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Editor Elsa Lam explores how the evolution of smart home devices could have positive impacts on residential architecture.

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Patkau Architects and Brook McIlroy to design Thunder Bay Art Gallery; first phase of North America’s largest hospital nears completion in Montreal; remembering Ted Teshima.

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23 AIMING HIGHER New architectural approaches to post-secondary education are evident in the Ryerson ServiceHub by Gow Hastings Architects, Orchard Commons residence and academic space by Perkins+Will, University College of the North’s Thompson campus

by Architecture49, and the Alouette-UQAC University Building by BGLA Architecture + Design Urbain. TEXT Pamela Young

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A comprehensive post-occupancy study of Bridgepoint Active Healthcare shows the beneficial effects of patient-centred design, reports study co-author Cheryl Atkinson.

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Archaeology of the Digital at the CCA in Montreal; National Trust heritage conference in Hamilton; Pop/Can/Crit symposium in Ottawa.

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A building in suburban Toronto brings together a panoply of seniors-oriented community and healthcare services under a single roof. TEXT Joanne Lam

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THE NATIONAL REVIEW OF DESIGN AND PRACTICE / THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE RAIC

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­­EDITOR ELSA LAM, MRAIC ART DIRECTOR ROY GAIOT ASSISTANT EDITOR SHANNON MOORE EDITORIAL ADVISOR IAN CHODIKOFF, OAA, FRAIC CONTRIBUTING EDITORS ANNMARIE ADAMS, FRAIC ODILE HÉNAULT DOUGLAS MACLEOD, NCARB, MRAIC

Kitted Out Home Home automation has been around for a long time. We take for granted conveniences like programmable thermostats, automatic garage door openers, and motion-sensing outdoor lights. But in the era of the “internet of things”, these technologies have taken on new dimensions.

This summer, my husband and I signed up for a pilot “smart” rain barrel that automatically empties before a storm to free up capacity.

A friend recently visited an Airbnb where their smartphone—installed with a specific app— acted as the housekey. Our neighbour’s kid reported “seeing us” getting their mail while they were on vacation. It turns out they have a motion sensing camera that e-mails them whenever there’s activity on their front porch.

The latest development is voice-activated home devices. A few months ago, my tech-forward cousin installed Amazon’s virtual assistant in his New York City apartment. A hub that includes a microphone and speaker, Echo allows you to ask “Alexa” to adjust the lighting, check the weather, play music, and buy things from Amazon (my cousin accidentally ordered a second Echo while telling a visitor about the setup).

Small things, perhaps—but while on vacation, he and his wife found that they “missed Alexa.”

Apple’s HomeKit system can perform similar functions using Siri. This fall, the company upped the ante by integrating its Home app in the iPhone operating system, and unveiling a lineup of nearly 100 compatible devices.

Beyond lights, locks and thermostats, Siri-enabled accessories now include window shades, video cameras, humidifiers, and more. All of the accessories have an encrypted hardware chip, ensuring security of access—an especial concern with door locks. Later this year, several developers, including Brookfield residential, will begin including many of these devices in new homes.

Adding to the magic, the system allows users to set up “scenes” of interconnected actions between devices. For instance, saying “good morning” to Siri could set off a cascade

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of activities—the heat turning on, blinds coming up, and a coffee pot connected by a smart plug starting to brew. Programs can also be triggered by location (the lights turn on and the door unlocks as you pull into your driveway), by sensors (a CO2 detector going off sends you an urgent text), or by time (the blinds close after dark).

How will the proliferation of smart home systems affect architecture? On an aesthetic level, a thoughtful integration of wirelessly controlled accessories could mean finally getting to banish switches and plugs to hidden locales, keeping residential walls pristinely clear.

The technology also offers possibilities for creating spaces that are more fully accessible to those with visual or physical impairments.

It would be a small step to include a broader range of environmental sensors into smart home systems, allowing them, like their commercial counterparts, to conserve energy in relation to sunlight and occupancy patterns.

During hot summer days, for instance, I’ll walk around my house and close the windows and blinds; once the sun goes down, I’ll turn on fans and open the windows to draw the cooler night air in. The time isn’t far off when this could happen automatically. In the morning rush to get out the door, there’s inevitably a frenzy of activity, in which lights are left on somewhere. The voice command “I’m heading out”—or the absence of movement for a specified period of time—could turn off all the lights and lock the doors, solving the issue.

The novelty may eventually wear off, but for the present, smart home devices are also just plain fun. They have an addictively collectable appeal—after fitting out the living room, how about the kitchen?

Best of all, they don’t talk back. I have to beg and wheedle for my husband to get out of bed to turn off the downstairs light at night.

When I ask Siri—presto, it’s done.

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PROJECTS Patkau Architects and Brook McIlroy to design Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

Following a three-year selection process, Patkau Architects in joint venture with Brook McIlroy Architects have won a commission to design a new art gallery in Thunder Bay. The gallery will be located on the waterfront in Tugboat Bay. Federal, provincial and municipal governments have announced a shared $2.2 million for its design.

Patkau Architects’ portfolio includes such landmarks as the Beaty Biodiversity Museum in Vancouver and the School of Art at the University of Manitoba. The firm plans to integrate the landscape of Thunder Bay into the new art gallery by establishing a design sensitive to the local context and culture.

Brook McIlroy Architects will oversee the project. Recently, founding principal Calvin Brook led a revitalization of Thunder Bay’s waterfront that received broad recognition in national and international award programs.

Partnerships with First Nations stakeholders comprise a strong focus of the firm, which has designed places that reflect indigenous culture and provide enhanced opportunities for these communities.

The preliminary design for the Thunder Bay Art Gallery will be released in the fall, with completion anticipated for 2019. www.patkau.ca

CannonDesign and NEUF architect(e)s nears completion of first phase of North America’s largest healthcare project.

After nearly a decade of work, CannonDesign and NEUF architect(e)s are nearing the completion of the first phase of the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), the largest healthcare construction project in North America.

The CHUM teaching hospital is also the largest public–private partnership healthcare project in Canada, and revitalizes an entire sector of Montreal’s urban core. The complex will include 772 single-bed patient rooms, 39 operating theatres and more than 400 clinics and examination rooms.

Beyond the logistical scope of merging three aging hospitals—St-Luc, Hôtel-Dieu and Notre-Dame—under a single roof, the CHUM project integrates social infrastructure and urban renewal mandates. The 22-storey complex, spanning over three million square feet and encompassing two full city blocks, will play an important role in regenerating the neglected east-end of Montreal’s downtown core, reconnecting the city’s urban fabric and anchoring the Quartier de

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ABOVE A rendering of the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, by CannonDesign and NEUF architect(e)s. The nearly completed first phase includes all clinical spaces.

la Santé, Montreal’s new healthcare district.

