Hannah Gascon Architecture Portfolio

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Hannah Gascon Undergraduate Architectural Studies Portfolio 2019-2023 hgascon@laurentian.ca (705)-923-5597
Sudbury’s Downtown Housing How the Birch Tree Got Its Burns Junction House Table of Contents 06 08 10
Find Your Way The Spine L’Éponge 14 16 18

Urban Analysis «Downtown Housing»

Group Project 4th year

Team Members: Hannah Gascon, Jason Pressé, Jennavieve Hinton-Canard, Jules Robert

This was an in depth analysis of the housing typologies found around the Downtown Sudbury area. Below are drawings I contributed showcasing the various textures, shapes and lively hoods of selected “rough” neighbourhoods Downtown Sudbury. The analysis was done through walking, observing, drawing & speculating in the proposed sites. Through this practice, we were able to identify 4 frames; Urban Pattern, Urban Form, Urban Texture & Urban Life.

Commercial Site Middle-class Residences Low Density High Density Site
[EN]

Il s’agissait d’une analyse approfondie des typologies de logements que l’on trouve dans le centre-ville de Sudbury. Vous trouverez ci-dessous les dessins que j’ai réalisés pour illustrer les différentes textures, formes et hottes animées de certains quartiers “ bruts “ du centre-ville de Sudbury. L’analyse s’est faite en marchant, en observant, en dessinant et en spéculant sur les sites proposés. Grâce à cette pratique, nous avons pu identifier 4 cadres : le modèle urbain, la forme urbaine, la texture urbaine et la vie urbaine.

Site Six Mixed : Commercial and Low-Income Residences
Site One Commercial
Lower-class Residences
[FR] T H S W A S N O T M Y P L A N

Inhabitable Wall «How the Birch Tree Got Its Burns»

Group Project

4th year

This project is a retelling of the Ojibwe legend of how the birch tree got its burns. By casting concrete with local birch bark, we were able to create imprints and cutouts within the slab of concrete. Our interpretation includes a family playing in this “Inhabitable Wall” as if they are Wanaboozhoo, the legend in the story, hiding from the Thunderbird.

Ce projet est un reprise de la légende Ojibwé dont comment le bouleau a obtenu ses marques. En coulant du béton avec de l’écorce de bouleau, nous avons pu créer des empreintes et des cavernes dans le béton. Notre interprétation comprend une famille jouant dans ce “mur habitable” comme s’ils étaient Wanaboozhoo, la légende de l’histoire, se cachant du Thunderbird.

Team Members: Hannah Gascon, Andrea Goulais, Jennavieve Hinton-Canard
[EN] [FR]

Team Members: Hannah Gascon, Jason Pressé

Junction House is a residential building aimed to provide comfortable living spaces for young single parents through subsidized units. To make inhabitants feel as a part of a larger community and adapt to a co-living lifestyle, we have designed interventions such as areas of social gathering placed throughout the building layout, and visual community connections from building to building. In order to create a connection between our two masses, we have designed specific paths which flow through our entire building, acting as the current of a river which is constantly flowing. Our public programs are meshed together through the use of this curvilinear path, as well as curvilinear walls which direct the public through these spaces.

Multi-Use Residential «Junction House»
Group Project 4th year
STEEL STRUCTURE COMMUNITY SPACE
SPACES STONE PATHS WOODEN CLADDING The large lobby/community gathering area in our building is meant to be a middle ground for both the low cost subsidized housing and the rentable apartments. Given that the area is located around an existing building, its ceiling height encapsulates a grand feeling. In order to allow this space to have such high ceilings, large 5ft trusses are placed below the roof decking, all being held by multiple steel I-beams, giving a contrasting look to the natural wood cladding. This large “glass box” acts as a social gathering space, a lobby, and a restaurant area, allin-all creating a large social hub. The existing Pasta E Vino restaurant remains on the interior of this space, with a new patio added, allowing for indoor/outdoor seating in di erent seasons. The gathering space provides access to all of the public programs in our building, including the thrift store, local grocery store, daycare, and laundry services. A long stone path is located on the concrete floors, connecting to both sides of the building’s exterior urban spaces. Our structure is mostly made of mass timber. In order to create load-bearing walls, we have decided to utilize 5-ply CLT panels in order to reduce the amount of columns and post-beam systems throughout our structural grids. Given that the interior walls are made of wood, we have decided to continue this language on the outside of our building with wooden cladding. This natural look also contrasts the industrial feeling of our steel gathering space. The first three floors of our housing floors (floors 2, 3 & 4) all have large mezzanine spaces at the end of their hallways, which look down into the large community area in the middle of our building. These mezzanines are located on both the subsidized side, and the rentable unit side, allowing for both building members to have a connection through our large social hub, avoiding any isolation. Our building has a main entrance on both the Paris street facade, and the Brian McKee lane facade, given that our main social hub is located in the center of our two masses. In order to create a visual connection and cohesive language from both outdoor urban spaces, we have designed stone paths that pass through most of our site, leading both the public and our building’s inhabitants to their destinations.
MEZZANINE
PERSPECTIVE SECTION
[EN]

Junction House est un projet résidentiel destiné à offrir des espaces confortables aux jeunes parents, grâce à des logements subventionnés. Pour que les habitants se sentent comme être partie d’une communauté et s’adaptent à un style de vie en commun, nous avons conçu des interventions telles que des zones de rassemblement social placées dans l’ensemble du bâtiment, et des connexions communautaires visuelles d’un bâtiment à l’autre. Afin de créer une connexion entre nos deux masses, nous avons conçu des chemins spécifiques qui traversent l’ensemble de notre bâtiment, agissant comme le courant d’une rivière qui coule en permanence. Nos programmes publics sont reliés entre eux par l’utilisation de ce chemin curviligne, ainsi que par des murs curvilignes qui dirigent le public à travers ces espaces.

