Design Portfolio 2013-2016

Emily Sinclair Design Portfolio

Contents 06 04 Introduction 08 06

Landscape Typology

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Bike Bar

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The Bike Park

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A View from the Point

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Table for 1201

22 30 Photography

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Cover Photo:Thames Barrier Park, 2013 All Images Copyright Emily Sinclair Unless Otherwise Noted

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About Me I love Winnipeg.

I love the people, I love the ideas, I love the unbelievable flatness, the rivers, and the prairie flowers.

Moving to the city for school in 2011, my growing love for the city has inspired me to explore its possibilities through my design education. By doing this I have established to myself, how I want to see Winnipeg in the future, and am beginning to understand what will be my role in this transformation.

This portfolio is a reflection of the journey I have taken over those years, and shows the design challenges I see as relevant to an ever-changing city.

Thank you for taking the time, Enjoy.

Opposite: ‘Winnipeg by Design’ Performed Live February 2016

Winnipeg. Winterpeg. Chicago of the North. Gateway to the West no matter how it’s designated it’s almost never named the best.

My big city dream imagines a Winnipeg full of pride one which goes beyond the “sights to see” in the tourist guide

a city which is willing to pay attention and invest to building at a human scale - a point important to me - I must confess

My big city dream sees an urban forest - far and wide one which allows for production and habitats and protects us from high tides

and if we must think big, think of patterns on high then let us think of the rivers and the areas we usually hide.

The alleys, the industry, the back yards and the streets all areas of infrastructure, not normally trod on by feet.

For a city built on rivers, it might spell our demise because in this city, the rivers are not connections but divides.

What if the rivers were paths beside which we run and ride and if the weather’s right, on them we might glide?

I think it could be done in your lifetime or mine.

Winnipeg 2030 - Winnipeg by Design

Landscape Typology Studio 4: Networks and Infrastructures Instructor _Ted McLachlan January 2015

Group Project with: Nikko Aliasut, Jaysen Ariola, Ryan Broadfoot, Megan Foster Vandervis, Janellle Harper, Tyera Lentz, Jackson Newton, Dilaxshy Sivagurunathan, Christopher Speirs, Vanessa Vermeulen, Hanqing Zhao There are many lost landscapes in our cities which have potential and Winnipeg is no exception.

By classifying each landscape type into a mosaic of industrial, green space, residential, corridors, commercial, and water bodies we were able to discern patterns within the urban fabric.

Forest Field Water Bodies Industrial

Large Lot

Streets Railways Hydrolines

We can see the river, running through is the most complete corridor in the city and so could be utilized for transportation and/or a protected ecological corridor. The industrial space takes a larger footprint in the city, opportunities lie there to encourage more ecologically sound ways of managing stormwater.

This maps sets the stage for further investigation into large scale urban projects in Winnipeg.

Bike Bar Studio 5: Possible Urbanism(s) Instructor _Jean Trottier October-December 2015 Mobile food vendors are becoming a common sight, especially in the summer. What would a patio, built specifically for the temporary nature of the mobile food vendors look like?

Designed with bicycle based food vendors and commuter cyclists in mind, the Bike Bar promotes quick and easy access for people on bicycles, while attempting to improve the cyclist experience while using the patio. The Bike Bar is more than just a bike rack, the Bike Bar disrupts the morning commute as little as possible - much like how a drive through is preferred by some drivers, over parking and entering the establishment.

Possible Bike Parking Unit Stand with Shelf/Bar

Possible Bike Parking Unit Two Wheel Stand

Street Furniture Movable street furniture based on the idea that cyclists should have more options for more scenarios than locking up and leaving their bicycles to do activities elsewhere, sometimes a cyclist needs to stand their bike up for only a short time. Some times, cyclists need options.

Materials The counter and bike bar are built with a concrete base unit, meant to blend in with the asphalt road surface moreso than the wooded top which is chosen for the comfort of people leaning against it.