Following the project’s initiation in 2009, the team reconfigured the indicative design in order to accelerate development. Phase one, which is now nearing completion, will deliver the hospital’s core healthcare capabilities, including all patient rooms, operating theatres, diagnostic and therapeutics, as well as the oncology program. This leaves only offices, a conference centre and additional ambulatory spaces for phase two, to be completed in 2021.

Residents can thus start benefitting from the much-needed state-of-the-art healthcare infrastructure years sooner than anticipated.

To break down the massive scale of the project, the design team wove an undulating public space into the campus to make it as open, transparent and welcoming as possible.

The space connects entrances on all sides of the complex and enhances the urban f low.

The main entrance of the CHUM campus will include s a large inner courtyard, the Esplanade Jardin, where a contrasting copperclad theatre will serve as a visual reference to foster intuitive wayfinding.

shared townhouse-style units, around a private indoor street, that accommodate 50 youths.

They are permitted to live there for a year while receiving valuable support, life skills and employment training to transition to independent living.

The block dates back to 1837 when it served as the city’s St. Andrew’s Market. The property has worn many hats—playing home to a police station, library and community hall before its incarnation as an Art Deco-designed water treatment facility in 1932.

On the north side of the site, a new project called Waterworks will transform another section of the public utilities building into urban condos, a bountiful food hall and Toronto’s newest YMCA, all connected to the city’s St. Andrew’s Playground.

Designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects and spearheaded by MOD Developments and Woodcliffe Landmark Properties, the Waterworks project will preserve the monument’s rich Toronto origins, while also bringing a breath of fresh air to the presently abandoned section of the building.

Eva’s Phoenix opens, and Waterworks revitalization plans unveiled in Toronto.

World’s tallest timber building tops out in Vancouver.

Plans are taking shape for the transformation of the former St. Andrew’s Market site in the west end of downtown Toronto.

This September, a new facility for the nonprofit organization Eva’s Phoenix opened inside a section of a 1930s public utilities building on the site. Designed by LGA Architectural Partners, it offers transitional housing and training for homeless youth. The program includes

The first phase of the University of British Columbia’s Brock Commons residence, an 18-storey mass timber structure, has topped out. When completed in mid-2017, the 53-metre-tall building will provide housing for 404 students and will be recognized as the tallest mass timber hybrid building in the world.

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ABOVE The 18-storey Brock Commons Phase One residence is set to become the world’s tallest mass timber hybrid building.

advisors Architekten Hermann Kaufmann of Austria, structural engineers Fast + Epp, and fire science and building code consultants GHL. A key mandate for the innovative project is to demonstrate the viability of mass wood structures for B.C.’s development and construction industries. This has been achieved with a hybrid design that combines the benefits of CLT and concrete to achieve an economical structural system comparable in cost

to traditional all-concrete and steel structures.

The simplicity of the structural design eliminates the need for the usual supporting beams, instead using flat CLT timber panels stacked on glulam posts. Achieving a high degree of modularity ensures optimal manufacturing efficiency and speedy construction. In fact, while it was predicted that the building would be erected at a rate of one floor per week, a new storey was added every three days in the month of July.

The facade, meanwhile, is composed of a prefabricated panel system. The panels include steel stud-framed sections with pre-installed windows, and measure eight metres long. They are clad in a high-pressure laminate that consists of 70 per cent wood-based fibres and thermosetting resins. www.actonostry.ca

Montreal’s lower Saint-Laurent Boulevard to undergo redevelopment.

A nine-lot property next to the MonumentNational on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in downtown Montreal is about to undergo a major overhaul. Provencher_Roy has been announced as the architects, while SaintDenis Thompson will lead the heritage restoration of the extensive site.

Spearheaded by the Société de développement Angus, the new project is meant to unify the Main and respect its heritage, while being attuned to the imperatives of today’s real estate market. The project developers are equally aware of the need for consensus-building in this central downtown neighbourhood now undergoing revitalization.

The project calls for the construction of a tall building, slightly set back from SaintLaurent Boulevard, that will integrate some of the materials and historical details found in the surrounding old buildings. All told, it will offer 47,500 square metres of leasable area to be divided between offices, residential units, a cultural component and retail space.

The latter will be skewed toward fair-trade businesses, drawing inspiration from the small neighbourhood markets and food trucks enjoyed by Montrealers. The project is aiming for LEED NC Gold certification. www.provencherroy.ca

AWARDS Underpass Park and Corktown Common receive ASLA awards.

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Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) awards. Underpass Park in Toronto received an Award of Excellence, while Corktown Common, also in Toronto, received an Honour Award.

Designed by landscape architecture firm Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg with The Planning Partnership, Underpass Park is a highly imaginative public space in an unexpected setting. It’s located beneath a complex of existing highway overpasses in Toronto’s downtown—an otherwise forgotten and derelict remnant of infrastructure. The transformative public park, which includes Mirage, a mirror artwork by architect Paul Raff, provides diverse recreational and social opportunities, and connects local neighbourhoods and nearby parks.

Corktown Common, designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, is an urban park that establishes a model for integrating civic park design into urban f lood protection. Below the surface of a park replete with Ontario’s native f lora is a four-metre-high clay substructure that reshapes the Don River’s f loodplain, shielding Toronto’s postindustrial West Don Lands from potential inundation by redirecting f lood waters south toward the lake. www.asla.org

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Gow Hastings, Henriquez Partners and II x IV Design shortlisted for SBID Awards.

Gow Hastings Architects, Henriquez Partners Architects, and II x IV Design have been shortlisted for this year’s Society of British and International Design (SBID) Awards.

Gow Hastings Architects was shortlisted in the public space category for the Ryerson University Student ServiceHub. This is the second accolade for the ServiceHub this year. In June, the project earned an ARIDO Award of Excellence.

Vancouver’s Henriquez Partners Architects were also shortlisted in the public space category for the Telus Garden Lobby & Plaza. The ambitious project, located in downtown Vancouver, brings together developer Westbank, led by Ian Gillespie, and Henriquez Partners Architects, led by Gregory Henriquez, FRAIC. Toronto-based interior design studio II x IV Design was shortlisted in the restaurant, show flats & developments, and visualization categories for their projects Kasa Moto (restaurant), The Residences of 488 University Avenue (show flats & developments), Crystal Bach (visualization), and Lumina Condominium Development (visualization).

