CURRICULUM VITAE
THESIS
PRIVA[SEE]N: URBANIZING THE DIGITAL GAZE
MASTERS RESILIENCE AND REMEMBRANCE
2SLGBTQI+ NATIONAL MONUMENT PUBLIC CITY ARCHITECTURE
UNDERGRADUATE LAYER HOUSE
178 LANGSIDE SIZE ARCHITECTURE
LAWNDALE HOUSE PUBLIC CITY ARCHITECTURE
VISION FOR TALISMAN LANDS PUBLIC CITY ARCHITECTURE
229 RICHMOND COMPETITION PUBLIC CITY ARCHITECTURE
UNDERGRADUATE BROADWAY HOUSING
UNDERGRADUATE WHAK DESIGN-BUILD
UNDERGRADUATE DIG SITE + THERMAL BATHS
EXTRACURRICULAR
B.Env.D, M.Arch, Intern Architect
204 899 2327
breanne_baydock@hotmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/breanne-baydock
Breanne is an experienced designer and teaching assistant with a demonstrated history in international design competitons, 3D modelling to aide design development and construction documents, and working on a multitude of scales including master planning, community engagement, residential, commercial, and public infrastructure. As a designer, Breanne has an interest in low-income housing initiatives, equitable development strategies and site-responsive designs with high quality detailing.
McGill University
Masters of Architecture (M.Arch) 2023
University of Manitoba
Bachelor of Environmental Design (B.Env.D)
Majoring in Architecture
2020
Radoslav Zuk Geometry Prize - 2023
Final thesis project which exhibits the highest degree of mathematical rigor.
Dean’s List Recipient - 2018-2020
GPA of 4.0-4.3
UniversityofManitobaARCHFOLIO
Publication- 2019-20
University of Manitoba Warehouse
Journal - 2019-20
Modelling: Rhino, Sketchup
Visualization: Enscape, Twinmotion
Drafting: AutoCad, Vectorworks, Revit
Adobe Creative Suite
Schematic, Design Development, Construction Documents
Graphic design and layout compesition
Physical model-building expertise
Analogue drafting
Intern Architect, Toronto Current | Design Assistant, Winnipeg 2021-2022
Played a pivitol role as part of Team Wreford for the winning design chosen for the 2SLGBTQI+ National Monument International Competition in Ottawa, CA
Part of the core design team for the 229 Richmond Park, (Toronto), and the RiverWalk West (Calgary) International Competitions
Worked closely with Landscape Architecture on LA schemes, and cross-disciplinary projects
Produced design presentations and CD’s for clients such as the National Capital Commision
Worked on single/multi-unit housing and public infrastructure
PRAIRIE ARCHITECTURE INC.
Design Assistant | Winnipeg, MB | 2021
In charge of digitally modelling and rendering institutional and multifamily residential projects, as well as producing interior design schemes.
Handled client relations and contributed to design consultation meetings.
SIZE ARCHITECTURE
Design Assistant | Winnipeg, MB | 2020
Responsible for schematic design development, construction documents, rendering, and communicating with trades. Worked directly under Principal Architect and collaboratively with partnered Architecture firms.
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
Teaching Assistant/Grader | Winnipeg, MB | 2019-2020
Produced design precedent lectures. Graded course work and provided feedback on graphic layouts, design development, and writing standards in relation to architecture.
Priva[see]n: Urbanizing
The city is a place of infinite encounters; windows, strangers, eyes, and gazes. We are caught up in a system of gazing while being gazed upon, an endless series of interactions where power and anxiety are in constant flux. Narrow streets, collections of repetitive openings, and the condition of being viewed from all angles; the city is an inescapable stage. The work aims to uncover how bodies are currently viewed through architectural apertures and to study our limits of privacy within the city.
In an era of unlimited digital access, we exist within a condition of social surveillance where lines of privacy have been negotiated further than the expectations for our physical environment. The project accepts this culture of shameless viewing, and applies the notion of framing, editing, and curating the self-image to the built environment, amplifying our collective viewing pleasures.
What if the urban street façade was a staging of bodies in space, where apertures respond to the life beyond them, and our perceptions of privacy are questioned to create a display of activity?
Facades and apertures are fundamental mechanisms of performance, mediating environmental conditions. This definition, however, can be expanded to include the performance of human interaction. The skins of our environment,dividing private from public, have the ability to manipulate our perception of those around us, shedding light on our shared commonalities. Our streetscapes have the ability to become dynamic spaces for performance, inviting the gaze from both sides.
