JOHN BENNER C. (647)-278-0339 E. john.benner@ryerson.ca
EDUCATION
PROJECTS AND INSTALLATIONS
Bachelor of Architectural Science Ryerson University Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Design Co-Lead ParkletTO Toronto, Ontario
09/2014 - Present
AFFILIATIONS 05/2016 - 05/2017
ARC SOC Project Associate
Maintain and support ongoing external projects under ARC SOC
09/2016 - 06/2017
AIAS Mentorship Program Mentor
Mentoring a first-year Ryerson Architectural Science Undergraduate Candidate over the course of a school year
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 05/2017 - 08/2018
Architectural Designer Montgomery Sisam Architects Inc. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead Revit model operator for the George Street Revitalization Project in Toronto. Assisted project team with the delivery of the PSOS package for the City of Toronto and contributed to work-flow efficiency through Dynamo scripting.
10/2016 - 04/2017
Research Assistant Ryerson University Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Assisted Professor Jennifer McArthur by collecting and assessing BI data through Revit and Dynamo, and developed graphical presentation for a live building data stream software focusing on Smart Cities and Smart Buildings research for Arup
05/2016 - 08/2016
Construction Project Coordinator BOLT Developments Inc. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Managed the coordination of small residential construction projects under direction of principle developers and interior designers
06/2015 - 10/2015
07/2016
Designing and fabricating a gathering space that extends from the side walk onto the street, located on Yonge and Elm Street.
07/2016
Design Co-Lead Hale Coffee Production Facility Toronto, Ontario
Designed and fabricated the interior space of a shared coffee production facility and coffee lounge
06/2016
Design Team Canstruction Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
Design and assembly of charity art display comprising of food donated cans
06/2016
Design Team Luminato Hearn Generating Station, Toronto, Ontario
With the collaboration of Omar Ghandi, the conceptual future design of the Hearn Generating Station being integrated with Toronto’s urban infrastructure
ACHIEVEMENTS 05/2017
Andy Kesteloo Memorial Award Second Place Canada Green Building Council Vancouver, British Columbia 06/2016
Hale Coffee Production Facility Top Ten Best New Interiors BlogTO Toronto, Ontario 06/2016
Toronto Canstruction 2016 People’s Choice Award Canstruction Toronto Toronto, Ontario 09/2015
Developer Assistant BSIX CORP Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Timber Fever Design-Build Challenge Third Place Moses Structural Engineers Toronto, Ontario
07/2015 - 09/2015
SSEF Architecture Competition Top Ten Finalists Steel Structures Education Foundation Toronto, Ontario
Designed preliminary site plans and renders for the development of the Odyssey Sports Centre for Seaside California University
Construction Laborer Douglas Reid Renovations Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Assisted in the construction and demolition process of residential buildings
PUBLISHED WORK Parklet TO Toronto, Ontario 07/2016
ArchDaily 09/2016
EDIT: Expo for Design, Innovation & Technology
05/2015
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY Rhinoceros 5.0 T-Splines Grasshopper - LadyBug - HoneyBee - KUKAlprc v2 Sketchup Pro VRay Rendering
Revit 2018 Dynamo 2018 AutoCAD 2018 Photoshop 2018 Illustrator 2018 InDesign 2018 Microsoft Office Bluebeam Revu
TABLE OF CONTENTS 01 TORONTO SCRAP STEEL ART MUSEUM Pier 27, Toronto, Ontario
Design Studio II 07/12/2015
07 NEXUS
Don River, Toronto, Ontario
SSEF Architecture Competition 22/05/2015
13 PRESENCE Iceland
Iceland Trekking Cabins Competition 17/08/2016
19 HALE COFFEE PRODUCTION FACILITY 1485 Dupont St, Toronto, Ontario Interior Design Project In Progress
25 TORONTO PARKLET
54 Parliament Street, Toronto, Ontario City of Toronto 05/12/2016
CANADIAN MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PHASE I
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54 Parliament Street, Toronto, Ontario Integration Studio 05/12/2016
CANADIAN MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PHASE II 54 Parliament Street, Toronto, Ontario Integration Studio 05/12/2016
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Toronto Scrap Steel Art Museum
TORONTO SCRAP STEEL ART MUSEUM Location: Pier 27, Toronto, Ontario Course: Design Studio II Completion: 07/12/2015
The Toronto Scrap Steel Art Museum exemplifies the tectonic principles of scrap steel art, and the processes involved in fabricating the art form. The museum is a dual art exhibition center as well as a private residence for selected artist to reside and fabricate art work to be displayed. The museum proposes that select artist who work with scrap steel as an art medium can temporarily stay while they design and develop works that will be displayed within the museum.