The SBID winners will be announced at a ceremony on November 25, 2016. www.sbidawards.com

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Theodore (Ted) Fujio Teshima, one of the original partners of Moriyama & Teshima Architects, passed away at home surrounded by family on September 2, 2016.

Teshima was born in Sea Island, British Columbia, on September 4, 1938. In this small village on the flatlands of what is now Richmond, B.C., the Teshima family lived in a house near the ocean, where his father worked as a successful fisherman with two fishing vessels.

As a schoolboy in Taber, Alberta, Teshima excelled at many subjects, particularly mathematics and drawing, and it was in high school that he discovered architecture. A high school librarian, noticing Teshima’s proficiency in drawing, showed him a book containing the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Two influential and historic designs captured his imagination: the Robie House and Fallingwater. Inspired, he thought, “if a person can design something incredible like that, then this is for me.”

Teshima would go on to obtain his Architecture degree at the University of Toronto, where he was taught by Raymond Moriyama, FRAIC. After graduating, Teshima briefly worked with Raymond Moriyama Architects

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Teshima’s boldness and sense of adventure led him to work at the office of Richard Sheppard Robson and Partners, then to travel through Europe. In particular, two projects by Le Corbusier—the Monastery of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette and the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp—made a significant impression on him.

Upon returning to Toronto in 1966, Teshima was soon asked to return to work for Raymond Moriyama Architects and Planners—now a rapidly expanding firm with a new office at 32 Davenport Road. Teshima served as the project manager and architect on many of the firm’s key projects, including the pivotal Scarborough Civic Centre.

In 1970, Teshima became a partner at Moriyama & Teshima Architects and Planners, beginning a new 36-year relationship as partner to Moriyama. Under this new partnership in the 1970s and throughout the 1980s, the variety of work the firm undertook kept expanding. Many more university clients were added and two legacy projects by Moriyama & Teshima were also completed—the Metro Toronto Reference Library on Yonge Street (now renamed the Toronto Reference Library) and Science North in Sudbury.

ABOVE Ted Teshima, partner at Moriyama & Teshima Architects and Planners, passed away in early September, 2016.

Teshima’s reasoned, logical and community-centred approach to handling projects made him a natural leader. Anyone who has seen Teshima going over design concerns, budget or program issues with clients has experienced his magic touch; his ability to explain situations logically and clearly would inevitably bring even the most difficult doubters and rivals to his side. Teshima continued to

be a key player for recent projects like the Kuwait University Master Plan and all projects for Imara and the Aga Khan; it was Teshima who made the key presentations to His Highness the Aga Khan for the Wynford Drive projects in Toronto and the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat in Ottawa.

Teshima retired from Moriyama & Teshima Architects in 2006, preceded by many well deserved honours and accomplishments: he was a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and Royal Society of Arts (England) and a member of the Ontario Association of Architects and Architectural Institute of British Columbia; he was Director of the Board of the Ontario Heritage Foundation from 1983 to 1990 and a member of the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto since 1987. In 2002, Teshima was bestowed with The Order of da Vinci from the Ontario Association of Architects, “an honour that is awarded to architects who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in the profession, in education, and/or in service to architecture and the community.”

Teshima’s leadership and defining contribution to the architecture community in Canada will be long remembered. www.mtarch.com

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AIMING HIGHER UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY SCORE TOP MARKS FOR NEW BUILDING TYPES THAT PUT STUDENTS FIRST AND CONNECT TO THEIR COMMUNITIES. TEXT

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Grade school enrolment has entered a sharp demographic dip in many parts of Canada, which means that post-secondary institutions will soon be vying for a dwindling number of students. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that, as the competition for the best college and university students intensifies, the architecture of higher education is getting smarter—and finding new ways to put students first.

In the past two decades, educational pedagogy has increasingly moved towards what is known as student-centred learning: a shift away from the traditional classroom with a teacher spouting information, toward interactive methods that emphasize learning by doing, often in groups.

Now, higher-education buildings are expanding the definition of what it means to be “student-centred.” In Toronto, Ryerson University’s ServiceHub consolidates student services into a sleek, gleaming antidote to lineups; at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Orchard Commons is an all-in-one residence and academic centre specifically designed for international students and frosh. And in the far reaches of Quebec and Manitoba, Alouette University and University College of the North respond directly to challenges that have previously hindered higher education from taking root in remote communities.

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RYERSON SERVICEHUB TORONTO, ONTARIO GOW HASTINGS ARCHITECTS In the bad old days of student services at Ryerson University, paying fees or changing courses generally involved queuing to complete a transaction at one counter within Jorgenson Hall’s dark corridors, and then being told to line up all over again somewhere else within the blocklong Brutalist building. “Services that were connected in students’ minds were all separate in our organizational structure,” explains Heather Lane Vetere, Vice Provost of Students at Ryerson University.

Most of Jorgenson Hall is still a textbook example of 1970s academic architecture at its double-loaded-corridor dreariest, but the 1,200square-metre portion of it recently transformed into Ryerson’s ServiceHub is now thoroughly 21st century. “What we envisioned,” says Vetere, “was a one-stop shop; a place where students could eat, talk to their friends, do schoolwork, or at least sit down while they waited.”

“This was a whole new model for Ryerson, not only in terms of space, but operationally,” says Valerie Gow, FRAIC, of Gow Hastings Architects. Her firm, with project architect Allan Banina, worked in close consultation with the Ryerson project management team that engineered the organizational retooling. The resulting space functions something like a technologically advanced hospital admissions department, but looks more like an Apple Store, with lots of backlit white Corian and upbeat pops of colour.

The ServiceHub’s integrated, boldly scaled environmental graphics were part of Gow Hastings’ scope of work. Near the entry, an extra-

1 A waiting area adjacent generous windows provides a pleasant place for students to work, eat and socialize. 2 Simple administrative tasks can be completed at backlit self-service terminals. 3 Translucent dividers add colourful touches to the otherwise serenely white space.

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large information symbol marks the check-in point. At this “triage” counter, students explain the purpose of their visit to staff. For straightforward bits of administration, they proceed to a touchdown self-service counter and complete the task on one of the computer screens set into a mirrored glass wall. Those with more involved transactions receive an alphanumeric ticket.

While waiting for their code to appear on a monitor, students can take a seat in the double-height lounge or in a sunny study area near the cafeteria. Plug-in points for recharging electronic devices are plentiful.