The resulting design proposal is a study of apertures and building skins, designed in response to the scale, movement, and relationship of bodies, using cues from the modern era of digital viewing to inform systems. Four facades, Recluse (The phenomena of seeing without being seen,) Display (digital objectification of self translated physically,) Distort, (A filtered version of reality,) and Control, (agency over perception) are studied in relation to one aother. The result becomes a process of expanding building skins to create accessible spaces that enhance the public/private relationship of humans in an urban environment.
Edward Hopper, New York Office 1
Plan disecting New York Office to understand field of view 2
Edward Hopper, Office in a Small City 3
Plan disecting Office in a Small City to understand field of view 4
Hopper’s paintings reconstructed into a city block to understand viewpoints and extract gazes as objects defined by architectural frames
Model studying aperatures designed using vocabulary of the gaze such as glimpse, display, and distortion,
Located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in the town of Métis-sur-Mer, the site has been under threat by coastal erosion and rising sea levels. The peninsula includes heritage lighthouse structures, 12 secondary residences, a small research building to study the unique marine biology, all of which are at risk, as the site will become an island by 2050 due to climate change. The proposal aims to change the use of the site from private to public, introduce sustainable ecotourism to drive the small economy, and serve as a case study for resilient architecture and planning practices that respond to climate change on a community scale. The scheme uses a phased approach which includes a resilient lighthouse memorial site that embraces sea level rise and serves as a reminder, a reserach centre on the island, an adjacent relocation site for the modular reserach centre to be reconstructed once necessary over time, and an off site dwelling that supports such research and tourism. The project analyizes the process of unbuilding that can be undertaken by local labourers, and modular designs that are built for reassembly, both of which are supported by an in-depth financial analysis which uses federal, institutional, and municipal funding along with grants and rental strategies to create a viable phased approach with return on investment.
The designs of the structures themselves are based on the evolving practice of thermal nesting ( Professor Salmaan Craig, McGill,) which uses shape and material as part of natural thermal and ventilation cycles to replace mechanical systems. The structures use locally sourced materials and are designed as a pannelized system for unbuilding.
The structures have minimal impact on the landscape, commemorate historical value, and allow for continued ecological research. The work aims to extend the island’s presence past its physical boundaries, creating a cultural, and educational network that supports Métissur-Mer economically, and enriches its cultural position in the region. The projects confronts the value of heritage conservation in a time of climate change, the benefits of nomadic architecture and resilient planning approaches, and the urgency that exists to implement sustainable and responsible processes of building and design.
Pannelized Research and Educational Centre, designed for disassembly and relocation
A recall of the structures once there. Resilient intervention in a dynamic environemnet
Research Centure Modular Plan
Prefabricated Panel Connection Detail
Research Centre CLT Panel Wall Section
Annual Thermal Nesting Strategy for Dwelling Structures
Thunderhead is the winning design chosen as the 2SLGBTQI+ National Monument from the International Competition held in 2021. Designed by Public City Architecture the park is centred around the monument formed by the impression of a glittering thundercloud from a solid column, represnting the strength, courage, darkness, and regeneration of the LGBT Purge, a stage in Canadian history where gay and 2-spirited indaviduals were discharged simply for being who they are.
I was privilleged enough to be apart of the design concept stage of this project prior to the competition submission and have been working on it up to the construction document and tender phase. I was responsible for the modelling of the site, working with the Landscape Architecture team to work out grading, site lines, and the architectural form of the many design itterations the project has been through.
I also produced the model of thunderhead working directly under the principal architects to refine the complex geomerty and determine means of construction through prototyping, diagramming, and 3D-printing. Further modelling of the walls on the site were used to inform the construction documents, address issues with geometry not understood through 2D drawings, and as useful tools distributed to the trades.
Section & Detail Drawing: Breanne Baydock
Structural Axo Drawing: Breanne Baydock
Inspired by the visual layering of landscape, texture, and ancient construction throughout the Peloponnese region of Greece, Layer House aims to create a multi-dimensional atmosphere suspended within the interstitial space created by the skeletal ruin that defines the character of the place.
The proposed mixed-use space sits suspended, within the shell of a timeworn stone structure that links the two approaching streets through a drastic grade change. Two towers emerge with alternating floor-plates mimicking the natural depression of the site, divided by a generous lightwell, highlighting the exposed rock formation below. The cantilevered form allows for the use of a semi-submerged commercial space accessed from above or below, where the user transitions through, and under structure, becoming aware of the depth of space.
Four single-bedroom residential units sit above, all featuring vertical interplay or mezzanines to contribute to the collection of fluctuating views throughout the spaces.
