PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE 0 3:

April 2018

Graduate Architectural Design Studio 4: Comprehensive Building Project (with partners Josh Silver & Robert Lee) julianchusnider.com/portfolio/photoarchive

This Comprehensive Building Project proposes a new home for Toronto’s photographic archive, a collection of one million photographs dating back to 1856. The building’s form is an impenetrable opaque box located at a chaotic and messy urban intersection, an exoskeleton pierced only by natural elements: rays of sun and green space on the north end of the building, revealing a soft white interior –the blank slate on which Toronto’s photographic history is displayed and preserved.

The facade treatments vary depending on their urban adjacencies, and their textural quality was derived from material explorations at a range of scales. The design was further enriched through explorations into the building’s architectonic, structural, and environmental performance.