If the wait time will be more than a few minutes, ServiceHub staff will text them when they’re third in line.

Along the east side of the ServiceHub, students glimpse their destination—either a staffed service station on an open-plan floor, or, for more personal or complex matters, a line of private offices along the perimeter. Diagonal bands of translucent film in the yellow and blue of Ryerson’s brand identity have been strategically applied to the glass wall between the waiting and service zones. “You can see where you’re going to go, and yet privacy is maintained,” says design director Jim Burkitt.

The ServiceHub opened last fall, and at the busiest times of the year, as many as 500 students descend upon it at once. “But we don’t get ‘I’m waiting too long’ complaints anymore,” says Kevin Goodchild, Assistant Director of Client Relations in Ryerson’s Office of the Registrar. “This has really transformed our service.”

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1 Orchard Commons takes the form of two towers that frame a grassy lawn. Academic spaces occupy the lower levels, while residences are stacked above. 2 Curved edges soften the appearance of precast concrete façade panels. 3 The academic areas are home to Vantage College, a university program for first-year international students that are not yet fully fluent in English. 4 A generous interior stair provides spaces for lounging, mirroring an exterior stair facing another edge of the lawn. 5 A typical residence room, with views over the UBC campus. 6 A cafeteria is one of several common spaces on the lower levels of the building. 7 Social lounges at the ends of each tower connect between three-floor clusters, creating more intimate “houses” within the larger residence.

ORCHARD COMMONS, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA PERKINS+WILL On its Point Grey campus in Vancouver, the University of British Columbia is building five mixed-use hubs that integrate student residences with academic space. Orchard Commons—the second and most recently completed of them—will accommodate some 1,048 first-year international and domestic students. Synergistically, it also houses the classrooms and faculty offices of Vantage College, UBC’s transitional program for first-year international students not yet fully fluent in English.

Organized into two perpendicular towers, the site planning of Orchard Commons preserves a key pedestrian circulation route on the campus. A widened stair doubles as seating, negotiating a grade change at the base of one of the towers while providing south-facing views across a lawn that is bound to see a lot of hacky sack and Frisbee action.

Most of the residents of Orchard Commons will be 17-to-19-yearolds, living away from home for the first time. While highrises aren’t an intuitive choice for frosh, “development pressures on the campus have made towers necessary,” says Perkins+Will senior associate Derek Newby, MRAIC. Finding ways to foster a sense of community and encourage social interaction—especially for students needing to over-

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come a language barrier—was central to the design team’s approach.

Perkins+Will’s most notable response to this challenge is to make common spaces visible. Research conducted by the university determined that 100 people is the ideal size for a “house” within a campus residence— large enough for variety, small enough for everyone to know each other.

That’s the approximate occupancy of three floors in each tower. So the designers positioned glazed, three-storey lounges at one end of each building, providing shared social spaces for the students residing in each triple-floor cluster. An exit stair looks onto these stacked lounges, giving students glimpses at what’s going on throughout the building.

Wood is used purposefully to mark gathering spaces such as the lounges, dining hall, and Vantage College’s common areas. Although precast concrete is not inherently the warmest of materials, using it in combination with computational modeling made it possible to soften the tower façades with organic curves, without blowing the budget. Only 18 different storey-high, modular precast forms were needed to fabricate the flowing patterns, and Grasshopper software was used to achieve the desired 60-40 solid-to-glass ratio on this LEED Gold-targeted project.

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF THE NORTH THOMPSON, MANITOBA ARCHITECTURE49 Situated nearly 500 miles north of Winnipeg, the town of Thompson, Manitoba, was founded in 1957 by the provincial government with mining company Inco. The community’s population reached a high of approximately 26,000 in the 1970s, but is now closer to 13,000. More than a third of its residents are First Nations or Métis.

Designed by Architecture49 (formerly Smith Carter), the first purpose-built campus of University College of the North (UCN) opened in Thompson in 2014. UCN—which also has a campus in Le Pas, Manitoba, along with a dozen satellite locations—offers a mix of trade, adult education, certificate, diploma and university degree-granting programs.

To make the institution viable in a community of this size, the UCN Thompson Campus shares a site and a number of facilities with the Thompson Regional Community Centre, constructed a few years earlier. UCN students use the centre’s gymnasium, while the community centre shares UCN’s daycare and food services area.

Doug Corbett, MRAIC, who led Architecture49 on the campus design (he subsequently left to found Corbett Architecture), says that local factors—from student demographics to available construction resources—shaped the project. “The average age of UCN students is 27, and most are single parents,” says Corbett. “Access to education for them is totally dependent on having childcare and having housing, and it’s important to them to be close to their extended family.”

Occupying what was once a parking lot surfaced with mine waste backfill, the 8,155-square-metre building arcs gently around a landscaped, south-facing public space that Corbett describes as Thompson’s

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1 UCN’s Thompson Campus acts as a community hub. 2 Cedar-framed openings reference local resources. 3 The building arcs around a landscaped courtyard. 4 A daycare occupies one wing of the building. 5 An atrium is shared with an adjacent community centre. 6-7 Meeting areas and ceremonial spaces welcome use by locals. 8 Granite from a nearby quarry clads the atrium ground floor. 9 Daylight permeates the building.

“piazza.” To the west, an accessible green roof ramps up and over the daycare and connects to the main four-storey volume.

In a region where transporting materials is expensive and specialized construction labour is scarce, Architecture49 used what was locally available wherever possible, and selected materials that required little or no finishing. Granite from a nearby quarry clads the ground level and fills the Gabion cages—constructed by non-skilled local labourers—that frame the ramp and enclose the daycare’s play area. Cedar panels, unfinished steel siding and exposed concrete floors were used extensively on this LEED Gold project, which incorporates operable windows on the south side and a cost-efficient dual fuel (electricity and gas) heating system.

One of the top priorities was to create an educational facility that would be welcoming to the entire community. At the main entrance, carved panels by local artist Irvin Head symbolize education as a journey. The building is organized along a linear atrium that acts as a “main street” connecting to the community centre. With its food services area, the atrium has already become a popular local destination, attracting everyone from students at the neighbouring high school on their lunch hour, to parents of children playing hockey at the community centre.

But the educational journeys that UCN offers are still new options for Thompson, and many of its residents have hesitated to embark on them. “We built it for an enrolment of approximately 1,200, and we’re still sitting at around 300 to 400,” says Corbett. “But it’s only been a couple of years. It’s a generational thing that has to happen, and it’s not going to happen overnight.”

