CITY OF CRYSTALLIZATION
EXISTING BUILDING ANAYLYSIS
Toronto is a typical North American metropolis with architectural influence from both British and American; the city was soon filled up with modern office towers and condo buildings due to the increase in population. However, the city still tries to preserve as many old buildings as possible, making the city a fusion of old and new with self-identification.
The city of Crystallization is the metaphor suitable for this city. In Toronto, old buildings are a foundation for new buildings; they are also a witness of time and city iteration. New buildings are like the crystals on the stone; they are shiny and glamorous, but always respect the stone and the city's history.
DESIGN PROCESS
EXISTING
EXTENTION
PERSERVATION
CONNECTION
CONNECTION
CRYSTALLIZATION
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at the building from north west, the fire escape came into the sight, standing along makes a strong contrast with condo buildings in the back. Looking at the building from south west, the annex building makes the building intersting, the white victoria style cafe marks when the building was build.
Looking at the building from north east, the
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1 2 5 4 3 6 7 8 8 8 8 9 1. HOTEL LOBBY 2. CAFE/BREAKFEST BAR 3. BAR 4. RESTAURANT 5. KITCHEN 6. STAGE 7. BACKSTAG 8. SHOPS 9. RESTROOM
1. CAFE/BREAKFEST BAR 2. KITCHEN 3. STAGE 4. BACKSTAGE 5. RESTRURANT 6. GYM 7. YOGA STUDIO 8. PATIO 9. PARTY ROOM 10. MEETING ROOM 11. AUDITORIUM 12. RESTROOM 13. LOFT SUITE 14. RESTROOM 4 13 3 1 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 14 7 2
7st FLOOR
6st FLOOR
5st FLOOR
4st FLOOR
3st FLOOR
2st FLOOR
1st FLOOR
PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION
FIRE EXIT CIRCULATION
CICURLATION DIAGRAM
ROOM ANAYSIS Queen bed Suite Executive Suite LOFT SUITE 2ND FLOOR LOFT SUITE 1ST FLOOR
The Loft suite has four bedrooms, a dining room and a spacious living room. The Living room has a fully set kitchen, a piano, and a spiral staircase leading to the second floor. The suite also has a crystal glass window spanning the living room to the dining room and roof. The additional structure on the top of the annex building uses a truss system structure to make the cantilever possible.
The queen bed suite is simple and minimalistic; the room will mainly use wood, brass and leather in interior design. The executive suite has an additional living room for guest visits. The Living room also has a minibar that supports quick cocktail DIY.
SITE ANAYLYSIS
Kenya, Nairobi,Mathare Va ey
Kenya’s population has b n growing since independence with the 2019 census enumerating a population of 47,564,296 people. In 2020, the urban population amounted to 28% of the total population. Further 60% of the urban population is considered to dwe in informal se lements.
Nairobi County has no major water tower and relies on other neighbouring counties within Tana Basin for its water supply which is around 50 Km from the city. Water supply is sti not reliable during drought seasons, also unsustainable land practices near the reservoirs risk its siltation.
Kibera, Mathare and Kangemi are among the areas within Nairobi which were listed to lack space for household toilets and lack land for public toilets. Mathare residents also dispose of some of their waste into the Nairobi River. 90% of the residents do not have a to piped water.
60% of risidents in Kenya lives in informal se elment
90% of risidents in Nairobi do not have a e to piped water
Water, sewage and other po utants drain into the va ey from surrounding co unities & facilities. A e to clean drinking water in Mathare is via water kiosks which charge per 20ltr jerrycan. The prices can fluctuate from KSH 5-20/= depending on the availability of water.It also varies depending on whether the kiosk is private or public(govt or NGO).a
WATER
Women and girls who rely on shared toilets, at schools or in densely populated urban se lements, lack privacy, safety and hygiene to comfortably manage their daily toilet and menstruation n ds.
Risidents n ds to transport water with bucket to home every day
BRIGES
MA INGS ROADS
Problem
BLOCKS
Contaminated Water can cause disease among residents
Soil contaminated by garbage
Rivers been darkened by a mixture of industrial and raw sewage.