Parking for Multiple Bicycles with Bench Unit

Possible Bike Parking Unit Bench with Bike Parking

Many colours of chalk let people write their suggestions and observations in different colours

The Bike Park Park(ing) Day Competition Summer 2016

Drawing inspiration from the questions raised throughout the Bike Bar project, the Bike Park was born. The Bike Park is a demonstration on how narrow minded cities have grown accustom to viewing the solution to bike parking, when in fact many cyclists can attest that the solutions usually cannot accommodate the need.

There are many different reasons why a cyclist may want to park - and lock - their bike. Long term day storage (8-10+ hours) is only one scenario, other needs include short term convenience parking, a place to lean for hands-free tasks, and make-shift seating.

The mandatory fencing between the road and the bike park doubles as a map which passersbys can write and draw on, providing anecdotal information on Winnipeg’s bike infrastructure as it is currently. The result was a ever changing collection of the collective memory of a sample of the downtown Winnipeg population, revealing the good, the bad, and the ugly in regards to Winnipeg’s bicycle infrastructure as seen by the people.

The bench itself was well used by people as they stopped to chat

Bikes could be locked behind the bench

City Map

Bench Seating for People Without Bicycles

Movable/Placed Anywhere

Bike Parking with Seating for Cyclists at a Counter

View from the Point Studio 6: Emergent Futures Instructor _Alan Tate + Rob Zonneveld March 2016

Winnipeg has seen a departure from the rivers in the past few decades. Many see the rivers as polluted after-thoughts that the city is responsible for and no one is taking ownership. Meanwhile, as we experience increased flooding events we further distance ourselves.

We have forgotten the boons the river once brought. A means of transportation, recreation, and an ecological wonder.

South Point Douglas, the site of some of the worst flood events, provides something we are not accustom to in the prairie landscape - a view of the city.

Enhancing this, while emphasizing the relationship to the river could be the first step in reigniting a passion to be once again the ‘River City’.

Using plants native to the Riverbottom forest ecosystem, this highly contaminated area could be rehabilitated and provide necessary flood protection in one of the most vulnerable areas of the city.

Celebrate the View By enhancing the views, and framing them with tall cottonwoods and fluffy willows, there emerges an opportunity to reintegrate the urban forest, building off of the forest along the Seine. The forest along the point may help with bank stabilization as well as help contain some of the pollutants which run off the industrial site in the area through phytoremediation. Re-establishing a forest also benefits the area by lessening the severity of flood events on the point, as the trees along the edge can absorb the pressure of yearly flooding and still thrive. All while providing new and exciting views of the river and downtown district of Winnipeg.

quick sketches with oil pastels depicting scenes available to people along the river bank - nature in the centre of the city

Table for 1200 More StorefrontMB Competition (First Place Winning Entry) May 2016

Group Project completed with Joseph Pilapil Hands ON. Ways of printing and distributing have become automated practices, the hands-on approach lost to time. The art of screen printing, documentary drawing, hand lettering, and film development lost to a digital age, where most of the process can be done in a short amount of time, and every replication is exactly the same, without flaws.

Our philosophy embraces the flaws, the differences in each production that makes the copies originals in their own right, the art and our love of hand-making drove us to demonstrate how quality and experience changes when you take the hands-on approach.

Dinner guests were invited to take their own pictures, letting them develop in paper pouches before clipping them to the wires above the table. The result is an evolving documentation of the event, during the event itself.

The attendees, fascinated with the process, became willing and eager participants in the creation of the time line.

Almost all elements were hand drawn and screen printed onto the table.

Photos were clipped to the wires above the table after developing, which added to the anticipation.

Dinner guests picked each spot for every individual Polaroid, adding another element of unpredictability.

Some of the packs of film turned out to be expired, creating a happy accident and a dialogue on the availability of film today

Authors, Various (Untitled) L-R: Table 109, Table 109, Table 109, Table 108, Dinner Guests

Above “Roller Girl” Emily Sinclair. Winnipeg, 2015 (Downtown Winnipeg Biz Flashfest Gallery at Portage Place, October 2015) Left In Camera Double Exposure Experiment Olympus Trip35, 200iso Opposite “Portage at Sunset” Emily Sinclair. Winnipeg, 2015 (2nd Place, MALA/LASA Photo Competition, March 2016)

Thank You. For further questions, please contact me at eesinclair93@gmail.com