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ALOUETTE-UQAC UNIVERSITY BUILDING SEPT-ÎLES, QUEBEC BGLA ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN URBAIN The fortunes of Sept-Îles, Quebec, and Aluminerie Alouette are closely interconnected. In 1989, the company—now the largest aluminum smelter in the Americas—established its first facility in the northeastern region of the province. The area encompasses a mainland community of 26,000 and a sparsely populated scattering of St. Lawrence River islands.

Aluminerie Alouette has more than doubled its Sept-Îles base of operation since then, and continues to expand—due in part to a quid pro quo accord struck between the Province of Quebec and the region’s largest employer in 2011. The smelter agreed to construct a $10-million university building in Sept-Îles, in exchange for access to additional electricity from the province to increase its aluminum production.

Previously, the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) offered an adult education program at the Cégep de Sept-Îles—part of the province-wide junior college network. The new 3,200-square-metre AlouetteUQAC university building, which opened at the end of 2014, significantly expands local access to higher education. Adjacent the Cégep and designed to accommodate 400 students, it is already nearing capacity.

The three-storey university building was designed by BGLA Architecture + Design Urbain, which has a satellite office in Sept-Îles in addition to its Quebec City and Montreal studios. The design team conceived Alouette-UQAC as an educational facility that would showcase aluminum’s many uses in construction, including in sustainable technologies, while also drawing parallels between the processes of refining aluminum and gaining knowledge.

That analogy runs through the building from its north façade to its south-facing atrium. The perforated, convex aluminum panels that screen the north side from a public plaza represent “raw knowledge.”

The inner wall of the atrium is the “knowledge filter”—a porous surface of foamed aluminum, manufactured in Ontario by Cymat Technologies from recycled cans. Along the glazed south side, the triple-height atrium, designed for use by university and Cégep students as well as the community at large, is the “knowledge crossroads,” a place for sharing what has been learned.

Other elements throughout Alouette-UQAC are also constructed from aluminum, ranging from the feature stair’s structural frame and railings, to the modular wall system that allows faculty and administrative offices to be reconfigured to meet future needs.

To BGLA’s Pierre André Lévesque, MIRAC, it was important for Sept-Îles’ first university building to employ advanced sustainability techniques, demonstrating how greater knowledge can lead to greater good. Key green design attributes include glulam timber and CLT panel construction, and a solar wall that preheats fresh air before it enters the ventilation system.

But the most compelling sustainability story involves the innovative solar collectors on the roof, manufactured by Rackam of Sherbrooke, Quebec, and making their institutional project debut at AlouetteUQAC. Installation of the geothermal system integral to the building’s hybrid technology loop is not yet complete, but when it is up and running, the combination of the collectors and an ejector-compression cooling system will not only harness the sun’s heat to warm the building in the colder months, but also use it for cooling in the warmer months.

And of course, the collectors are made of aluminum.

Pamela Young is a Toronto-based writer, editor and communications manager.

1 The university building showcases aluminum in many forms, including innovative solar collectors on the roof that contribute to both heating and cooling needs. 2 The primary structure is made of glulam and CLT wood products. 3 Foamed aluminum gives a unique texture to the inner wall of the atrium. 4 The daylit atrium serves as an informal gathering place for the surrounding community. 5 Perforated aluminum sheets, arrayed in saillike panels, provide solar shading along one of the building’s main façades. 6 Structural cross-bracing is exposed in a seminar room.

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“No place like home!” In my grandmother’s early days of Alzheimer’s, this was my family’s battle cry as we struggled to care for her. We desperately wanted to keep her at home, but with little support, it was daunting and stressful.

The nonprofit organization Carefirst is guided by the exact same ethos. They have created a slew of services to encourage aging-in-place, recognizing the needs of seniors as well as their families. We would have been the perfect clients.

Carefirst’s humble beginnings were as a meal delivery service for seniors in Toronto’s Chinatown. Over the years, it gradually grew and adapted to the changing needs of its community, shedding its ethnic and geographical references in the process. With CEO Helen Leung

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The approach is embodied in the Carefirst One-Stop Centre for Seniors and Community, a new facility designed by Montgomery Sisam Architects and located in the eastern suburb of Scarborough. A dream hatched by Leung (who is now supported by some 500 staff members), One-Stop’s innovation lies in providing medical care and community services under a single roof. On the face of it, the idea seems straight-forward. However, due to the provincial government’s fragmented funding model, the centre is an Ontario first in combining these resources.

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OPPOSITE Located in a suburb of Toronto, the Carefirst One-Stop Centre combines medical care and community services in a single location, offering a broad base of support for seniors who opt to continue living at home rather than in a dedicated care facility. ABOVE, TOP TO BOTTOM Inspired by traditional Chinese houses, the building pivots around a central courtyard; day program spaces enjoy views to the courtyard; glazed interior walls bring daylight into a computer room, adjacent a corridor that doubles as a walking circuit.

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OPPOSITE The landscaped courtyard offers a space to connect with nature, and adds to the building’s open and welcoming character. In a post-occupancy survey, 97 per cent of staff agreed that the building promoted a positive atmosphere for seniors that made it easier to interact with them.

ABOVE A transitional care unit on the third floor includes rooms where seniors can stay while moving between hospital and home, or spend a few days to give temporary relief to their at-home caregiver.

Stop is tucked behind a nondescript banquet hall and surrounded by industrial buildings. Though accessible by two public transit bus lines, the immediate geography is a challenge—the site is bound by a hydro corridor on one side and a trans-Canada gas line on another, and situated at the end of a dead-end street. How do you draw people, the majority of whom are seniors, to a facility that feels out of the way, even by suburban standards? More importantly, how do you create a sense of place in the middle of nowhere?

Montgomery Sisam’s partner in charge of the project, Alice Liang, FRAIC, looked to the past and to the future for solutions. Though Carefirst serves people of all backgrounds, the majority of its clientele is Chinese. Liang drew on the typology of traditional Chinese courtyard houses, merging it with a contemporary Canadian suburban vernacular.

The idea of the courtyard house as a model of integration captured the attention of Carefirst’s board, and won Montgomery Sisam the project.

Liang also explored the future continuation of the dead-end road and took that as the de facto scenario—which, at present, makes for some curious siting conditions. However, it is possible to picture One-Stop’s front door becoming much more central and the retail component gaining prominence once the street becomes a throughfare.

The four-storey brick building is deceptively simple from afar—a series of elongated blocks with an exit stair tower adding verticality.

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lantern at night. Interior functions dictate the size and the stacking order of the volumes. It seems almost formulaic in composition.