Community Safety
People need to spend a lot of time cleaning up river channels
Planting vegetables with unclean water sources,unclen water resulting in mass soil and crop contamination and illness post-consumption.
flying toilet once someone defecates in a plastic bag, they close it, then start swinging it into an arc before sling-shotting it into the air.
Plastic waste and excrement clog the river
Clean water is usually expensive
Women wash clothes just outside a river polluted with sewage and waste.The rate of drug-resistant infections in the community is high
Sustainability Environment
Most residents pour their excrement into open ditches or rivers, and children may become infected with these pollutants, leading to illness or even death. At night, children may fall into them.
Most of them are simple toilets without water or electricity, which are in disrepair and pose significant safety hazards
Toilets are gender neutral and lack women's privacy space.At night, they may even encounter danger.
No place to wash hands. Toilets is very dirty.
Excrement and garbage can be made into three-dimensional vegetable gardens
Frequent flooding during the rainy season.Most of the rainwater is wasted because there is no place to store it.
Excrement can be treated to become fertilizer.
FOREST
SLOPE FLAT LAND
IAN
HIGHWAY HI
MINOR ROADS ROADS MAP FOREST MAP TE
No a e to piped water 90%
Live in informal se elment 90%
“The waste water pa es through open drains and snails through the compound and through the neighbouring houses and into the river …”
Mama Esther, a resident of Mukuru se lement
“The police are usua y resistant to come here because they say there are no roads…”
A resident of Kibera Laini Saba vi age
We usua y buy water from private water vendors around here although water supply is very intermi ent… For our domestic use, involving cooking, washing and bathing, we n d up to 150 litres of water per day… However, because of the high costs involved in buying water, we have got to do with even 30 litres a day… It costs us Ksh 2 [approximately US$0.025] per 20 litre container of water, and if we were able to pay for the water we n d, I would be paying up to Ksh 160 per day [US$2]… But we ca ot a ord this. So the result is that our children and we have to skip bath and we only wash the clothes o asiona y…With other basic n ds, particularly food to pay for, we ca ot a ord to think of water as the most important n d.
have lived here for about 20 years and one of the main problems is the high frequency of cholera, dysentery and other water-borne diseases, especia y for our children. Last month, my second-born child, aged 15 years, was seriously hit by cholera that she almost died were it not for the mercy of the local health unit where she was a ended to… My other thr children frequently su er from water-borne ne es from time to time. a ribute this to the situation we live in where we do not have enough a e to clean water and are forced to drink po uted water. The open drains that you s here pa within the vi ages and in front of houses… Pipes used for drinking water often leak and come into contact with waste and sewage... don’t know what to do – even though would wish to move from this place, ask myself where else can a ord to go…
“This is my livelihood, se ing tomatoes. When am told have to relocate, I have no husband or job, where do they expect me to go? How wi I put food on my table?”
Rose Awino from Kibera
Sustainability
water purification
Rain water collection
Self Electric generated
River clean-up
Flying toilets are frequently used here. Almost a my neighbours use them and the practice is that they are thrown at night. We f that this contributes to the unsanitary conditions in our environment but what do you expect people to do? Toilets and latrines are very few for most of us. In my case the landlord has not put up a toilet and yet we are about five families living on the plot…
Community Safety
Lit up during the night
Sense of Safety Hygiene
Access to Clean water
Source of Income Free to use washroom
Sense of Community Social Space
(KENYA THE UNSEEN MAJORITY: NAIROBI’S TWO MILLION SLUM-DWELLERS) -Amnesty International
SITE ANALYSIS
Massing Roofing Site Massing adapting Opening Supporting Layout Massing Add Solar Roofing Test pavillion on site Ajust the pavillion to needed functions Create Openings Use Wooden structure to support The site is biside a bridge that are used by local to commute to bus stop and other side of river.
site is a slope with looking over the south community and Mathare river. Under the bridge is Mathare river, on the photo the river is polluted and filled with trash.