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01. ANALYSIS OF CONTEXT FORM
02. DIRECT VIEWS ON SITE
03. ELEVATION OF SCULPTURE GARDENS
04. CIRCULATION
05. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
06. IMMEDIATE CIRCULATION
Pier 27 is an expanding residential site at the heart of Toronto’s harbourfront. Contrasting from its historical typology as a docking station in the 1900’s, the site has grown into a series of developing condominiums that create a stark identity in comparison to the surrounding context. The analysis provided takes into consideration site parameters that the proposed Toronto Scrap Steel Art Museum has to meet. 02
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First Floor 960m2 1. Entrance 2. Reception 3. Retail
4. Cafe 5. Feature Stair 6. Elevator 7. Washroom
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8. General Storage (Sm) 9. Fire Stair 10. Fabrication 11. Fabrication Storage 4m 0m
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12. Waste Storage 13. Electrical Room 14. Mechanical Room 15. Service Elevator 16m
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EXTERIOR SCULPTURE GARDEN
Research was focused on the art of scrap steel. As a unique median relative to many traditional art forms, steel scrap art takes its form through the many components that comprise its whole. Each piece has intrinsic value to the totality of the entire work. The exploration of this ideal became the driving force for defining the building’s program and orientation. Like steel art, the museum becomes a series of modular bays that take shape of the entire building. Each bay becomes its own individual type of program, with some bays intersecting, forming a larger program. 04
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Level 6 21,500
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Exterior Sculpture Garden
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NEXUS
Location: Don River, Toronto, Ontario
Competition: SSEF Architecture Competition 2015 Top Ten Finalists Members: Adrian Chiu, Erik Aquino Completion: 22/05/2015
The term recycle is not only limited to the notion of waste management. As the theme for the SSEF 2015 Architecture Competition, the term recycle was assessed in a more architectonic manner that sought to answer how space can be recycled, while also contributing a environmentally sustainable initiative. Nexus is created through the formation of public space under the Prince Edward Viaduct, whilst also becoming a filter for garbage running downstream of the Don Valley River.
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Toronto’s rivers are prone to fluctuating water levels, accumulating from extreme precipitation as well as melting snow. With these unpredictable accumulations of water, rivers can vary from a minimum water levels to flooding. As a repercussion, garbage becomes swept into the water and distributed along the river. The Don River deals with the condition of garbage as it connects from several of bodies of water up north, and empties into Lake Ontario. 08
South-East Perspective on Shore
Seating Space
Three seating spaces were designed along the path of travel. These spaces are recessed into the floor to allow a closer connection with the water below. 09
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The steel assembly is supported by a series of steel pontoons along the hollow AESS. As water levels fluctuate, the bridge can respond accordingly; allowing for continuous use during time of in-climate weather. 11
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PRESENCE Location: Iceland
Competition: Iceland Trekking Cabins Competition Members: Katherine Krolak, Daniel Howell, Alan Guildmen Completion: 17/08/2016
Iceland’s landscape is not only unique and extraordinary, but features a diverse variety of geographies; from vast open plains, expansive fjords, and coastal cliffs, to ancient glaciers and active volcanoes and lava fields. It stands apart from other Nordic landscapes as an idyllic destination for hikers, and trekkers. The challenge of the propellers design was to develop a trekking cabin for an environment that is as varied as it is isolated, while at the same time drawing inspiration from Iceland’s rich architectural and cultural heritage, with the ultimate goal of developing a structure that would be safe, secure, and comfortable and an architectural expression that would stand out as an icon of Iceland’s active outdoor lifestyle; a beacon that encourages all those who dare to take on the challenges that the rich landscape has to offer. 13
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Flexibility of context became one of many focal points during the design phase of the project. With such diverse terrain throughout the landscape, the building had to be elevated from the ground plane, allowing the structure to be assembled in any topographic condition.
