Christopher Johnson - Architecture Portfolio 2022-23

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON

Laurentian University McEwen School of Architecture | BAS. 2021, M.Arch. Candidate. May 2023

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER

ABOUT ME

NAME: DATE OF BIRTH: LOCATION:

Christopher Johnson August 29th, 1999 Mississauga, Ontario

CONTACT

EMAIL: PHONE NUMBER: LINKEDIN:

cjohnson3@laurentian.ca +1 226.922.9239 https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjohnson1404/

EDUCATION

Laurentian University, McEwen School of Architecture | Sudbury, Ontario Master of Architecture (M.Arch) Candidate, Anticipated Graduation Date: May 2023

Laurentian University, McEwen School of Architecture | Sudbury, Ontario Bachelor of Architectural Studies (B.Arch), September 2017 — April 2021

WORK EXPERIENCE

David Small Designs, CAD Technician / Co-op Position Oakville, Ontario | January 2022 - Present

• Completed working drawings sets for structure of new-build homes;

• Finalized design packages to include 3D modelling software;

• Reviewed drawings and prepared markups for presentation packages to clients.

Barry Goldman Architect, Student Associate / Co-op Position Toronto, Ontario | May 2021– August 2021

• Completed working drawing (permit) sets for 25 custom home-builds that led to obtaining building permits;

• Coordinated detail drawings for new build and renovation projects which improved the firm’s detail proto files;

• Collaborated with the senior technician to produce permit sets in a 1-2 week timeframe;

• Analyzed design development and working drawings for errors and inaccuracies.

Pascal Mory Architecte, Student Designer Paris, France | May 2021– August 2021

• Developed 20 3-D models of architectural landmarks in Paris that led to building physical models on-site;

• Collaborated with the lead Architect on the curation of the exhibition to present at the Power Station of Art (PAMO);

• Proposed 3D interior layouts for the design of kitchens and bathrooms.

SKILLS

• Proficient in software such as AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, SoftPlan, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Vray, Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat Pro. Working Knowledge of software like Grasshopper, Ladybug, eQuest, Revit, ArchiCAD, SketchUp, Enscape, and Lumion.

• Some Knowledge of lazercutting, model making, building systems and details.

• Licenses and Memberships: WHMIS, full G Driver’s license, Smart-Serve Certified, LEED Green Associate, OAA and RAIC Student Associate

TABLE OF CONTENTSCONTENTS

Ecology Centre

Elevate Performance Pavilion Artist Pavilion Day Care Centre Movement Reintegration Isoceles Drift

MEM.BRAIN PAMO

Affordable Housing

Synergy

The Kent Home

The Welch Home

Growth Spurt

The Fitzgerald-Smith Cabin The PuzzleHouse

The Sandhu House

ELEVATE PERFORMANCE PAVILION

World Stage Design Competition Banff, Alberta 2022 Group OF 2

Software Used: Rhino 3D, Twinmotion, Illustrator, Photoshop Timeframe: 2 Months

Defined by the encompassing monumental rock formations, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is characterized by its integration into the natural landscape. Dependant on adaptable spaces for the diverse expressive art forms that occur on site, the pavilion maintains the deep biophilic roots as a means of inspiration.

The proposed intervention addresses the current campus conditions by reconstructing the site in ways that privilege socially inclusive topographical relations and sustainable temporal evolution. By blurring the lines between indoor and outdoor for the varying production techniques, the site framework is challenged through the flexible spatial configurations.

Influenced by vernacular mountain home typologies, indigenous cultures, vast national parks and the geographic strata, the pavilion plays with the juxtaposition between: weathered exteriors and warm interiors, opaque and transparent facades, assorted rooflines, and the use of repurposed and natural materials.

Course Mass Elevate

Solar Wind Daylight Conceptual Diagrams

ABOVE: Exterior Render of Performance Outdoors BELOW:Exterior Render in Winter Credits to Archic Inc.

Section A

Section B

South-East Elevation

South-West Elevation

REINTEGRATION

Fourth Year Design Studio VIII - Integrated Design II Sudbury, Ontario, 2021 Group of 3

Programs Used: Rhino 7, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Timeframe: 4 Months

The mixed use project combines residential apartments with a grocery store, barbershop, and wellness centre and community space to promote safe and inclusive spaces for users. Located at the Grey field Site in Sudbury, the mixed-use project looks to reintegrate and transition vulnerable communities into their new lives through transitional and social housing units.

