Ezra Saunders Architecture Portfolio University of Waterloo

EZRA SAUNDERS PORTFOLIO 2021

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Children’s Librar y

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Streetscape

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Winter Pavilion

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Tensile Byway

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The Lantern House

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HELLO! My name is Ezra Saunders and I am a second year architecture student at the University of Waterloo.

My interests explore the connection between architecture, the environment, and well-being. I enjoy designing spaces with key experiential moments that connect a person to the surrounding architecture.

I look forward to speaking with you!

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EZRA SAUNDERS

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

esaunder@uwaterloo.ca (403)926-8333

• Strong design skills gained through collaborative and individual creative projects at the University of Waterloo and the Alberta University of the Arts • Efficient communication and leadership skills gained through work experience • Graphic skills developed through work and courses

EXPERIENCE SKILLS Rhinoceros 2D and 3D Sketch-Up AutoCad Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Lightroom Enscape Model Making Laser Cutter Microsoft Office Miro MS Teams Zoom Webex

CITY PLANNING CAMP PROGRAM DEVELOPER AND INSTRUCTOR 2021 May-Aug

The University of Calgary Calgary, AB • Successfully designed city planning and architecture projects to engage youth aged 7-16 in design.

• Enthusiastically taught youth the basics of architecture and city planning • Coordinated weekly mentorship videos to inspire the youth • Smoothly executed, planned, scheduled, and budgeted the camp

2020 Jan-Oct

BARISTA & ROASTERY EMPLOYEE Rooftop Roasters Fernie, BC • Efficiently tested, weighed, bagged, and shipped Rooftop coffee and signature blends to maximize • Thrived in a fast-passed cafe environment, adapting to different positions to ensure smooth running of the cafe • Engaged with customers while preparing food and drinks to create a positive experience.

AWARDS 2017-2020 2021 EXCELLENT ACADEMIC STANDING

University of Waterloo

• As part of a 2-8 person coaching team, coached U10-U12 alpine ski racers on the ski hill and over the summer to improve athlete’s skills.

• Provided ongoing support and encouragement to athletes while creating a safe environment for athletes to thrive in

2021 MERIT SCHOLARSHIP

University of Waterloo 2019

ALPINE SKI RACING COACH Fernie Alpine Ski Team Fernie, BC

3 YEAR HONOUR ROLL Crescent Heights High School

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First aid and CPR certified Canada Red Cross

INTERESTS I am a tea lover, music history enthusiast, and pianist. If I am not working on a piece of art or design project, I am likely outdoors and in motion.

I love downhill and cross-country skiing, running, swimming, and kayaking.

EDUCATION 2020-Present

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES, HONOURS The University of Waterloo School of Architecture Cambridge, ON

2018-2019

DUAL CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY COURSES Design Fundamentals and 3D Digital Design Alberta University of the Arts Calgary, AB 5

VISUAL CONTINUIT Y CHILDREN’S LIBRARY Displayed at the 2021 CASA RAIC Showcase Course • 1B Studio Supervisor • Cameron Parkin Location • Toronto, ON Skills • Rhino, Illustrator, Enscape Located just off of the Don River Parkway in Toronto, Ontario, the Visual Continuity Children’s Library establishes relationships with adjacent park and engages with unique site conditions. Defining a library as a place to learn and explore, this library provides children the opportunity to learn through eco-based library programing and indoor/outdoor experiences. The design is highly influenced by the interaction with the adjacent park and relationship to local schools. Consistent with the park typology, organic shaped green spaces and program “blobs” can be observed throughout the library. The library interior provides a dynamic space where one can continue to feel connected to the outdoor environment through visual connections. In addition to the typical library programming, a garden tool library is also included to further the eco-based learning objective. The library utilizes sustainable building materials and practices including the use of rammed earth walls, mass timber construction with bolted connections, and a green roof.

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Ground Floor Plan

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Upper Floor Green Roof

8 Indoor/Outdoor “Blob” Typology

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ST R E E T S CA P E ADAPTIVE REUSE HIGH RISE Course • 2A Studio Supervisor • Rick Haldenby Location • Kitchener, ON Skills • Rhino, Illustrator, Laser Cutter, Physical Modeling This project explores adaptive reuse to redesign an existing post war high rise in Kitchener. The existing high-rise houses approximately 22 people per floor. For this project, each student was assigned two half floors to redesign and increase the population by 1.5 times the original.

“Streetscape” challenges the concept of living in a space disconnected from the ground as is the typical high-rise living experience. A large communal space or “street” spans across the floor to encourage interaction between residents.

Each unit has a distinct entrance with a window facing the interior street to enhance the feeling of being on a street. The triangulated facade system is focused on creating spaces for residents to experience the outdoors while creating variation in directional light. Typical high rises aim sightlines in one direction that may, in time, be obscured by another high rise. “Streetscape” creates a unique ground condition for healthy habitation on any level of the high rise.