However, the mastery of the complex programming and the deft handling that makes sense of it all—even to first-time visitors— shines through as soon as the front door opens. Actually, there are two front doors—one fronting onto that current dead-end street, the other facing the parking lot. Both are visually connected to the exterior courtyard, so visitors are oriented from the moment they step in. The built-up volumes cleverly shelter the courtyard, allowing it to shine as the heart of the centre. The building is kept narrow to allow maximum exposure to natural light. This simple move has proved to be transformative, creating interiors that are refreshingly bright, in contrast to the dark, mazelike floorplates typical of institutional care buildings.

One-Stop organizes its base programming— wellness, daycare and transitional care—by floor. The wellness program, located on the very visible and public ground level, has a large menu of classes, much like any community centre. The offerings are geared towards able and independent seniors.

On one end, this floor is anchored by an auditorium, and on the other, by a group of program rooms surrounded by a walking track. Because natural light streams in from every angle and there is always a view to the outside, the entire floor feels airy and accessible. In fact, the exterior courtyard and the walking track are well used by both the seniors as well as the staff.

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ABOVE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP On the second floor, a single waiting area allows for easy access to a range of healthcare services, including family physicians, physiotherapy, and specialized clinics for cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology, eye examination and allergies; the third floor offers single and shared rooms for overnight stays and is fully staffed by nurses; the ground-level canteen adjoins the courtyard garden.

able seniors, who require extra care. As soon as the elevator doors open, a spacious waiting area and set of reception counters come into view.

There is no mistaking that this is where healthcare services are offered.

Tucked behind the reception are examination rooms, offices and meeting rooms. The daycare occupies the balance of the floor, with secure access. Activities and meals take place in a large multipurpose room.

On the third floor is transitional care, a facility staffed around-theclock by nurses, where seniors can stay for up to three months. It offers a bridge for seniors returning from hospital to home. This allows expensive hospital beds to be freed for others, and creates time for family to make necessary care arrangements at home. The program aligns well with the government’s need to control the ballooning healthcare budgets of our aging population. As the patient recovers, plans can be made for her to join the daycare and participate in other programs.

Beds are also available for short stays to give relief to caregivers—a vital function for preventing burnout.

With all services in a single building, both medical and social needs are only an elevator ride away. Not only does this arrangement save time that might otherwise be spent shuttling between appointments, it also significantly reduces stress for seniors, as well as for family and caregivers.

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Like many healthcare institutions, One-Stop was bursting at the seams the day that Carefirst took occupancy. Expansion may be in the cards for this location. The ultimate dream, though, is to replicate the model across the country, and to serve people of all ages. To that end, both Leung and Liang are championing this paradigm of care in their own ways—one in providing integrated healthcare, and the other in housing it.

My grandmother eventually went to YeeHong nursing home—a dedicated facility that stands at the opposite end of the seniors’ healthcare spectrum. While we could not wish for a better place of support with her advanced state of Alzheimer’s, I wish she had the chance to enjoy her last lucid days with Carefirst.

Joanne Lam is a Toronto-based architect and writer.

CLIENT CAREFIRST SENIORS & COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION | ARCHITECT TEAM ALICE LIANG, BRAD COLLARD, WILLIAM HARISPURU | STRUCTURAL JABLONSKY AST & PARTNERS | MECHANICAL/ELECTRICAL SHARMA & PARTNERS | CIVIL R.J. BURNSIDE & ASSOCIATES | LANDSCAPE JAMES MCWILLIAM LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT | INTERIORS MONTGOMERY SISAM ARCHITECTS | CONTRACTOR BROOKFIELD MULTIPLEX CONSTRUCTION CANADA | AREA 4,925 M2 | BUDGET $12.7 M | COMPLETION JULY 2015

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HEALTHY OUTCOMES TEXT AND DIAGRAMS

Cheryl Atkinson

A MAJOR PRE- AND POST-OCCUPANCY STUDY OF A NEW TORONTO HOSPITAL PROVIDES EVIDENCE FOR DESIGN’S IMPACT ON QUALITATIVE ASPECTS OF WELLNESS. In 2013, I joined experimental social psychologist Dr. Celeste Alvaro to conduct a post-occupancy study of Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, a complex care hospital in Toronto. This study, the largest of its kind in Canada, was uniquely positioned to look at the psychosocial impacts of design on staff and patients in chronic care and rehabilitation, as Bridgepoint relocated from its old building to a new state-of-the-art facility on an adjacent site.

While most evidence-based design research has focused on readily quantifiable impacts, such as optimized workflows, this study sought to investigate some of the harder-to-measure qualitative aspects of design. We were interested in the effects of design on the psychological well-being of patients—depression, connectedness, mood, stress reduction—as well as looking at health impacts such as pain and mobility.

The hospital’s architects—Stantec Architecture / KPMB Architects (Planning, Design and Compliance Architects) and HDR Architecture / Diamond Schmitt Architects (Design, Build, Finance and Maintain Architects)—aspired to make the 464-bed facility into a new paradigm in patient-centered care for chronic disease and rehabilitation in Canada. The country’s aging population is projected to be living longer with complex and multiple chronic diseases, which means longer-term or recurring relationships with treatment environments.

To address this new reality, healthcare facilities will be transitioning from the current model of predominantly acute care (where visits are short and infrequent) to a new model of ongoing care. The social, sensorial and affective qualities of spaces are far more important in this

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latter type of care—which comes with a captive and aware patient population, prone to depression and boredom.

ISSUES AND OBJECTIVES

The architects’ stated design objectives were used as the focus for the study. These included normalizing and humanizing the hospital environment, connecting it into the local community and Riverdale Park, maximizing daylight and views, and using multiple ancillary spaces as destinations to encourage mobility and social interaction. During preliminary design, the project was presented as a “village of care”, featuring “urban porches” and “sky gardens” that would enhance the quality of life for patients by offering an augmented program of amenity spaces.

The hospital was significantly enlarged from the earlier facility because of a transition from quad and triple rooms to private and semiprivate rooms, as well as the addition of physiotherapy spaces, resource rooms, dining spaces, lounges, gardens and retail—all linked through internal “streets” that visually connect to the local context. The study analyzed the character, configuration and impact of these connective and social spaces, as well as evaluating the improved hospital rooms.