My role in the project was to establish structural systems, passive and active design strategies, conceptual development, renderings, enhance the conceptual development of the project from the original concept, and establish lighting and reflected ceiling plans.

College Street

FroodStreet

Urban Design Plan

Mackenzie Street

Evergreen Street

ABOVE: Winter Render in Courtyard BELOW: Pathway behind Parking Garage

Passive Ventilation

Overhang Shade Cistern

Rainscreen Cladding

Passive Ventilation

Permeable Material for Water Collection to drainage

Water Collection for Fire Separations

Rainscreen Cladding

Water Collection on Roof

Overhang Shade Cistern

Geothermal Heat Pump

NightSolar System with Perferations in Cladding on Roof

Permeable Material for Water Collection to drainage

Water Collection for Fire Separations

Water Collection on Roof

Geothermal Heat Pump

NightSolar System with Perferations in Cladding on Roof

Overhang Shade

Rainscreen Cladding

Infloor Heating from Geothermal Heat Pump

Overhang Shade

Rainscreen Cladding

Geothermal Heat Pump

Infloor Heating from Geothermal Heat Pump

Drop Ceiling for Heating using Heat Pump and AHU 7 NightSolar System with Perferations in Cladding on Roof

Drop Ceiling for Heating using Heat Pump and AHU 7 NightSolar System with Perferations in Cladding on Roof

Geothermal Heat Pump

R-60 Roof Assembly

Aluminum Cladding (19mm) EPDM Roof Membrane 12” Rigid Foam Insulation (305mm) Weather Resistive Air Barrier 5-Ply CLT Roof Panel (172mm) OSB Sheathing (19mm)

Nominal RSI: 8.00 m2K/W

R-40 Wall Assembly

Vertical Clapboard Wood Cladding (14mm)

Drainage Space (16mm) Furring Strips Plywood 1”

11” Rigid Foam Insulation (280mm) Vapour Barrier / Airtight / Vapour Tight Polyethylene Film 5-Ply CLT (172mm)

Nominal RSI: 7.00 m2K/W

R-32 Floor Assembly

Hardwood Flooring (19mm) Cement Plaster with Sand Aggregate (25mm)

Continuous Vapour Barrier / Airtight / Vapour Tight Polyethylene Film 9” Rigid Insulation Board (228mm) 5-Ply CLT (172mm)

Nominal RSI: 5.70m2K/W

R-60

Roof Assembly

EPDM Roof Membrane 12” Rigid Foam Insulation (305mm) Weather-Resistive Air Barrier 5-Ply CLT Roof Panel (172mm) Aluminum Cladding (19mm) Nominal RSI: 8.00 m2K/W

R-40 Wall Assembly

Vertical Clapboard Wood Cladding (14mm) Drainage Space (16mm) Furring Strips Plywood 1” 11” Rigid Foam Insulation (280mm) Vapour Barrier/Airtight/Vapour Tight Polyethylene 5-Ply CLT (172mm) OSB Sheathing (19mm) Nominal RSI: 7.00 m2K/W

R-32 Floor Assembly Hardwood Flooring (19mm) Cement Plaster with Sand Aggregate (25mm) Continuous Vapour Barrier/Airtight/Vapour 9” Rigid Insulation Board (228mm) 5-Ply CLT (172mm) Nominal RSI: 5.70 m2K/W

AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN SUDBURY

ARCH 5515 EL-02 Community Building Sudbury, Ontario, 2021 Group of 4

Software Used: Rhino 3D, AutoCAD, Grasshopper, Illustrator, Photoshop, Vray, Enscape Timeframe: 4 Months

Located in New Sudbury, the duplex is located around transportation, schools, local grocery stores, and various amenities surrounding the site. Through mass timber and net zero strategies, the duplex housing model offers a new and innovative approach to affordable housing by catering to the needs of the growing demographic surrounding Twin Forks. By creating student and family units, affordable housing is more readily available within a shorter period of time. My role in the project was to complete the environmental analysis, conceptual design, zoning, building assembly, and Land Bank Strategy.

extended 3 4 5 6

Extend roof to minimize south solar gain in summer 2 Units Base Extrude Volume Slope roof to maximize kwh for solar panel Windows at the South and West walls for natural lighting

