Architectural Technologist - Portfolio

HELLO! My name is Gurleen Gosal. This portfolio is a collection of work throughout my academic years. As such, it is hefty. Please, peruse. See you on the other side.

TABLE OF CONTENTS The Experiments

The Warehouse

Rolcou

Mixed Residential/Retail

Wood Chair

OCADU

The Experiments As climate change looms over our heads, there is a need to switch to renewable energy. The top candidates are wind and solar energy but nuclear energy should not be overlooked.

This thesis explores the idea of +energy from waste”; exploring a design system that sustains itself through renewable energy.

Solar Site

The system is based on passive design strategies, renewable energy sources and recycled nuclear power to show that it is possible to sustain life.

Nuclear Site

Tommy Thompson ;ark, Toronto, .ntario

OCADU

Energy - Waste System

Buoy Line

Food starts at the Solar Site as it is grown in the greenhouse and is sent to the other sites. The food waste that is produced, comes back and is used as fertili"er for the ne!t bunch of crops.

Human Humanwaste wasteisis recycled recycledatatthe theNuclear Nuclear Site Siteasasthere thereare are multiple multiplebiogas biogasplants. plants.

The Thehuman humanwaste waste creates createselectricity electricitytoto use. use.

As nuclear power is generated more steadily than the other two, in times when they lack power, the energy from the Nuclear site will be sent over.

Passive Design Strategies Used Heating ones ones

Orient rooms with greatest heating needs to winter sun

Bu er Bu er ones ones

Thermal bu bu er er "ones between e!terior environment and spaces that need temperature control

Deep Sun

Staggering rooms so that they all receive sunlight in a thick plan

Cross Ventilation

Allows wind to travel through plan and cool it down

Direct Gain Rooms

Sunlight to come in through rooms to heat the thermally cooked mass

Night Cooled Mass

Washrooms

A mass used to take the heat from a room during the day and cooled at night

Green Roof

Used to reduce temperatures of roof surface and surrounding air

Mass Arrangement

Heavyweight materials used to store heat

Windbreaks

Areas that provide shelter from the wind

East - West Plan

To orient a plan to receive the ma!imum amount of sunlight

Sunspace

Areas to regulate thermal energy and transfer heat

OCADU

Solar

Restaurant

Public Room

Floor Plan

Section =ut

Greenhouse Patio

Greenhouse

Solar is an experiment around the use of solar energy and creating spaces around that idea. For example, the building is designed in a way that a visitor will always be reminded of what powers the building because of deep sun strategies as well as the greenhouse. Many passive design strategies are used around passive solar gain and so they are designed to be the most prominent such as thermal heat gain through the greenhouse.

The program of the building includes rooms for visitors to sleep, washrooms, a small restaurant and many places to sit, both on the interior and the exterior.

OCADU

Solar Energy Collection

Energy Usage

Building Integrated Photovoltaics

Biogas Waste System

Most amount Energy Usage Medium Energy Usage Least Energy Usage

Hydroponic Gardening System

Roof slanted to Winter Sun Greenhouse - Sunspace

Photovoltaic WindoK

OCADU

Nuclear

Restaurant

Walkway around SMR

Floor Plan

Nuclear is designed around the two small modular nuclear reactors.

This is so to make sure visitors will be confronted with the possibility of living near nuclear technology. The orientation of the buildings also make it harder to forget the main purpose of the site.

The program of the building includes rooms for visitors to sleep, washrooms, a small restaurant and many places to sit, both in the

Section Cut

Public Space

interior and the exterior.

OCADU

Main Design Strategy

ARC100 MSR Diagram

Window Placement

Electrical Generator Heat E change

Close Up Roof Slanted for Winter Sun Form highlighted to mitigate wind Small Modular Reactors (SMR)

Control Rods

Energy Usage Concrete

Heat E changer

Windows High Energy Usage Medium Energy Usage Low Energy Usage

Reactor an Containment Sodium

Pump Reactor Core

Human Scale

OCADU

Wind ‘Wind’ oocuses on tarnessinn enerny orom ind tur inese Tte stape oo tte uildinn refects tte enerny sourcee Due to tte stape oo tte uildinnsk it ofers a ind reack creatinn poccets oo outdoor spacee

First foor

Section Cut

Second Floor

3D Perspective

Roootop Walc ay

Inner Courtyards

Restaurant

OCADU

Window Placement

Energy Usage

Main 9esign Strategy

WindFreays Roof Slanted for Winter Sun

Wind 9irection ear

Windows

Wind Energy 9iagram High Energy Usage Medium Energy Usage Low Energy Usage

Wind GurFine

Charge Controller

Battery

Inverter

GBC

The Warehouse An exercise in a single story warehouse with a two storey ofce. The warehouse is curtain wall construction on a steel structure. This project was done with a partner.