COMMUNITY IMPLUVIUM DESIGN PROCESS
USER RESEARCH
The
1. COMMUNITY PAVILLION 2. WATER PAVILLION 3. RECYCLE PAVILLION 1 2 3 EAST SECTION 1 2 3 5 8 5 6 7 7 4 4 1. RIVER CLEAN UP SYSTEM 2. COMUUNITY STAGE 3. STAIR SEATING 4. PUBLIC SHOWER 5. PUBLIC WASHROOM 6. FILTRATION SYSTEM WELL 7. RECYCLE+WATER TAP SYSTEM PARTITION PLAN RECYCLE PAVILLION
ISOMETRIC DIAGRAM BASE FILTRATION & STORAGE PARTITION USAGE structure GUIDED FLOW roofing WATER COLLECTION roof structure prr-fab transportation
COMMUNITY PAVILLION
WATER PAVILLION
REHYDRATION
PARKDALE COMMUNITY CENTER, PUBLIC
2022 Winter Indivisual school project
Critic: Victoria Suen
Site: 256 Dufferin st, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
SOUTH PARKDALE is a historically vibrant neighbourhood in Toronto; the community is famous for its Victorian buildings, multicultural residents, commercial shops, and restaurants. The site has been used for a new condo development, which stirred protests against the gentrification of the community.
The Parkdale Community Center is a repurposing of the site that can benefit the community instead of gentrifying it. In this project, the main goal is to reconnect the neighbourhood with water, based on the history of a highway that has been built; it creates a mental and physical barrier for the residents of Parkdale to access the lake. The building also considers using functional designs that support the sustainability factor of the building.
COLLAGE: CITY OF CRYSTALLIZATION
SITE ANALYSIS
Site:King&Dufferin, Toronto, ON, Canada
SOUTH PARKDALE COMMUNITY
Community Lifestyle
Sunny side beach is a great summer destination for Torontoian, the lake is open to swim during the summer and also there is a pool on the beach.
During the summer, the humber bay lake side is great to sign seeing for sunrise and sunset. Also it is a exellent spot for photo taken of Toronto city skyline.
Along the lakeshore, there are many parks and club relate to nature and water. There are club about rowing and boating favored by local residents.
Sounth Parkdale
Sounth parkdale has been taken many immgrants from all over the world, within the Tibetan and south asians. Therefore many Tibetan and other restrante make the area also named by little Tibet. The Ontario place hosts the Canada’s biggest carnival CNE during the summer, that truns the place into a diverse and versatile celebrition festival with rides, foods, shows and many more.
The area has seen an influx of artists working in the relatively inexpensive spaces, close to the exhibit spaces on Queen Street within Parkdale and along Queen Street to the east.
Ontario Place
The opening of the Parkdale Arts and Cultural Centre, along with efforts to promote businesses in the area, such as the Parkdale-Liberty Economic Development Centre, has spurred the growth of a vibrant creative area along Queen Street
The Ontario place hosts many shows with Coca-Cola Coliseum, Budweiser Stage, Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Concerts, shows attract many tourists and local residents.
Liberty Village
South Parkdale Waterfront
Upper Duck Pond West Pond
Grenadier Pond
Sunnyside Beach
The Ontario place are also the home of football team of Toronto, BMO fied, Coca-cola Coliseum hosts many foot ball and hockey games.
Humber River
Lake Ontario
Liberty Village has gained a reputation as a destination spot for those seeking unique furniture and design stores,as well as art galleries, hip coffee shops and urban fusion restaurants.
The Dominion supermarket anchors a shopping strip that includes a video store, a pet supply store, a dry cleaner and a bank.
Ontario Place West Channel
CITY FABRIC HEIGHT FABRIC TYPE FABRIC PERIOD FABRIC Mordern Industrial Victoria Site Park Commercial Residential Site Ground 1-3 Storey Mid-rise high-rise Humber bay
existing site Roofing manipulation supporting massing setback existing site Add roof Manipulate shape and opening for sun light Support roof and add facade Create massing setback from street and park programme planning
DESIGN PROCESS
FLOOR PLANS PARK VIEW 1 1 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1. AQUATIC AREA 2. OFFICE 3. CHANGE ROOM 4. LOBBY 5. CAFE/LIBRARY 6. BASKETBALL COURT 7. SKATING RINK 1. MULTI-PURPOSE ROOMS 2. GYM 3. LIBRARY Ground floor plan Second floor plan
AQUATIC AREA RENDER
WEST SECTION
BASKETBALL COURT RENDER
SOUTH SECTION
SUN DIAGRAM FRONT ENTRANCE RENDER
NORTH RENDER
