Agamjot Moti - Portfolio

AGAMJOT MOTI, Portfolio

2022

Laurentian University MSoA M.Arch Application

Table of Contents

Flour Mill Gallery....................................................................................................4 Mixed-Use...............................................................................................................14 Ecology Centre....................................................................................................26 Early Learning Centre.....................................................................................34 Wigwam..................................................................................................................40 Drawings.................................................................................................................46

FLOUR MILL ART GALLERY type timeline tools advisor

academic 01/21 - 04/21 Rhino 3D, Adobe Illustrator Amber Baechler

The intent of the design rethinks the Flour Mill community’s deceiving relationship to their namesake, uninhabited silos; a form cherished for its nostalgic presence, despite being disconnected from its original function and use from over a hundred years ago. The art gallery translates this ambiguity through a series of contradictions between the repurposed silos and its new addition:

FLOUR MILL GALLERY

ADAPTIVE REUSE

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The two volumes are contrasted in their approach of creating deceiving and literal adjacencies between public and private realms, however are alike in encouraging the ticketed and unticked visitor along intersecting paths that travel throughout a non-hierarchical distribution of program.

The gallery’s primarily glass facades are cloaked by an internal scrim fabric, stretching across to create a translucency and temporal relationship with light. Depending on the directional stream of light hitting the fabric, it can enable the ability to reveal or conceal activities and movement behind its presence during certain times of the day.

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left: conceptual diagrams exploring key themes right: massing axonometric diagram

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right page top: perspective into level 2 gallery space 8

left: level 1 floor plan right: structural components diagram

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page: 1:200 section [West - East]

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top: vignette callouts from perspective section middle: perspective section [north - south]

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bottom left: perspective of gallery space within silo right: view above cafe of perforated steel catwalks between silos

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ADAPTIVE REUSE

2021

CROSS ROADS contributors type timeline tools advisor

Agamjot Moti + Hailey Clark academic 10/21 - ongoing Rhino 3D, Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop, paper collage Kai Wood Mah

All drawings were completed by myself unless stated otherwise.

CROSSROADS

MIXED USE

2021

This project aims to address the overwhelmingly rapid and underserved unhoused population in Downtown Sudbury, as well as the social disconnect present between various spheres of socioeconomic classes. The design proposes transitional and supported housing tenures that enables residents to reorient their lives at their own pace, while having the next steps of transition to a more permanent accomodation in place as they develop greater sense of independence and self-reliance.

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The ground floor houses a variety of public amenities that provide a variety of services for residents, the unhoused population, and greater community; including a market, counselling offices, washroom facilities, laundry, and public lockers. Additionally featured is a commercial pet salon and adoption centre program to provide a common ground for social interaction, based on a mutual appreciation for their pets. Shared gathering spaces on each residential floor extend the living space beyond the individual suite into a community setting, offering varying scales of privacy in-between.

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top: vignette from East Rock overlooking dog park + site activities 15

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MIXED USE

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crossroads acknowledges the physical manifestation as a point-of-intersection within its site’s urban context, as well as its metaphorical marker of a point of criticial

left page:

top: 1:500 site context plan bottom: site analysis vignettes

top: concept diagrams bottom: site axonometric 17

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top: ground floor plan 1:250 bottom: Lloyd St. Section [East - West] 18

right page:

top: view inside Fresh Market bottom: Lloyd St. underpass

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CROSSROADS

MIXED USE

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2021 MIXED USE CROSSROADS

top: 1:250 typical residential floor plan [level 2] middle: unit diagrams 20

right page:

bottom: 1:250 elevation [North - South] unit distribution diagram

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MIXED USE

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MIXED USE

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page: 1:250 ground floor plan [NW - SE]

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CROSSROADS

MIXED USE

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2021 MIXED USE CROSSROADS

left page

left: exploded structural diagram [completed by Hailey Clark]

right: passive strategy diagrams top: social interaction in shared wintergarden spaces 25

ECOLOGY CENTRE type timeline tools advisor

academic 01/20 - 4/20 Rhino 3D, Adobe Illustrator, ink drawing Kai Wood Mah

ECOLOGY CENTRE

GREEN RIBBON

2020

Nestled along the rock, the ecology centre connects Sudbury’s industrial mining history to its decades long reforestation efforts, bridging an awareness to the transformation of thousands of hectares of barren wasteland into thriving, renewed ecosystems. Overlooking Lake Laurentian, the centre promotes ecotourism and conservation through an immersive nature education embedded within organized learning spaces within the program.

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The building’s primary, meandering rammed earth wall uses local soils, siting the building uniquely to its location, while also reflecting a heaviness similarly found in the rockscape of Sudbury. The layered effect of the rammed earth is composed to to reflect the strata layers in regional rocks.

Circulation within the building mirrors a pit mine; as ramps spiral visitors in a downward descent through the centre, encountering varying moments of light and darkness along their journey to the ground.

Punched-in window cubbies are strategically distributed throughout the primary facade to accommodate local birds to nest based on their natural habitats, while also providing visitors the opportunity to get up close to observe birds and their nesting cycle.