Windows at the south & west wall for natural lighting

for future expansion, main unit will occupy the rental unit

ABOVE: Exterior Render of Entry BELOW: Interior Render of Living Room in Family Unit

North Elevation

South Elevation

North Elevation Longitudinal Section

South Elevation

South Elevation

West Elevation

West Elevation Privacy Wall

THE LINK

Sudbury 2050 Design Ideas Competition

Sudbury, Ontario, 2020 Group of 3

Software Used: Rhino 3D, Illustrator, Photoshop Timeframe: 4 Months

Located on Paris Street the Urban Transit Stops are a part of a collaborative effort in the Sudbury 2050 Urban Design Ideas Competition. The competition focuses on creating urban design principles for the future of the city of Sudbury. My role in the competition was to create the new transportation infrastructure that would be implemented into a new urban park proposal that spans from Elgin Street to Science North. By repurposing a neglected piece of the city’s cultural heritage, the overall development provides a nexus for movement and community life. My role was to design the transit infrastructure and renders to accommodate the projects empahsis on downtown Sudbury.

Interactive Organic Connection Community

MOVEMENT

Third Year Design Studio VI - Northern Building II Sudbury, Ontario, 2020 Individual Project

Software Used: Rhino 3D, Illustrator, Photoshop Timeframe: 4 Months

Located on Durham and Elgin street, the adaptive reuse art gallery acts as a placeholder for the Urban Heart of the City. Originally Roy’s Furniture, the art gallery is an adaptive reuse project that uses the existing building and creating a more restorative and cultural identity for the building. Built in three phases, the building speaks to the downtown development. In the redesign of Roy’s Furniture, the art gallery focuses on the sequence of spaces that connect the user to a moment within the downtown core, connecting the user and the artwork to the community. To capture the sequence of events, the initial design intention was to create a feeling of moving between spaces that connect to a social space or view. Each room speaks to a particular moment in the building and the downtown area through a framed view that expresses the development. Large windows listed at two-meters on the North facade represent the storefront ideal set from the 1950s, as well as to provide transparent views toward the street of Durham and the YMCA. On the Elgin Street Facade, the building uses the existing brick and places large galvanized steel fins that are set 1.2 meters from the existing wall to frame the view outside. The café along the Elgin street facade speaks to the railway through the brick material as well as the steel.

Sequence of Spaces

Connecting the user to a particular moment in the building

Context Map

ABOVE: West Elevation along Elgin Street

BELOW: East Elevation along Durham Street

PAMO EXHIBITION

Pascal Mory

Architecte

Professional Power Station of Art (PAMO) Exhibition, Shanghai

Software Used: Rhino 3D, Illustrator Timeframe: 3 Months

Tasked with designing buildings in the city of Paris, the exhibition speaks to the changing city ideals through the lenses of various architects across centuries. From Le Corbusier to André Lurcat, buildings were studied and modelled to be placed in an exhibition at the Power Station of Art. My role in the project was to design 3-D models of buildings to be represented at the PAMO. Buildings would capture the detail in the design using elevations, plans, sections, and views of the building to accurate represent the building to be modelled.

ABOVE: Conceptual Diagram for Exhibition BELOW: Immeduable Villas - Le Corbusier (Unbuilt)

ABOVE: Cité du Refuge - Le Corbusier

BELOW: Maison du Peuple - Le Corbusier

TOP: Arc de Triomphe - Jean Chalgrin

BOTTOM: Karl Marx Groupe Scholaire - André Lurçat

ABOVE: Joesphine Baker House (Unbuilt) - Adolf Loos

BOTTOM: Pavilion Suisse - Le Corbusier

THE SANDHU HOME

David Small Designs Professional

Brampton, Ontario

Software Used: SoftPlan, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Vray, Photoshop

Timeframe: 2 Weeks

Located in Brampton, Ontario, the Sandhu Home was a complex, and challenging configuration of spaces that required a large amount of glazing. A dropped ceiling allows for the HVAC Equipment to span the ground, second, and basement floors. The building incorporates a significant amount of glazing, which would require a consultant to create a detailed energy model. My primary tasks in the project were to create the working drawing sets used to obtain a building permit. Tasks included dimensioning the building, drafting 22 elevations, a section, creating details, completing the window to wall ratio and unprotected openings, and a working drawing render to finalize the project.

Exterior Render of Front Facade

Ground Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Phone: +1 226.922.9239 Email: cjohnson3@laurentian.ca LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjohnson1404/