2019 Architecture Portfolio

2019

Dan Vanderhorst

Selected Works

Content Forty-two House(es) Fall 2018

Rathnelly Manor Spring 2018

Walmalopolis Spring 2019

Wellington Info Kiosk Summer 2018

Sidewalk Citizen Summer 2019

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I believe in an architecture where form follows fun.

Where design is informal.

Where you learn as you go – as you design, and as you build.

If the world is a laboratory, then architecture is an experiment in which one may explore the world.

Form follows function This portfolio touches upon several creative works - ranging from paper architecture in the beginning to more tangible and built architecture at the end - that illustrate how I explore the world.

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Forty-two House(es)

Project Time:

Fall 2018, Fourth-

year

Advisors: Jeannie Kim + Mauricio Quiros Pacheco

Academic multi-unit residential design

Project Type:

42 houses is a design for a 21-storey student residence in downtown Toronto. The residence would be built as part of a public-private partnership between the University of Toronto and a private developer. As an attempt to mediate between the pros and cons of both the old Victorian triplexes that dominate old Toronto and the glass condos that dominate new Toronto, 42 houses seeks to combine both typologies within one building. While the triplexes offer a sense of character and community that the glass towers don’t, they simply do not allow for the density (and therefore financial feasibility) of these towers. And so, this design stacks clusters of units in a way mimicking the Victorian triplexes in a series of 6 different levels, each containing their own neighborhood theme, but all within the same building.

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Rathnelly Manor South Elevation

East Elevation

Project Time: Spring

Location: Toronto,

Advisor: Chloe

2018

Project Type: Academic

Town

residential design

Ontario

Located in the sovereign nation of the “Republic of Rathnelly”, a unique neighborhood in Toronto, this house for a married artist and writer pays homage to the quirky and playful nature of its location.

It sits on the end of the republic’s main avenue, Rathnelly Ave, and takes an iconic, pitched-roof, house form, serving as a symbol of the entire area. The iconic yet playful character of the house is enhanced through the martini glasses, symbols found on Rathnelly’s crest and flag, which are stamped into the houses rose-tinted concrete exterior.

Each of the houses three floors contains a different function and forms a u-shape that opens in a different orientation, allowing for a large cylindrical courtyard to penetrate through the house and connect these three unique worlds.

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Third Floor

Second Floor

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Walmalopolis Trailer parks are America’s largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing. Yet due to their zoning restrictions and location – typically on cheap land in non-residential areas around the city limits – they have become targets for developers of big box stores to buy up. These tend to be very lucrative for trailer park owners as well, as they can earn a much bigger profit selling their land than they typically do from the low rent they charge their tenants. The only major downfall to this transaction is that the tenants are usually evicted within a matter of weeks, and since they tend to be low-income, they have few alternatives and often end up homeless.

However, an analysis of the main big box store that buys up trailer parks – Walmart – reveals a key inefficiency: the vast unused space in their parking lots that are rarely even close to full. Walmalopolis is a speculative plan that proposes to fill this unused parking lot space with affordable settlements for the evicted trailer park dwellers, allowing them to use liquidated store products to create their homes and social amenities.

Project Time: Spring

Advisors: Tara

2019

Project Type: Academic

Bissett

Led group, picked research topic, and created all drawings

Role:

Group Project

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Phase 1

Phase 2

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Phase 3

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Wellington Info Kiosk

Project Time: Summer Location:

2018

Wellington, Ontario

Design - Build Research project (Academic + Group)

Project Type:

Advisors: Mark

Erickson + Matt Ken-

nedy Role: Played

a leadership role in design and fabrication, created drawings and digital model

Building on a small town’s unique craftsman and quilting heritage, this info kiosk serves as a beacon for Prince Edward County. The small cubic pavillion is the result of a 2-week design build that sought to provide Wellington, Ontario with a new visitor centre and gateway to the community. To connect to the community and attract visitors, the design was a 3-dimensional manifestation of the geometric quilt patterns that can be found on structures throughout this small town and region. The pavilion is split into 2 portions: the outdoor pergola structure with bleacher seating and the interior area for storing maps, brochures, and pamphlets showcasing local industries and attractions. While the interior provides a space for shelter and collecting information, the exterior seating allows the visitor to relax in the shade, eat ice cream from the local farmers market, and enjoy the lake breeze and views.

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Wellington Info Kiosk

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Sidewalk Citizen

Sidewalk Citizen is a new restaurant in Calgary’s Central Memorial Park. The building experiments with wood as a material as well as digital fabrication techniques, as its entire structure is composed of CNC-milled plywood sheets laminated together and strengthened using dowels. This lamella type of structure is clad with translucent standing-seam polycarbonate sheets, thus allowing light to softly eminate through the trusses in a space that can be used throughout the year. Similar to CLT (Cross Laminated Timber), this project ponders and experiments with how wood can be used in more unconventiional methods, and how this can set a precedent for Canadian architecture in the future.

Project Time: Summer Location: Calgary,

2019

Alberta

Project Type: Professional

Project

Principals: Studio

North

Role: Played large role in design and fabrication, CNC-milled every plywood profile and assembled vast majority of them, created drawings

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My creative portfolio is not just a selection of works communicating my interests and documenting my accomplishments.

It is a story.

It tells what I’ve come to learn through designing and through building.

Because designing and building are not disparate processes.

They rely on one another and complement each other.

A solid foundation in building allows for better design and vice versa.

Design-building suggests a dualistic approach.

One that is both pragmatic and experimental.

One that is both functional and fun.

It is this approach that allows me to explore new types of architecture.