While it was expected that these innovations would all be positively received, one of the concerns with the bigger building (now on a greater number of larger floor plates) was that it would create too low a density of occupants per floor—actually diminishing social interaction and mobility rather than enhancing it. There was also concern that the improved quality and privacy of the individual rooms might make patients

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Roof garden Patient auditorium

The new hospital building sits higher than its predecessor, offering sweeping views over the Don Valley. ABOVE Seating in the lobby has proven a popular place for patients to gather, allowing them to observe the comings and goings of hospital staff and visitors.

OPPOSITE

Physiotherapy Patient rooms Patient dining

reclusive, and that the greater quantity, variety and dispersion of social spaces would diminish the intensity experienced in the previous building’s centralized lounges.

Staff lounge Meeting room Patient lounge Cyber cafe 5th floor terrace Hair salon Spiritual care

SOCIAL SPACE AND MOTIVATION

Our interdisciplinary research team, led by Dr. Alvaro, collected responses from patients and staff both before and after the move to the new Bridgepoint. They used a variety of systemic and unobtrusive methods to gather spontaneous, unsolicited impressions related to comfort, wellness, connectedness and social interaction. Our architectural team, which I led, looked at these reported differences in use and at the perception of space in each building, and cross-referenced this information with comparative architectural data. We considered the densities of patients and staff per floor, quantity and variety of amenity spaces competing for patient use, travel distance to social spaces and elevators, visual interest and porosity of interrelated areas, presence of daylight, and other circulation conditions that could facilitate casual social interface and interaction.

Compared to the former building, the new hospital is twice as large in floor area, offers quadruple the volume of space, and has almost five times the ratio of amenity-to-bed space. The change to private and semi-private rooms and bathrooms—an upgrade that meets contemporary hospital best practice and accessibility codes, conventions and systems—drove much of this area and volume increase. The increase in amenity space, for its part, was not simply program driven, but came out of the selected plan parti. Site constraints dictated an eleven-storey

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Meeting room Physiotherapy Nurse station Patient dining Patient lounge Patient rooms West porch Retail Cafeteria Research library Community auditorium Labyrinth Pool + physiotherapy

Lobby Staff gym + lounge

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

AREA

Patient rooms

12,335 m2

Patient amenity

5,897 m2

% OF COMBINED AREA

48% 23%

Staff work

1,703 m2

Staff amenity

450 m2

1.7%

Public areas

518 m2

2%

Outdoor amenity

4,500 m2

7%

18%

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ABOVE, LEFT TO RIGHT

Hallways on patient floors end in views outdoors; an elevated terrace is another favourite patient gathering space.

AREA / VOLUME

BRIDGEPOINT 2013

51,076 m2 total area 238,445 m3 total volume 10 stories 480 in-patient beds 106 m2 bldg area/patient

BEDS / ROOM

DAYLIGHT

FENESTRATION

BEDROOMS

1:1 window-to-wall ratio

38% single 62% double

1:2 window-to-wall ratio

34% double 66% quad

1.63 90% of patient space

receives more than 3 hours direct daylight

BRIDGEPOINT 1963

24,298 m2 total area 60,090 m3 total volume 8 stories 580 in-patient beds 42 m2 bldg area/patient

3.31

building while maintaining a relatively compact footprint. Multiple floors were each given their own “neighbourhood” lounge spaces for a much smaller population of patients per floor than the former building. The pinwheel floor plan, organized to provide destinations and views at the end of each corridor, generated a proliferation of common spaces.

As anticipated, we found that these patient floor amenity and lounge spaces were rarely used, despite their abundant daylight and attractive distant views. Instead, patients typically travelled multiple f loor levels to gather at a few central building destinations. The most popular areas were the rooftop terrace—an outdoor space with activity, community and spectacular views to the lake and the city—and the ground f loor lobby and cafeteria, where patients were more apt to encounter larger groups and could observe the comings and goings of staff and visitors. On average, there was a 23.4 per cent increase in patient motivation to “get out and move around” in the new building versus the old—a key objective for chronic care patients prone to inactivity.

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60% of patient space

receives more than 3 hours direct daylight

As William Whyte observed in his famous study of public spaces, “what attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.”

More important than the quantity and variety of amenity spaces were the qualities of the internal circulation paths to get to them. On patient floors, circulation was designed to ensure a high level of daylight, as well as syncopated and varied views to the adjacent parks, urban skyline and surrounding neighbourhood, encouraging a sense of orientation. Documented impressions showed that patients enjoyed a greater sense of connectedness to the outside world and interest in moving around the building.

In general, the collected data showed a consistently improved overall reaction to the new building. The average response was 13 per cent more positive compared to the old facility. Patients also perceived their own health as ameliorated, with mental health improvements an average of 6 per cent higher pre- versus post-occupancy. They are also healing significantly more quickly—according to hospital President and CEO Marion Walsh, patient stays are 25 per cent shorter in the new facility.

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Roof terrace

1.6 m2 / patient

BEYOND BRIDGEPOINT

3.65 m2 / patient

2.4 patients / 100 m2

Every building is a unique entity, the product of a complex construct of variables. Analytical templates and techniques for eliciting and gauging patient response have the potential for broader adoption—providing a standard for collecting, unbundling, and analyzing the largeorder architectural components and conditions that distinguish projects, and understanding their impacts on human feelings and behaviours.

As Canada grapples with a growing need for chronic care and rehab facilities, evidence on the impact of design on psycho-social health will be an extremely valuable tool, eventually leading to new mandated standards and guidelines. Properly implemented, evidence-based guidelines will have the potential to reduce stress and depression, while improving patient outlook, social interaction, and self-efficacy in mobility. These are measurable outcomes that can help reduce patient stays and related healthcare delivery costs. Recent measurement standards for commercial and institutional buildings, like the WELL

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Residential

0.4 m2 / patient

Terrace

Residential

100%

Old Don Jail (admin)

35.5%

Broadview

AMENITY 13%

Broadview

LOUNGE 31%

Don Valley Parkway

0.9 patients / 100 m2

Main entrance

Porch

Entrance

Don Valley Parkway

9.4 m2 / patient

12.3 m2 / patient

5th floor terraces

39%

Don River

100%

Riverdale Park

1.2 m2 / patient

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Don River

% patient rooms 5% patient amenity 1% staff work 5% staff amenity 8% public

DENSITY

AMENITY

100% 100%

% patient rooms 28% patient amenity 8% staff work 2% staff amenity 2% public

OUTDOOR AMENITY

Riverdale Park

SOCIAL SPACE

LOUNGE

PROGRAM

Building Standard, further attest to the importance of qualitative design.

There is a business case for improving the character, beauty and experiential quality of our built environment.