[FR]

Multi-Use Residential «Junction House»

Continued.

[EN]

In order to help with subsidizing the apartments, the building is oriented to take advantage of passive heating and cooling strategies as well as having small modular stacked units.

Afin d’aider à subventionner les appartements, le bâtiment est orienté de manière à tirer parti de stratégies passives et à proposer de petites unités modulaires.

South Section 1:100 Winter

South Section 1:100

Summer

Surrounding trees block harsh winter winds creating a comfortable microclimate Surrounding trees block prevailing winds creating small microclimate between trees and building Decideous and Coniferous trees provide shading for interior spaces to prevent overheating Coniferous trees provide shading for interior spaces to prevent overheating
[FR]

UNIT STACKING CHART

Circulation (Stairs & Elevators)

2-3 Bed Units (Family Units)

1 Bed Units (Studio Units)

Shared Hallway

Shared Spaces

Laundromat

Thrift Store

Grocery Store

Daycare

Large windows provide natural daylighting for apartment units

Thermal Mass absorbs heat from the heat during crucial times of the day and releases it

South Section 1:100 Winter

Green roof provides thermal comfort/cooling and reect heat from the sun

Large

South Section 1:100

Summer

Patios above units provide solar shading windows provide natural daylighting for apartment units
Green roof provides good water/snow drainage and insulation
Parking Garage Entrance/Exit

Daycare «Find Your Way»

Adaptive Re-Use Project 3rd year

This project focused on wayfinding. A colourful wayfinding system will be introduced through floor tiles. These tiles will disperse from the entrance throughout both floors leading to each of the daycare suites. Each colour is associated to a different age group and daycare suite. The children could essentially maneuvre around the building without getting lost just by simply following the coloured floor tiles. This will help for the children to develop their confidence and independence.

N N 1:100 1:100 5 6
[EN]

Ce projet s'est beaucoup concentré sur l'orientation. Un système d'orientation coloré sera mis en place par les tuiles de sol. Ces tuiles seront dispersées à partir de l'entrée et mèneront à chacune des suites et étages. Chaque couleur est associée à un groupe d'âge différent et à une suite de garderie. Les enfants pourront essentiellement se déplacer dans le bâtiment sans se perdre en suivant les couleurs placés sur le plancher. Cela les aidera à développer leur confiance et leur indépendance.

[FR]

Bench Design «The Spine»

Design Build Group Project

3rd year

The concept for the bench was based around scaffolding. Downtown Sudbury is often occupied by construction with scaffolding lining the streets. With this said, our group wanted to put an urban spin on scaffolding. Allowing pedestrians to interact and use scaffolding that they might normally consider “ugly” or simply ignore it, will permit them to extend their stay and enjoyment in the downtown centre.

Le concept du banc était basé sur un échafaudage. Le centre-ville de Sudbury est souvent occupé par des constructions avec des échafaudages bordant les rues. Cela dit, notre groupe a voulu donner une tournure urbaine aux échafaudages. Permettre aux piétons d’interagir et d’utiliser des échafaudages qu’ils normalement ignorerait, leur permettra de prolonger leur séjour et leur plaisir au centre-ville.

Zack Desormiers Design Perspective
Team Members: Hannah Gascon, Andrea Goulais, Justine Dupont, Jason Pressé, Zackaris Desormiers, Dominique Labelle, Alain Heurtelou
[FR] [EN]
Design Build 2022
Desormiers Sydney Dupuis
Perspective Drawing

Ice Structure «L’Éponge»

Group Project 1st year

Our concept for the structure began with a sponge. Since the structure would be used by the community to sit on to take a rest or put on their skates or simply just to admire the view, we wanted this wooden structure to fit to people’s bodies. With this said, we began to think of the bends and curves that the structure on ice could take and collaboratively landed on an asymmetric cut out curvilinear shape. There is also a part that sticks out, bringing it to the level of a bar on one side and can be used as a back rest on the other.

Members:

Notre concept pour la structure a commencé avec une éponge. Comme la structure serait utilisée par la communauté pour s’asseoir, se reposer, mettre ses patins ou simplement admirer la vue, nous voulions que cette structure en bois s’adapte au corps des gens. Ceci étant dit, nous avons commencé à réfléchir aux courbes que pourrait prendre la structure sur la glace et nous sommes tombés, en collaboration, sur une forme curviligne asymétrique découpée. Il y a également une partie qui dépasse, ce qui la porte au niveau d’une barre d’un côté et qui peut être utilisée comme dossier de l’autre côté.

[FR] [EN]
Team Hannah Gascon, Andrea Goulais, Justine Dupont, Jason Pressé, Zackaris Desormiers, Dominique Labelle, Emma Atter, Alain Heurtelou, Griffin Upton, Irene Durot, Josée Paquette
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