2020 GREEN RIBBON ECOLOGY CENTRE

page: portion of 1:2500 site context plan 27

2020 GREEN RIBBON ECOLOGY CENTRE

top: site plan 1:500 28

bottom: pit mine concept diagram + vignette showing entrance to level 3

2020 GREEN RIBBON ECOLOGY CENTRE

top - bottom: plans 1:250; level 3, 2, 1 (ground floor) 29

ECOLOGY CENTRE

GREEN RIBBON

2020

top: 1:100 elevation [south facing] bottom: 1:100 section [south facing]

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GREEN RIBBON

2020

triple glazed glass

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bucephala clangula

concrete bond beam

high hallows

american sparrow hawk falco sparverius

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chestnut-sided warbler

setophaga pensylvanica

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100 mm polyisocyanurate insulation 250 mm rammed earth wall concrete slab on grade

american robin turdus migratorius

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compacted recycled aggregates limestone footing

ECOLOGY CENTRE

GREEN RIBBON

2020

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top: biodiversity integration diagram 32

bottom: ecological wall section detail

2020 GREEN RIBBON

middle: expression of materiality in learning spaces

ECOLOGY CENTRE

top: downward path from parking lot

bottom: interior exposed rock wall along ramping pathway 33

EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

SUDBURY

2020

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academic 10/20 - 12/20 Rhino 3D, Adobe Illustrator Christian Rutherford

Sitting on top of the of the world’s largest nickel mines, and below the second largest smokestack, the early learning centre project explores the once bustling industrial town of Copper Cliff, and proposes a playful intervention to reconnect the aging population to its younger counterparts.

The building’s shape is derived from the creation of specific programs that form central nuclei, creating an open, yet concentrated layout. Overlapping programmatic spheres ripples outward, creating thresholds for unprogrammed activity to occur between each nucleus of space. Rooms are reduced to a series of spaces with transformable elements, allowing exploration through reconfiguration.

The materiality of spaces are dictated through permanency, with staircases and bathrooms enclosed by concrete walls, office and maintenance spaces encased in glass and curtain, and multifunctional spaces signified through only curtain.

The structure is sheathed in double glazed channel glass, with concrete retaining walls on the semi-underground floor. The translucency of the facade allows for diffused lighting conditions during the day, and the building to glow at night. A community theatre is incorporated within the programming to facilitate gatherings and provide a performative space to a central region in Copper Cliff.

top: site axonometric 1:500

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EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

SUDBURY

2020

2020 SUDBURY EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

top: 1:250 ground floor plan 36

bottom: programming concept diagram

Theatre Staff offices Mudroom Quiet Room Lunch room Kitchen Storage Outdoor play area

top: underground level plan 1:250 [housing toddlers + young children play spaces, and connects to the exterior through sloped hills]

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SUDBURY

2020

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bottom: children’s theatre at night perspective 37

EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

SUDBURY

2020

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top: enlarged infant suite axonometric bottom: 1:250 section [SW - NE] showing the theatre, staff space, and play areas 38

2020 SUDBURY EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

top: south elevation of recreational pit space bottom: interior rendering of flexible play spaces - creation of impermanent zones by drawing a curtain 39

WIGWAM type timeline tools advisor

academic 09/19 birch bark, cedar, jute, ink pen Adil Mansure + Art Petahtegoose

WIGWAM

CULTURAL BUILD

2019

In 2018, an initiative, led by local elders and knowledgekeepers, was to construct a wigwam, a traditional bentwood structure native to the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek peoples, on the Laurentian University campus. That same year, the wigwam was hand-constructed by an upperyear cohort of MSoA students. The following year, each student of my own cohort was given the opportunity to further contribute by crafting a birch bark panel [wigwas] to clad onto the wigwam. Under the guidance of a local indigenous elder, we undertook the journey of harvesting and working with the raw materials; developing a sense of compassion towards the bark as I worked sensitively to soften and flatten its rigorous curved nature.

Succeeding the cladding process, I created a sectional drawing highlighting the elemental qualities of the design process in relation to the material sourcing and construction of the bent wood structure. The drawing embeds various scales, and considers how each element comes together in union. right + next page: timeline of cladding process through photos + sketching after: experiential section 40

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WIGWAM

CULTURAL BUILD

2019

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CULTURAL BUILD

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CULTURAL BUILD

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CULTURAL BUILD

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CULTURAL BUILD

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POSTCARDS

POSTCARDS

DRAWINGS

2020

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personal 06/20 - 08/20 ink pen

In the summer of 2020, I completed a series of three postcards. the subject of each was informed by a distinct characteristic of Sudbury, and how its heritage has influenced the image of what is percieved of the north. growing up in suburbia, my connection to what can be considered the ‘wild outdoors’ was limited, resulting in an unfamiliarity with the land. however, as I continue to study, and spend more time up north, I have begun to understand the capacity of what the land can offer, and how it shapes the lifestyle people that live amongst it.

Voyageurs

4” x 5”

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POSTCARDS

DRAWINGS

2020

Mining Town

4” x 7”

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POSTCARDS

DRAWINGS

2020

2020 DRAWINGS POSTCARDS

Winter on Ramsey Lake 5” x 7” 49

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