Cheryl Atkinson, OAA, MRAIC is an associate professor at Ryerson University’s Department of Architectural Science.

This research was funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI) grant awarded to Dr. Celeste Alvaro and team via the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research and the Rx&D Health Research Foundation Fostering Innovation in Healthcare Initiative with partnered funding from the Health Capital Investment Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.

The full research report, including an overview of the research development and the team, can be found at: www.issuu.com/architectureandhealthresearch.

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Architecture is facing a new necessity: designing for resiliency. The impacts of extreme weather events due to climate change influence decision-making across the industry. Rising sea levels, increases in global temperatures, and fluctuations in precipitation are forcing us to re-think our built environment: from cities, to stand-alone developments and retrofits. What are the standards of resilient design when dealing with weather-related risks and security? What are the latest innovations for mitigating structural, functional and operational issues arising out of climate change? The 2016 International Architectural Roundtable will round up global insights on how to design for the realities of our changing climate. The need for resiliency is already making an impact on investment and development underwriting, tenant decisions and city-building. These shifts need to be better understood and managed—starting with design.

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WORLDS COLLIDING TEXT

Lawrence Bird

THE WINNIPEG DESIGN FESTIVAL OFFERS GLIMPSES INTO THE CITY’S URBAN POTENTIAL. Melissa McAlister, MRAIC and Sean Radford are today partners at, respectively, Prairie Architects and AtLRG Architecture. But in 2011, they were interns looking for a creative outlet.

The project they came up with was a new public venture: the Winnipeg Design Festival (WDF).

WDF has since evolved into a four-day multidisciplinary celebration, and a signature event of design advocacy group Storefront MB. This year’s festival spanned architecture, landscape, city planning, furniture design, graphic design and crafts—the latter two new for 2016.

WDF draws on local traditions of working small and collaboratively. A revolving curatorship sees outgoing organizers mentoring their successors, and an army of collaborators applying their expertise to specific events.

To encourage synergies across the wide spectrum of WDF ’s design disciplines, this year’s organizers, Dora Batista and Pablo Batista, MRAIC (currently interns at Stantec and 5468796 Architecture) adopted a strategy of, as they put it, “worlds colliding”. This entailed scheduling events for distinct audiences close together in time and space. A number of programs converged in Winnipeg’s heritage Exchange District. Exhibitions like Elements Furniture and Model Homes, a pop-up market for crafts and manufacture, as well as a public

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lecture and film venue dedicated to design entrepreneurship were indicative of the curators’ eclectic sensibility. The Batistas see public engagement as key to demonstrating that design is not firstly about form, but about thought process. Their approach worked: every evening venue, including those running in parallel, was at capacity.

Besides local talent, the fest has national scope, with B.C.’s John Patkau, FRAIC, as the 2016 keynote speaker. The organizers say that in the long run, they hope to establish links with other design festivals and become a destination event: drawing not just speakers, but also attendees from across the country. At the same time, they hope to maintain WDF ’s unpretentious spirit of collaboration sensitive to the local context, as well as its “restlessness”, a quality sensed in the multi-disciplinary, peripatetic character of many of the events. McAlister adds that it’s important to keep leveraging Winnipeg’s “middleness”—its condition both on the national periphery and as a regional centre. This seems to play out in the festival’s simultaneously accessible and fringe-like atmosphere, a quality shared by other arts events in the ‘Peg. The Batistas say that being involved in WDF has given them a new appreciation of what it takes to change perspectives—both in terms of

A figure from Manik Dreamscape marks a venue entrance; Mixed Media Music Maker from Art City and planners Freig & Associates appeals to all ages; a live art piece called Adaptation reimagines a city intersection; a view of the finale party at Portage and Main.

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shifting the public perception of design, and in negotiating with stakeholders to co-opt public spaces for the festival. In this regard, WDF ’s ambition was apparent in this year’s culminating event: a panel discussion, book launch, art installation and finale party held at Winnipeg’s central intersection, Portage and Main. This is a contentious site. Pedestrian crossings were closed in 1978; current mayor Brian Bowman has pledged to remove concrete barriers to help re-connect a fractured downtown. But Winnipeggers have become used to the status quo and resistence to reopening the intersection remains.

The WDF responded by working with the Manitoba Professional Planners Institute to set the final events in a little-used plaza at the intersection, bringing attention to how disused spaces like this can be enriched. And CBC radio chose to broadcast their popular local morning show from the same site the week after WDF, hosting a discussion with the Mayor about the re-opening of Portage and Main.

This final event underscored WDF ’s broad mission: addressing the public stakes of all types of design, with an end game of enriching Winnipeg’s built environment.

Lawrence Bird, MAA, MCIP is an architect and planner.

He works with Winnipeg firm Ager Little Architects.

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5th INTERNATIONAL LAFARGEHOLCIM AWARDS FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION

Total Prizes of $2 Million We are committed to sustainable construction and projects that support PROGRESS - PEOPLE PLANET - PROSPERITY - PLACE. LafargeHolcim Awards Silver 2014 – $50,000 USD. Lieu de vie on the new Paris-Saclay university campus hosts a mix of activities including indoor and outdoor sports facilities, food outlets and various public spaces across more than 4,000 sq m of floor area. Using rough materials, robust and long lasting techniques, the “urban shelf” is organized vertically with its different activities superimposed on one another, using the roof as a panoramic playground for football and basketball games. Paris, France

LafargeHolcim Awards Gold prize – $100,000 USD. The central flower and vegetable garden at Benny Farm was always the neighborhood focus of social interaction. At the core of the design is the establishment of participatory models and investment in sustainable construction, centered on common energy, water & waste management. Montreal, Canada

Enter your project in one of these categories: l Architecture, building and civil engineering l Landscape, urban design and infrastructure l Materials, products and construction technologies Professional and Next Generation awards.

LafargeHolcim Acknowledgment Prize – $7,500 USD. The sustainable library and classroom building demonstrates environmental responsibility and stewardship for the student body and the community. Such forces are put to work in an ingenious way by the warped concrete roof that is shaped so as to increase the velocity of air currents, thus eliminating the need for mechanical ventilation. Vancouver, Canada

LafargeHolcim Acknowledgment Prize – $25,000 USD. Heritage Reframed: University building renovation and extension.

The complete DFALD restores the architecture, landscape and urban design within the round of Spadina Crescent. The site’s hydrology is evident in the roof profile, shaped to guide water into pools, bio-swales and ultimately to cisterns for irrigation. Toronto, Canada

For more information: application.lafargeholcim-awards.org

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