Architecture Portfolio | 2019-2023

P O R T F O L I O GARETH C. DORSCHEID SELECTED WORKS 2019 - 2023

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CONTENTS

0 1 . CARPENTER HOUSE

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0 2 . URBAN THRESHOLD

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0 3 . MODULAR

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0 4 . JUXTAPOSED COMMONS 0 5 . L A R G E R O O F H O U S E

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CARPENTER HOUSE * small scale work-live home design in Kensington Market Fall 2022 ARC361 | Architecture Studio III Petros Babasikas

The Carpenter House was designed around the needs of a fictitious household on a small plot of land located in Kensington Market, Toronto; the primary concern was achieving a comfortable work-life balance in a tiny space for a carpenter and their partner.

The project seeks to formulate the spacial dynamics in a way that one family member could work in the noisy

woodshop while the other relaxes, undisturbed by loud tools and customers.

This problem was overcome by delineating every activity in the house within a spectrum of work and relaxation, creating a hierarchy of rooms where one can transcend the work space as they move upwards in the home towards more intimate and relaxing spaces.

LEFT: Design iterations & parti diagram RIGHT: Northwest Isometric

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TOP: site plan BOTTOM: west site elevation

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LEFT: 1:100 Site Model RIGHT: 1:20 Model

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SPREAD: View from Augusta Ave.

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URBAN THRESHOLD * 300 bed student residence ushering users between urbanity and naturality Winter 2023 ARC362 | Architecture Studio IV Jon Cummings

The Urban Threshold Student Residence is a design informed by it’s location and surrounding context. Located immediately adjacent to the Trinity College building and Philosopher’s Walk, the design seeks to capitalize on it’s surroundings without presenting itself as an obtrusive structure.

The design philosophy was centered around the structure serving as

a threshold between Toronto’s urbanity and naturality, with the solarium and courtyard providing a gradient between the two. This is complimented by a program where students are given a myriad of spaces to study and socialize in and around the solarium, creating a dynamic ecosystem within the student residence.

LEFT: Threshold, Program, and Solar Diagrams RIGHT: Vignette of Solarium

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South Facade Elevation

Ground Floor Plan

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Northwest Isometric

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SPREAD: East Section Perspective

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LEFT: Graduate Bedroom Vignette RIGHT: Isometric Cutaway & Plan View

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SPREAD: View from Devonshire Pl.

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THE MODULAR LANEWAY * community oriented design for laneway homes Winter 2021 ARC200 | Drawing & Representation Michael Piper

Begining with an analysis of existing Yellow Belt homes in Toronto and narrowing in on the underutilized spatial opportunities provided in their laneways, the Modular Laneway is proposing the elements required to conceive thriving communites complete with small bussinesses and recreational areas

that can be slotted in, as demand requires, to these laneway voids. This laneway design suggests that implementing a community oriented approach, where commercial and recreational activities are fluid with residential spaces, creates a more sustainable and cohesive neighborhood.

SPREAD: focus area of analysis and design proposal in Toronto

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SPREAD: isometric full-bleed of modular laneway community

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JUXTAPOSED COMMONS * spatial transition determined by student space-time Fall 2020 ARC201 | Design Studio II Miles Gertler

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The Juxtaposed Commons is based upon the principal idea that architecture should not shape its users movements through space and time, but instead the users should shape the architecture.

The design is focused on creating a massing that juxtaposes the static and dynamic movements through the commons. Thus, a flowing multi-level corridor dynamically delivers students to the respective static quarters of the

design in a fashion that resembles the irregular movement that one makes while tarrying through an art gallery or strolling through a garden.

The juxtaposition of static and dynamic movements also emboddies itself in the landscape design where visitors are given several direct vectors through the site, while being invited to wander off of that vector into green spaces of relaxation and contemplation.

LEFT: Design iterations & parti diagram RIGHT: Northeast Isometric

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LEFT: Site Plan RIGHT: East & West Section Perspective

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SPREAD: View from Devonshire Pl.

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LARGE ROOF HOUSE COMPETITION * a neo-metabolic framework for post-catastophre architecture Summer 2023 The 50th Nisshin Kogyo Architectural Design Competition Group Members: Gareth Dorscheid, Gavin Kim, Michell Mak, Yichen Zhang

Interested in post-catastrophe architecture, our competition group approached this project with the idea that a large roof could be made up of many small modular edifices that accumulate to create and heal a community.

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was to propose a nomadic structure that would intentionally decay once the community was equip to re-house themselves. We called this scheme the ‘neo-metabolism’ due to the manner in which materials are recycled into the structures and the cyclical needs of catastrophe response techniques.

create a permanent structure, instead it

*Concept by Mitchell Mak with Gareth, Gavin, & Yichen | *Renders by Gareth Dorscheid | *Drawings by Gavin Kim | *3D Models by Yichen Zhang

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