project began with an ethnographic study of mixed-income communities in downtown Toronto as a way of understanding these developments.

Following the works of sociologist Robert Chaskin, the project wishes to understand the human need to draw barriers in space and how architects can challenge these barriers. It is through the clustering of intentionally designed and programmed social spaces and the blurring of barriers through their adaptability that we can begin to change the nature of these developments. The project concluded by visualizing my research through speculative collages.

Beverly Place, Ethnographic Study

Cawthra Mansions, Ethnographic Study

Speculative Collages of Proposed Community