178 Langside is a 12-unit multi-family dwelling designed for the lively inner-city neighborhood of West Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
I was given the opportunity to design the building massing through modelling, along with the variety of suite layouts. Working under the direction of the Principal Architect, I was able to produce a cohesive set with refined details.
Along with the construction document set, the visualization renders produced were used for marketing purposes.
Lawndale House is a single-family residence located in the Norwood area of Winnipeg. The project scope involved a 430 sq ft addition which expands the kitchen, creates a liveable circulation hallway, additonal bathroom, and mudroom. Renovations to the second floor and a new garage were also designed.
I was able to produce design development documents and provide a visualization for the clients to understand the design decisions. Under the Principal Architect I was involved in key design work, and detailed millwork planning.
Highered by a non-for-profit group, A Vision for the Talisman Lands was a counter proposal to a controversial building development across three properties in the Beaver Valley, that has not been embraced by the community. The Vision included a series of extensive mapping exercisess, plotting municipal, regional, and leagal ordinaces as well as environemntal offsets to determine the true areas for allowable development. The result was a holistic scheme driven by a community engagement session and several steering committee meetings that invloves forest, stream, and meadow rehabilitation, agriculture opportunities, reasonable eco-housing, and community gathering spaces. The proposal was presented to council in efforts to re-engage the community in planning processes and present reliable data about the ecological systems on the lands at stake. Modelling and diagramming were key in order to present concepts in a clear and conise way to the general public, alone with visualizations to provide the municipality with an alternative vision.
The Electric Forest was one of the five shortlisted proposals done by Public City Architecture for the International Design Competition for the 229 Richmond Street Park in Toronto, Ontario.
I was involved in design meetings with the Indigenous Design Consultant and worked through several planning schemes with the Landscape Architects.
Along with an intensive modelling of the final scheme and surrounding context, I was able to defien the form of the public washroom for the project. Working with the Principal Architect the design was refined and modelled to be integrated in to the final proposal.
The mixed-use building aims to define the active inner-city corner in downtown Winnipeg, and work as part of a larger redevelopment scheme that will increase density in the downtown city. The project studied optimum intake rates for residents that the city could support and used the model of Liveable Corridors to define placement. The building provides 30 units of the needed 210 along with bike storage, commercial space, and separate office and residential entrances.
The residential levels are made up of doubleheight, inter-locking units, allowing for each to span the width of the structure providing both a N-E and S-W view. With pairs of units centered around a single circulation corridor, the floor area ratio and efficiency of the building is increased, where one hallway services three levels. Though galley-style unit layouts, the slightness of the buildings angle in contrast to the perpindicular pattern of Winnipeg’s street grid provides fluctuating views complimented by the double-height spaces aimed at enticing inner-city residents.
WHAK, or Warming Hut for Anish Kapoor, was the University of Manitoba’s submission for the internationally know Warming Hut Competition in Winnipeg. Originally Intended to showcase the work of Anish Kapoor, WHAK alludes to Kapoor’s earlier Stackhouse installation (2017), derived from its dramatic 5x5 meter dimensions. The ominous cube is void of site, simply connected to its surroundings via its harsh interaction with the ice. WHAK focus’ on the process of transition, delay, and release, through a series of contrasting spaces feautring a luminescent disk carved into the ice of the Red River, reminiscent of Kapoor’s concave mirrors. Designed with the understanding the featured art would not arrive until the following year, WHAK aims to provide the user with a moment of pause, highlighting the presence of absence.
The project aims to satisfy the historical timeline of the South Dakota site through structure, a place once lively with bath house touristis now sits vacant, paralleling the prehistoric archeologicl dig site where mammoths once swam, only to drown in the warm waters. The project features dual programming centered around the natural depression in grade, where the sectioning of the archeological pit allows for the bath house to exist partially submerged. The series of pools explore the relationship to ground, allowing the user to experience the sensations of past occupants, through confinement, descent, and the eventual release of structure.As the user proceeds through the descending pools, they are abruptly faced with the fossillized remains of ancient mammoths, and are able to view the ongoing archeological work, therefore giving the user a moment of pause to reflect on the eerie history of the ancient site.
In addition to architecture I am a practicing visual artist working primarily through canvas painting, digital print making, and graphite drawing. Most pieces are mixed-media utilizing acrylic, oil, plaster, chalk, graphite, conte, and in some cases, screen printing.
After holding an indavidual exhibition in Toronto this past summer, I have continued to expand my catalogue of work, and have started to invest time into object design and research. My intent is to pursue both of these passions alongside architecture into the future.