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Private Units

“The Street” Communal Spaces

Materiality Relocated Existing Brick Facade Green Wall Private Units

Ceramic Cladding Panels

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Living room

Dining/Kitchen

Garden

The units create a dynamic and natural streetscape within the communal spaces. The unit lengths respond to the existing sheer walls. The longest unit is the length of the longest sheer wall. The second longest unit is the length of the second longest sheer wall. The shortest unit is the length of the shortest sheer wall, and the second shortest unit fits proportionally between the smallest and second longest units. Variation in the unit lengths creates pockets of usable space within the living hallway.

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WINTER PAVILION ON A MULTI USE TRAIL Course • 1B Studio Supervisor • Cameron Parkin Location • Fernie, BC Skills • Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator

The initial phase of this project involved transforming a series of planes within an organizational sytstem to create a dynamic model. The second phase of the project consisted of modifying the model to be transformed into a pavilion that best suits a site and program.

Located in a clearing along a multi-use cross-country ski and snowshoe trail 8km from Fernie BC, this pavilion is designed to frame views of the mountains and provide protection from wind and snow. With strong southerly winds during the winter, the pavilion provides a place to rest, eat, gather, and explore.

The Winter Pavilion reuses wood that is cleared for forest fire prevention in the area and is manually transported to the site and constructed by hand in this remote location.

A variety of knots are used to construct the pavilion. The use of local and compostable materials ensures that the Winter Pavilion will have a limited impact on the site and be unobtrusive in an interesting landscape.

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Fernie, BC

Pavilion

Fernie Ski Hill

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Bundles of Western Larch, Douglas Fir, Lodgepole Pine, and Juniper branches.

Bundles secured every 1m with clove hitch knots.

Bundles secured together with a sheer lash knot.

Larger Western Larch, Douglas Fir, and Juniper branches.

Horizontal and vertical pieces secured with diagonal lash knots.

Horizontal beams connected to each-other with rolling hitch knots.

Overlapping tree bark from a variety of local trees.

Bark attached to horizontal beams with screws.

Panels secured together with an additional sheer lash knot.

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THE TENSILE BY WAY ART AND MUSIC MARKET Course • Building Construction and Digital Media Supervisor • Cameron Parkin & Justin Breg Location • Hamilton, ON Skills • Rhino, Enscape, Photoshop, Illustrator Collaborators • Brianna Klei & Ellie Kingsley The Tensile Byway is a site of community activation and organization centered around a steel canopy situated on an underused parking lot in a highly utilized pedestrian area in Hamilton, Ontario. This market structure is designed to facilitate the creating and the sharing of art and entertainment. This canopy market organizes programs through the arrangement of vertical and horizontal panels to create a spatial and visual sequence.

The structure mimics an organic canopy by suspending perforated steel plates through a tensile connected structure to a steel column grid. Gaps within the steel grid offer an opportunity for an expanded space for large programmatic activities and further express the capabilities of steel in tension. The experience of the market is one of tension, expansion versus compression, elevation, and movement.

Tensile Byway Parking Farmer’s Market City Hall Housing Local Businesses

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Roof Structure Connections Detail:

-100mm x 150mm w section steel beam -11mm flat ridge bracket -3/8 ” Galvanized steel bolt

-Spider connection attached to glass panels welded onto w section intersections

-50mm x 75mm w section steel beam welded to -100mm x 150mm w section steel beam -11mm Angle iron steel bracket -3/8 ” Galvanized steel bolt

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-11mm middle connection plate -Steel tensile cable pin connection -19.05mm (3/8”) diameter steel cable -3/8 ” Galvanized steel bolt

-11mm thick Cor-Ten steel sheet -3/8 ” Galvanized steel bolt -Steel tensile cable pin connection -19.05mm (3/8”) diameter steel cable

-16mm thick mounted bracket -Steel tensile cable pin connection -19.05mm (3/8”) diameter steel cable -3/8 ” Galvanized steel bolt

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THE LANTERN HOUSE A HOME FOR GATHERING Featured on the Waterloo Architecture Instagram page and website Course • 1A Studio Supervisor • Fiona Lim Tung Location • Cambridge, ON Skills • Rhino, Illustrator

Located on a sloped site close to the Grand River in Cambridge, Ontario, The Lantern House is aimed to be an extension of a neighboring youth shelter and positioned with three other houses on the property. Through exploration of mycelium wall panels, light, and the distinction between private and communal spaces, the Lantern House is focused on an open central space that encourages interaction and building of community. The oblong openings in the mycelium panels are derived from weaving together the topographic lines that frame the house.

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The triple layer facade system is formed with three sepa provides structure and insulation whereas the other two laye provide a unique experience from the street. Youth who are shaped openings in the facade. The interior layer explored experimental sound insulation an Overladed Site Contour Lines

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Perforations in the layered facade create opportunities for residents to interact with shadows and light as they experience movement of light throughout the day.

Interior Morning Shadow Projections

Interior Afternoon Shadow Projections

Exterior Shadow Projections at Night 1m

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THANK YOU! I look forward to speaking with you. esaunder@uwaterloo.ca

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