GATHERING SPACE Communal building with shared amenities saves space and creates a hub for fellow travelers to gather
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INTEGRATION WITH CONTEXT Low sloped roof rising from the Earth allows the hut to act as an extension of the landscape
MODULES Modular pods are inserted in the roof to accentuate the presence of trekkers on the landscape
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The design is simple in form, but sensuous in materiality. Easily constructed off-site, the structure is brought together on-site as a series of modules that would create a whole. The cabin consists of three main pre-fabricated components: sleeping pods, interior amenities, and the main living structure. Each are unique in their materiality, and when combined, develop and articulate a form which is modern in technology, material, and construction, while still being reminiscent of Ireland’s typological heritage. 16
Interior Perspective
Exterior Sleeping Pod
The sleeping pods are designed to comfortably sleep two, and are constructed of a steel structure clad in warm wood on the interior, and brass paneling on the exterior. The brass panels will develop a rich patina over time, which will contrast the materiality of the surrounding structure, while still complimenting the overall weathered appearance we desired to achieve over the lifetime of the design. Earth-concrete tiles overlap and envelope the entirety of the main living structure. These tiles were developed to utilize earthen aggregates from each specific site the cabins would be placed in, therefore taking on the unique characters of the colours and textures inherent to each site the design is placed in. Areas where local soils are used as the aggregate will sprout grasses, mosses, and lichens over time and create an expression that is integrated into the landscape as if it had been there from the beginning of time. 17
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HALE COFFEE PRODUCTION FACILITY Location: 1485 Dupont Street, Toronto, Ontario
Project Type: Interior Design Members: John Zhang, Matthew Lau, Gregorio Jimenez, Liam Hall, Adrian Chiu, Stephen Jones Client: Hale Coffee Company Project Advisor: Vincent Hui Completion: 01/03/2016
Hale Coffee Production Facility offers the clients a dual coffee production facility and coffee lounge area. The production space is created as a display to engage customers to the experience of coffee bean roasting. The client proposed to the design team to create unity with the conditions of the bar, ceiling and feature wall. What results is an open modular form that expands from the feature wall and flows dynamically along the ceiling, enclosing the vertically expansive ceiling whilst accommodating for direct access to the plumbing above. Throughout the form, certain modules have specified programming; that of hanging acrylic light boxes, and shelving units.
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1. Ceiling 2. Pipes 3. Modular Installation 4. Lighting Units 5. Customer Seating 6. Barista 7. Coffee Roasting and Production 8. Multipurpose Space
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1.5� profiles are cut into dimensional vertical members ranging from 390mm to 790mm. All modules are constructed to maintain a overall massing of 390mmx390mmx390mm that ungulate according to the parameters of above pipes. The ceiling fixture forms an extension of the feature wall that grows and expands along the ceiling, bringing continuity to the overall site. 23
Entryway Perspective
Barista Perspective
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ParkletTO
Location: 17 Elm Street, Toronto, Ontario
Partnership: Ryerson University, City of Toronto and DYBIA Members: Joana Benin, Jason Glionna, Gregorio Jimenez, Marissa Liu, Tess Macpherson, Diana Sobaszek Completion: 06/16/2017
As Toronto continues to transform, so too has its streets. Increased demand for pedestrian-friendly neighbourhoods has sparked the creativity of urban designers to think outside the box. As a result, spaces that have traditionally been allotted solely for automobile parking can now take on a whole new life. One approach that has increasingly grown in popularity is that of a parklet: a public amenity that incorporates seating to act as an extension of the sidewalk. ParkletTO represents the one of the first times design and function have successfully come together on the streets of Toronto. Featuring Accoya wood, the parklet undulates in a graceful manner from end to end. Accoya was chosen due
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to its ability to repel water, along with its strength and stylish grain. In order to achieve this natural undulation, each piece of wood was rounded in a concave or convex manner and then attached side-by-side to form layers. ParkletTO fits in perfectly on vibrant Elm Street, unifying diverse buildings through an urban oasis. Through the use of LEDs, ParkletTO maintains its lively and dynamic feel at night, encouraging evening usage.