I’ve put in some of my partner’s pieces for clarity.

Site somewhere in Toronto, Ont

GBC

Foundation Plan - Partner

Roof Plan

Ground Floor Plan

Sefond Floor lffe - -all lut Plan

Sefond Floor Plan - Partner

GBC

Elevations - Partner

West Elevation

North--o,th -e.tion

North Elevation

GBC

Section Detail

Wall Section (),0()

Wall Section (Fx8)

Plan Detail

Plan Detail

Section Detail

GBC

Roleof

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Tollkeeper’s Park, Toronto, Ont

GBC

GBC

Floor Plan

5 4 3

2

6

North Elevation

7

9 1

8

East Elevation

1

Gallery

6

Storage Space

2

Univ. W/C

7

Vestibule

3

Mechanical Room

8

Smaller Storage Space

4

Stu9io

9

Patio

5

Kitchenette

South Elevation

West Elevation

GBC

1 2

4

3

1

Section 1

1

Gallery

3

Mechanical Room

2

Univ. W/C

4

Studio

Section 2

Interior Perspective

1

Gallery

Exterior Perspective

MgO Panel Board Recycled Galvanized Steel Roof Pine Barnwood Reclaimed Siding and Paneling >with Cork Insulation) MgO Panel Board

Tripe Glazed Thermally Broken Aluminum Frame Windows

Recycled Wood Shingles CMU Block

Recycled Cork Tiles

GBC

Rainwater Collection

Heatpump (Heating/Cooling)

Biogas Electricity

POWER DRAWN FROM TESLA POWERBANK

RAINWATER

RAINWATER

LEADER

TANK

PUMP

WATER FILTER

FIXTURES TOILET

Light Shelves

HOMEBIOGAS

COMBUSTION

ANAEROBIC DIGESTER

ENGINE

Passive entilation

Cool air comes in through lower windows on

TESLA POWERBANK

Passive Heating

Winter Sun

Southwest Side and leaves heated via higher Light Shelves

Windows on Roo

uup windows on northeast side

Summer Sun

GBC

Mixed Reridential/ Retail Thir project war done in a group of fours It’r a three rtorey building that har retail on the frrt rtorey and reridential on the other two foorrs

Somewhere in Toronto, Ont

GBC

Stacked Washer/Dryer

Elevator

Dryer Vent

OBC Matrix

Garbage Chute Door

Key Block Plan

Garbage Chute

GBC

Third Floor Plan - Group mate

Ground Floor Plan

Parking Floor Plan - Group mate

Second Floor Plan - Group mate

Roof Plan - Group mate

GBC

South Elevation - Group mate

East Elevation - Group mate

North Elevation West Elevation - Group mate

Building Section E/W Hhrough Stair - Group mate

Building Section N/S Looking East - Group mate

Building Section - E/W Looking South

Building Section N/S Looking West - Group mate

GBC

Receiving Area Detail Plan

Exterior Wall at Second Floor

Wall Section (Grid 10.1)

Parapet Detail

GBC

Second Floor Framing Plan

Framing Table

Non Architectural Work

OCADU

Chair The prompt for this chair was to create something that would hold the human body for a certain amount of time. This was done in Furniture Design class at OCADU, where we explored what furniture is. I challenged ‘a certain amount of time’ and created a chair that hosted someone for a second.

OCADU

This is the fnal product. t was done by bending thin veneers of wood via three diferent molds to achieve variety in the shapes. The chair legs at the bottom serve to hold up the waves and also play with the idea that this is a chair.

Thank you :) Gurleen K Gosal gurleen.gosal@georgebrown.ca