Consolidating the Invisible Centres

ARCHIPELAGO THESIS (MUD)

AZAR

MALIK

PORTFOLIO SELECTED

PROJECTS

2000-2014

“The Generic City is on its way from horizontality to verticality. The skyscraper looks as if it will be the final, definitive typology. It has swallowed everything else. It can exist anywhere: in a rice field, or downtown - it makes no difference anymore. The towers no longer stand together; they are spaced so that they don't interact. Density in isolation is the ideal.�

S, M, L, XL REM Koolhaas, Bruce Mau

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Consolidating the Invisible Centres

MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO, CANADA THESIS

MEDIUM DENSITY DEVELOPMENT

Location Site Area

Ontario, Canada City of Mississauga

Design Concept Mississauga is a planned post-world war II suburban development.

Despite the fact that Mississauga was conceived as a residential suburban development, it emerged as one of the fastest growing global cities in North America. Large industrial zones, big-box commercial centres, and vast expanses of single-family houses give a peculiar character to the city of Mississauga. These are the very ingredients of suburban developments which perform well in a megalopolis. The thesis topic is inspired by the city of Mississauga’s endeavours to revitalize its city centre. The goals set by the city of Mississauga are the precursors of the city’s desire to create a character by inducing an ultra-urban island in an ocean of sprawl.

Perhaps the solution to building character lies in shifting the paradigm, realizing the fact that people move to suburbs for a preferred lifestyle.

It is this relationship that irrigates the symbiosis between urban and suburban developments regardless of the need for a political city centre. This thesis attempts to equally distribute development efforts all over Mississauga rather than exhaust urban notions of walkability, fine-grain grid, and density in a political city centre, an effort that will only lead to further alienating the centre from its surroundings.

The thesis capitalizes on the active ingredients of the urban/suburban aggregate of the city of Mississauga through various studies and an analysis of its physical and conceptual layers. This exploration finally orchestrates urban design interventions in select locations to consolidate the archipelago of centres.

Above : Proposed public spaces Overleaf : Figure Ground of a Slice of Mississauga including Hurontario Corridor

Townhouses

600

Storage

Franchised Stores/outlets

Parking Lots with office

500

Single Family Units

Distribution / Warehouse

Residential Thomas Kennedy School 700

650

COOKSVILLE STATION (Train Station, Medium Density Residential, Retail, Offices)

BUSINESS CENTRE (Corporate Offices + Warehouses/Distribution + Retail)

Private Parking / Docking

650

Winston Churchill Boulevard

650

Community Park and other amenities

Derry Road

800 600

EMPLOYMENT UNITS (Manufacturing, Assembling, Warehouse, Office) LABYRINTH (Typical Single Family Units)

Study of Built Form

Airport Industrial

Industrial + Offices

Corporate Offices

Residential

Residential Towers (Apartments / Condos)

Retail + Offices + Residential

Retail + Industry+ Warehouse

Retail + Offices

Industrial Manufacturing, Assembling, Offices, Warehouse

Residential Single Famiy Units, Condomini-

Residential Condominiums Apartments

Lake Ontario

Boulevard Lakeshore

Elizab

Commercial Retail, Offices, Institutions, Community, Residential

Queen

Commercial Retail, Offices, Institutions, Community,

Commercial Retail, Offices, Institutions, Community, Queensway

Residential (Apartments, Condominiums, Town Houses, Single Family Units) y 403 Highwa

Hurontario Corridor

High way

401

Industrial Manufacturing, Assembling,

ay eth W

Brampton

60

Hydro Park Landscape

Hurontario North Industrial Zone

Hurontario and Matheson Street

Hurontario and Eglinton Avenue

Mixed Use Node Retail, Offices and Industrial

Retail, Offices

Retail, Offices, Residential

Development Strategy

City Centre Precinct Retail, Offices, Residential

Hurontario Street South Medium Density with more employment opportunities

Cooksville Retail, Offices, Residential

Residential Precinct High Rise as watch towers

Port Credit Linking history and cultural events

Programs Offices Light Manufacturing Shared Parking (above grade)

Programs Residential Offices Parking (below grade) Street Parking

Programs Residential Parking (below grade) Street Parking

Programs Offices Shared Parking (below grade) Street Parking

Programs Big Box Retail Parking (below grade) Roof Garden

Manufacturing + Offices + Storage (Inner Building Envelops)

Programs Big Box Retail Amenities Parking (below grade) Roof Garden

Proposed Building Typologies

Site Plan

Ravine Public Space Trail Habitat

Residential Single Family Units

Hydro Park

Hurontario / John

Dundas St W

Hillcrest Ave.

Hurontario Street LRT

Hillcrest Avenue

Hillcrest Avenue Residential (existing)

Confederation Pkwy

Section (Through Cooksville Proposed Development) Dundas Square - Light rapid Transit

Residential

Dundas St W

Residential Single Family Units Townhouses (existing)

Section (Hurontario Street / Eglinton Avenue) Cooksville Station Precinct Development

Hurontario / John Street

Hurontario Street LRT

Hillcrest Avenue

Hillcrest Avenue Residential (existing)