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01 MASSING
T-Spline surfaces are used to generate a massing of form.
02 EXTRACTED LINES
Lines are extracted from the edges of the massing to generate reference curves.
03 PLANE
A single planar surface extends to the depth of the massing.
04 PLANES ARRAYED
The planes are arrayed at a distance of 35mm from each other. This creates a point of intersection between the two surfaces that replicates the width of the Accoya wood.
05 INTERSECTION POINTS
Points are generated where the surfaces intersects with the line. These are generated in an order that is consistent with how the wood is positioned in the design.
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Curves connect the points in order of assembly for the wood.
07 CURVES EXTRUDED
Curves are extruded along the previously generated lines. These extrusions rotate in order of whole members, to half members of accoya. This technique is used to save material usage by 25%.
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A = Start/Left Cap B = Small Curve C = Flexible D = Large Curve E = End/Right Cap F = Pod
During the design phase of the project, the amount of parking spaces that were intended to be used was not disclosed. Because of this, the design needed to provide felaxbility in the amount of parking spaces used, as well as its configuration of modules. 29
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Corner Detail Close-up
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CANADIAN URBAN MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PHASE I Location: 54 Parliament Street, Toronto, Ontario Course: Integration Studio I Completion: 05/12/2016
The Canadian Urban Multicultural Centre stems its conception from the fundamentals of multiculturalism, the coming together of identities. The building resonates this idea through the space acting as a central node within its contextual realm, and seeks to draw spatial elements in from the site to the internal area. The idea is further intensified with the use of the atrium space as a perceptual and physical connection to the interior program, an additional entity that acts as an extension of the first floor programs.
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01. IDENTIFYING CONTEXTUAL NODES
05. INTEGRATION OF PARLIAMENT PARK
02. FOCUS OF AXISES
06. LANDSCAPE MODIFICATION
03. PERPENDICULAR RESPONSE TO ESPLANADE CORRIDOR
07. CONNECTION NORTH CIRCULATION
04. PERPENDICULAR RESPONSE TO DISTILLERY DISTRICT
08. CONCLUDED MASSING
The building’s intent becomes series of gestures that the correlate to its direct form. As a response to many of the contextual axises present on site, the building reacts by creating a perpendicular facade that visually connects the internal program to the site. In addition, elements from the site are also integrated within the building itself, further accentuating the extension and drawing in of spatial nodes. 32
The use of Glulam resonates a tectonic sensation through its connection with the adjacent park. Due to building restrictions, the glulam was created as a finish to the building, and not an actual structure. 33
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5. Elevator 6. Federal Consulting Office 7. Senior Walk-in Centre 8. Daycare
9. Reception 10. Community Centre Office 11. Multipurpose Space 12. Community Centre Gym
13. Garbage Room 14. Storage Room 15. Shipping & Receiving 16. Mechanical Room
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CANADIAN URBAN MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PHASE II Location: 54 Parliament Street, Toronto, Ontario Course: Integration Studio II Member: Jack Hache Completion: 04/17/2017
The Canadian Urban Multicultural Centre (Phase II) focuses on the expression of cultural art and performance. The main gallery space lifts and folds accordingly to the program while creating a central area that houses a direct performance area. Galleries are divided by floor and revolve around the central performance area, which are spatially divided by steel structural fins that mechanically open and close during times of such performance.
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01. FORM SEPARATION TO CREATE SKYLIGHT
03. LIGHT-WELL INTEGRATION
04. DEPTH OF ENVELOPE PROVIDING SHADE
02. ENVELOPE INTERIOR ACCENTUATE MATERIALITY
05. FORM CREATING ART-DISPLAY PODIUMS
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Steel profiles support the cement fiber board panels that ungulate across the form. The rigidity of the panels creates a more stark contrast with light and shadow on the exterior, rather than a soft gradient from a smoother form. The steel profiles are either erected from grade, supported by steel mullions, or hang off of the concealed concrete framework.
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